Movie heads hopeful for record in 1936 Hollywood
Hollywood forecasts 1936 will bring color films replacing white gray and black cinema and a shift in screen personas. Executives predict bigger spectacle productions like Captain Blood and The Good Earth, plus religious and educational pictures reaching a larger audience. Industry figures foresee Norma Shearer Gary Cooper Carole Lombard Mae West landmark changes and a possible billion dollar box office return.
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Hollywood
Mae West
Becky Sharp
Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Walter Wagner
Ernst Lubbitsch
Faramount
Gary Cooper
Peter Ibbetson
Norma Shearer
Carole Lombard
Siren
Edward Small
Blue Eye Color Development in Infants
The article notes most babies are born with blue eyes, but permanent color emerges in the first weeks. It discusses how eye color changes as pigment forms in the iris, leading to lasting eye coloration.
Burning Gold at Colonial on Wednesday
The Colonial Theatre will host an oil field drama titled Burning Gold featuring Bill Boyd as a fast moving action star. The venue will stay open New Year’s Day 1 to 11 pm with continuous screenings and regular matinee and evening prices.
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Bill Boyd
Warner Bros
Colonial Theatre
Colonial
Phobic Prisoner Says He's Cured at Fifty Nine
Madison Wisconsin December 30 William Ellery Leonard a professor and poet once confined to a five block radius of his home due to distance dread described himself Sunday as well man He said neurosis no longer worried him Since 1922 he had not ventured beyond Capitol Squares east side Recently he crossed the big square He has not entered new territory since The departure occurred in his fifty ninth year and in the sixth month of his marriage to Grace Golden a former pupil now 27 who pledged to be his constant companion
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Madison
Wis
William Ellery Leonard
University of Wisconsin
Capitol Square
Leonard
Grace Golden
Pittsville Man Listed Killed in World War I
Alfred Erickson of Pittsville Wisconsin learned recently that he had been listed as killed in action in the World War I records.
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Alfred Erickson
Pittsville
Wis
William E Carson Stalled In Storm On Skyline Drive
William E. Carson, former chairman of the Virginia Conservation and Development Commission, was found safe in his car near Luray after being stranded for more than six hours on Skyline Drive. He had been en route home from a dinner party in Winchester when he failed to appear, prompting a family search. Carson endured near zero temperatures but appeared to suffer no ill effects.
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Front Royal
William FE. Carson
Virginia Conservation and Development Commission
Skyline Drive
Luray
Carson
Riverton
Winchester
McDonald resigns as League refugee commissioner
James G. McDonald resigned as the League of Nations high commissioner for refugees from Germany. He urged the league to intercede with Germany to halt persecutions of Jews, calling the situation a challenge to mankind and a threat to international peace. He blamed Berlin for making relief efforts ineffective and cited Nazi edicts as the root of the drive.
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New York
James G. McDonald
League of Nations
Germany
League
McDonald
Liscom Case Dies at 65 in Hauptmann Trial T
Liscom C. Case, No 11 tutor at the Hauptmann trial in Flemington New Jersey, died of heart disease aged 65. The incident occurred December 29, with Case previously serving as a trial participant in the high-profile case.
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Flemington, N. J
Liscom C. Case
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Senator Proposes Cutting Of Relief Burden
Elllicott City Md Dec 30 Senator Joseph J DonovanHoward proposes relief costs be cut after sixty days Maryland should relieve state funds and have local units bear their burden The Legislature will meet in February for a special session to tackle relief and allied topics Donovan says a large reduction in relief statewide should be feasible if not total elimination
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State of
Maryland
Joseph J. Donovan
Howard
Donovan
Speaker Byrne Pushes Broad Defense Program
Speaker Byrne outlined a national defense push centered on expanding air power with an Alaska base and stronger Hawaiian fortifications. Burns, fresh from the Pacific, endorsed air power and existing authorizations while noting funding as the main hurdle and a potential rise in War and Navy Department spending. He suggested no new major bills, but affirmed the need to strengthen defenses in Alaska and Hawaii.
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Byrne
Burns
Pacific
House
Military and Naval Committees
Navy
War and Navy Department
Alaska
War Department
Hawaii
Mrs Marpel Hurt From Fall On Baltimore Dance Floor
Condition of Mrs W Lawrence Marpel of this city, injured in a peculiar accident on a Baltimore dance floor last Friday night, is a little improved. She has been brought to her home here. She struck the back of her head when both dancers lost balance while dancing with an employe of the Automobile Club of Maryland after the club’s annual sales meeting.
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Marpel
Baltimore
Roosevelt to personally stump for 1936 bid coast to coast
The New York Times reports President Roosevelt will personally campaign for his 1936 re election. No final plan on tour scope, but he will be urged to undertake a coast to coast drive as in 1932.
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New York
The
New York Times
Roosevelt
the Times
Shipmates Forever star shines in Flirtation Walk revival
Ross Alexander, seen bidding farewell to Martha Merrill, hits a high note in support of Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler in Flirtation Walk and repeats the feat in the Cosmopolitan production at the Academy Theatre.
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Ross Alexander
Martha Merrill
Dick Powell
Ruby Keeler
Academy Theatre
Kipling Turns 70 At His Sussex Home
Rudyard Kipling reaches his seventieth birthday today while living in Burwash on the Sussex Downs. He spends his days in the Moat and the Old World home, avoiding calls and keeping to himself after more than 25 years of solitude away from the world.
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Burwash
Sussex
Eng
Rudyard Kipling
Sussex Downs
House Damaged In Auto Accident In Chambersburg
Wilson Oliver of Chambersburg, 23, wrecked a street sign and damaged a house and his car in a crash at Church and Prosper streets early Sunday. He sideswiped a car then hit the western wall, car badly damaged. Oliver, convicted of reckless driving before Magistrate John Dunn, sentence deferred pending damages payment. Investigated by Patrok men Karn and Bikle.
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Wilson Oliver
Chambersburg
Church
Prospest
Oliver
Alre
Johnn Dunn
Patrok Men Karn
Bikle
Wood alcohol harms blood vessels in retina
Wood alcohol affects blood vessels causing hemorrhages and rupture of tiny retinal arteries, often leading to loss of sight.
New Dodge Unveils Low Prices and Big Economy
New Dodge cars offer prices near the factory base and total savings beyond first cost. Owners report gas mileage from 18 to 24 miles per gallon with oil savings up to 20 percent. The car is praised for style and beauty and is marketed as the most beautiful Dodge in history. See the economy test and drive to find the savings per mile.
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Detroit
Dodge
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