Hollywood Stars Parade At Screen Actors Ball
Hollywood celebrated the Screen Actors Guild first gala with stars parading in the gold room at a Los Angeles hotel. Ann Harding Joan Crawford and others watched Ted Healy Jeanette MacDonald and Billie Burke perform while a $25 supper preceded a star packed evening of music dance and vaudeville.
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Screen Actors’ Guild
Guild
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Academy of Motion Picture, Arts and Sciences
Academy
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Ann Harding
Staudette Colbert
Joan Crawford
Thelma Todd
Pat O’brien
Adolphe Minton
Billie Burke
Robert Montemery
Hollywood “Hall of Fame
Hollywood Stars Shine In A Rib-Tickling Program
The program featured Pert Kelton mimicking Charlie Chaplin without a costume aside from a thick mustache. Rudy Vallee was absent. Dick Powell hosted in Pittsburgh. Bing Crosby Charlie Butterworth and Frank McHugh imitated the Boswell Sisters to draw laughs.
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Hollywood
Pert Kelton
Charlie Chaplin
Rudy Vallee
Dick Powell
Pittsburgh
Bing Crosby
Charlie Butterworth
Frank McHugh
Boswell Sisters
Spickler Letter Details Local Visits and Death Notice
Jan 11 SPickler notes Mrs Grover Forsythe ill since Saturday with slight improvement. Visits include Bessie McCauley family and Geo Martz of Williamsport. Several locals and out of town guests frequent Forsythe home. Carrie Rebecca Schnebly buried at St Pauls. long involved in church and school teaching. Funeral led by Rev Huffman and Rev Miller.
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Lloyd Shank
Lydia Rowland
Clearspring
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Melchora Cowden
Helen
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Clyde Daugherty
Merle Cowden
Funkstown
Carrie Rebecca Schnebly
Edmund Schnebly
Broadfording
St. Paul’s Cemetery
J. Wade Huffman
A. B. Miller
Brethren Church of
Daily Vacation Bible School
Milton Forsythe Dry Run
R. E. Burgan
Walnut Point
Frush
Hollywood Gossip Roundup of Cast Talks and Studio Romances
Hollywood reports on M G M negotiating with Austria over Reunior in Vienna starring John Barrymore and Diana Wynyard, with a pledge to cut scenes to avoid offense. Carole Lombard wins a lead in Twentieth Century with Barrymore at Columbia and may work with Bing Crosby on Were Not Dressing. Screen Actors Guild plans a big ball at the Biltmore amid studio pressure. Marian Cooper returns as production chief of Radio studios and aims to prepare twenty eight pictures. Random notes mention Virginia Cherrill and David Manners in England, Grace Moore at Columbia, Lewis Stone aboard a new boat, Andy Lawlor in Rip Tide, and Talullah Bankhead rumored to return, plus a musical fugue definition.
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Canf
Reunior
Vienna
John Barrymore
Diana Wynyard
Carole Lombard
Columbia
Paramount
Carole
Bing Crosby
Peter Anna
Marian Cooper
Marian
Cooper
Radio Studios
Dorothy Jordan
Virginia Cherrill
David Manners
England
Grace Moore
Desert
Lewis Stone
Andy Lawlor
Norms Shearer
Artire
Warner Studios
Donald Woods
Sam Raphaelon
Merry Widow
Lubitsch
Talullah Bankhead
First Aid Courses Planned for CWA Workers
A five session first aid training program for about 40 to 50 city and county CWA workers begins Monday January 22. Local doctors will teach at the Y M C A and State Armory with one trainee per project in both city and county to receive certificates and first aid kits. The effort is a Maryland step with 17 stations and safety supervisors appointed. Payroll totals and project figures are noted by J Stewart Miller. A second item reports J Reed Lane resigning as assistant deputy NRA administrator to become executive secretary of the national code authority for the motor vehicle trade.
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Park W. T. Loy
Harry Greenstein
Maryland
National Red Cross Association
State Armory
J. Stewart Miller
New York
J Reed Lane
NRA
National Code Authority of the Motor Vehicle Rade
J. B. Hulett
New York Area
Kay Francis Stars in The House on 58th St at Maryland
Kay Francis opens at the Maryland Theatre in Warner Bros latest drama The House on 58th St based on a Joseph Santley novel. Francis portrays a beautiful Broadway chorus girl whose romance and tragedy test her dramatic range alongside Ricardo Cortez Gene Raymond John Halliday and Margaret.
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Kay Francis
Maryland Theatre Today
Warner Bros
Joseph Santley
Miss Francis
Ricardo Cortez
Gene Raymond
John Halliday
Margaret
Travaganza Introduces Two New Song Hits
The magazine features two fresh songs by Benny Davis and James Hanley, highlighting their new hits. The showcase promises catchy melodies and performance flair from the duo.
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Benny Davis
James Hanley
Curiosity at Pred Flints farm in Braintree Va
A five shrep with grass growing on its back sits as a local oddity at Pred Flints farm in Braintree Virginia. The creature draws attention from neighbors and farm visitors alike as a rare sight among farm livestock.
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Pred Flint
Braintree
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