Sharpe Reflections on Presidents and National Identity
A Sharpe column muses on historic leaders from Cal Coolidge to Hoover and Stalin, noting promises balanced by deficits and the costs of bad times. It pivots to language, nationality, and American citizenship, urging pride in being United States citizens over ancestral labels. The piece closes with reflections on printing a newspaper roll and a call to embrace Yankee American identity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cal Coolidge
Stalin
Russia
United States
America
Theatres Listings Highlight Fall Movie Lineup at Local Theatres
At Royal Theatre Fulton Dick Foran with his horse Silver stars in Devil's Saddle Legion with Beverly Roberts in Expensive Husbands as co feature. Sundays through Tuesdays offer Ebb Tide starring Frances Farmer, and Pennies From Heaven with Edith Fellows. Rialto Clinton presents The Hurricane with a star lineup. Majestic Mt. Carroll shows I Met My Love Again tonight and Partners of the Plain this weekend plus The Goldwyn Follies. Doctor jokes about twins to a father closes the page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Theatre
Fulton
Dick Foran
Devil's Saddle Legion
Beverly Roberts
Robert Louis Stevenson
Frances Farmer
Edith Fellows
Miss Roughneck
Claudette Colbert
Charles Boyer
Majestic Theatre
Mt. Carroll
Joan Bennett
Henry Fonda
the Majestic
William Boyd
Cassidy
Screen
Partners of the Plain
Majestic
Adolph Menjou
The
Ritz Bros
Zorina
Kenny Baker
Charlie McCarthy
Cornel College Opens Arm strong Hall of Fine Arts
Cornell College will formally open Arm strong Hall of Fine Arts with art rooms for music drama and art. The building houses a 408 seat theatre with lighting pit and radio rooms plus a large exhibition hall and studios for piano voice violin and painting. Noted guests include Grant Wood Edmund Gienbert and Thomas Hart Benton. The project includes a fine arts library and a memorial room for Mrs Arm strong funded by a $160 000 bequest from Blanche Swingley Arm strong.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armrong Hall of Fine Arts
Cornell College
America
Cornell
Grant Wood
Edmund Gienbert
Chicago Art Institute
Thomas Hart Benson
Missouri
Iowa
Jacques Jolas
Helen Venn
Steinway
Carnegie Corporation
Department of Speech and Dramatic Art
Fine Arts
Conservatory of Music
Starting the Day Right with a Good Breakfast Routine
Guidance urges calm morning pacing for children to ensure a proper breakfast. Parents should allot an hour between waking and departure, rising earlier if appetite is low, and include fruit hot cereal egg toast and milk or coffee for adults. Aimed at schoolchildren, it links breakfast quality to mental progress.
Woolgathering Ned and the Scotchman's Vacation
A brief humor strip exchange features Ned asking about a motor vacation and Ted replying he stayed home, letting his mind wander. The cartoon captures a lighthearted take on travel and imagination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ned
Ted
Also Mentioned on This Page
Sharpe
Jimmy Walker
New York
Herbert Hoover
Mint
Mercury Books
American Mercury America
Better Newstands of America
Hemingway
Faulkner
Saturday Review of Literature
C. O. McIntyre
American Mercury
Lexington Ave
Company K
American Mercury Books
Rialto Theatre
Clinton
Dorothy Lamour
Jon Hall
Mary Astor
C. Aubrey Smith
Thomas Mitchell
Raymond Massey
John Carradine
Jerome Cowan
Pacific
Samuel Goldwyn
Mr. Cross
Department OF Music and Arts
Webster Bros., Inc
Thomson, Ill
Francke and Switzer Hardware Store
Thomson, Illinois
Fidelity
Life Association
Fidelity Life Association
Illinois State Insurance Department
Fulton, Illinois
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