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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1929
Page
6
Verna Bickel celebrated her twelfth birthday at home with 12 friends, Christmas decor, a tree, games, and a two course luncheon. Ada Maxine Harding made a little doll place favor for each plate.
The group shares Royal Pudding Fruit Drop Cakes and Dressing For Fowls recipes. Royal Pudding uses strawberry gelatin cream and crushed royal sprays with cherries and nuts. Fruit Drop Cakes mix raisins dates currants with spices, bake twenty minutes in moderate oven. Dressing for fowls suggests crumbled brown bread and oysters with butter for fluffy, flavorful results.
A lively all dialogue musical star Alice White in The Girl From Woolworths at Fox theatre with a Vivaphone chorus. Songs like Someone You Baby Me I ll Baby You Crying For Love are popular hits by Meyer and Bryan with Tap Tap Thompson providing star comic timing. Kane delivers three numbers in her famed doopa doopa doop style.
Nancy Carroll, Paramount's romantic singing dancer, stars in Sweetie at the Graham theatre Christmas day. The play revue blends youth and pop with stage and screen elements and follows Carroll’s chorus girl character who falls for a prep schoolboy as Jack Oakie rises as a noted vaudeville alumnus in this entertainment.
Crawfordsville reports a fatal accident claiming the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Roth. Mrs Roth, an 1899 high school graduate, left behind many friends and sorrowful relatives including her father Mr Murphy. Local residents and relatives from Iowa and Illinois return home for the holidays.
Despite censorship, theaters drew large crowds and many first time visitors. Film studios produced historically significant works. Scientific institutions conducted research in many branches of knowledge.
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