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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1931
Page
2
The Winchester motion picture houses present advances and reviews of upcoming and current bookings. Highlights cover new releases, audience reactions, and schedule notes across local venues.
Warner Bros presents Local Boy Makes Good starring Joe E Brown at Capitol Theatre as a First National comedy drama. The film avoids slapstick and follows a shy college student clerking in a bookstore who writes unseen love letters, sparking a mistaken hero narrative at an intercollegiate track meet.
URG Canterbury notes from Virginia list visits and relocations. Broaddus Welch of White Post spent Sunday with Mrs. Stelle Madigan. Mr and Mrs Paul Painter of Washington shared Thanksgiving with locals. F L Dovell and son Edward vacationed in Washington. Mrs Carter near here moves to Edward Jackson’s Refuge property. Mrs Carrie Hudson travels to Charles Town for winter with son Harry Hudson. Mrs De Rowland and son McClure spent a few days in
M G M presents a talkie version of the Broadway hit Flying High with Charlotte Greenwood as a flirtatious waitress and Bert Lahr as the would be aviator husband. The comedy features an aviation show aboard a novel aerocopter aircraft shown on a large airport set with a spoof romance driving the laughs.
Martinsburg and Winchester a Monday afternoon shopping trip by Mrs J F Mar and Mr and Mrs L W Painter is noted. Mr Lawrence Orndorff ill with pneumonia shows slow improvement. Saturday night visitors at the Rowland home include Mrs Clyde Hitt and two daughters Audrey and Doris and Mr and Mrs George Joy and two children Billy and Frances of Baltimore. Mr and Mrs Harry Cave visited L J Cave on Sunday. Grace DeHaven spent Sunday with sisters Miss Nellie and Mae Painter. Dalton Rowland called on W R Carper near Berryville Sunday evening.
Daily rainfall to 8 am shows none in past 24 hours and none to date for December. Measurements compare 1931 rainfall over similar months with 18 year totals for January through November and show varying totals, including 7.20 inches in June 1931 and 3.82 inches in March. First 12 months of 1930 list monthly inches.
One hundred four transients sought shelter at police headquarters in November. Shenandoah Valley Academy and Handley High School gridmen prepare for a charity game Friday. Henry Mitchell, son of Mr and Mrs R G Mitchell of Boyce Clarke county, earns a football monogram at Episcopal High School.
Eight Handley High School units join the local militia on strike duty in Danville Virginia. The students report to duty in the mill district as part of security operations amid ongoing labor actions.
The article reports that York Imperial apples on the British market are in excess supply. A crypt to Lord Fairfax at Christ Episcopal Church will be dedicated Friday night. Judge Philip Williams becomes president of Winchester Kiwanis Club for the coming year.
Thirteen lines recall December 2 1916 when President Wilson was to authorize General Pershing to pursue Villa with American forces. Other notes include Dr M Roszel addressing school leaders on military training in schools. John T Noonan resigns from local police to join Adams Express. Nannie M Zirkle resigns from The Star to move to California.
Miss Maude Wright returned to Washington after Thanksgiving with her parents in Middletown. Teachers Miss Virginia Grantham and Miss Frances traveled via Roanoke to visit relatives and a student sister. Several residents, including Misses Martha Reely Lelie Ludwig and Mrs. G W Ropp, spent the holiday at home or with kin. others plan a December 5 window sale.
Frances Kern and Mrs F Estes' son visitations are noted as they return to Baltimore Sunday afternoon. Miss Peyton joins her parents in Warsaw for Thanksgiving. Elmer Pingley, recently in a Colorado sanitarium, returns home improved. Miss Clarissa Woodward visits friends at Armel.
John W. Heisman says rising fan demand for fiercer action drives more injuries and deaths in football. The former coach and creator of several strategies, now athletic director of the Downtown Athletic Club in New York, remains deeply concerned yet fond of the game.
A queer government pledges to thaw frozen assets yet offers nothing to a man in need of a new overcoat. The description frames bureaucratic inaction as a contradiction between lofty promises and basic personal support.
The note describes Mr Gandhi ready to return to India without achieving freedom. It suggests his time in England did not reveal the kind of freedom he sought and hints at ongoing struggle ahead.
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