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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Dec 17, 1936

Page

5

League A Bowelers Set To Compete In Sweepstakes

League A bowlers will compete at 7 45 tonight for sweepstakes prizes offered by Jack Zimmerman Health Center. Awards go to players posting the highest score above their averages. James B Yates, league statistician, reports P Glaize tops with 111 3 and Babb close behind at 110 2.

Jack Zimmerman James B. Yates P. Glaize Babb Electricians

Budget changes show large increases across city departments

The proposed 1937 budget outlines substantial hikes from 1936 in streets water and sewer police and administration costs. Increases include 1937 street budgets for paving and lighting, water survey and new construction, police staffing, and several department line items, while some areas like joint city county and miscellaneous appropriations are reduced.

Water Department Council Chamber Allon

Ann Sothern In Black Crepe Ensemble

Ann Sothern wears a black crepe ensemble featuring a turtle neck, double pearl strand, pleated peplum and flare skirt. A padded shoulder cape with front back and side pleats creates a rippling line while cog feathers and a black felt dab form her tiny turban hat.

Ann Sothern Miss Sothern Ann

Powell Refuses Stunt Double In One Way Passage

William Powell insists on performing his own stunts in One Way Passage at the Capitol, despite industry practice of using doubles. He has repeatedly risked danger for authentic action, despite studio chagrin.

Powell Studio William Powell

Tol Theatre Cast as Kay Francis Reunites in Film

Kay Francis returns to star with Aline MacMahon Frank McHugh Warren Hymer Mundin and Douglas Gerard in the Tol Theatre production. The ensemble supports a principal performance likely to draw current theater audiences.

Tol Theatre Kay Francis Aline MacMahon Frank McHugh Warren Hymer Mundin Douglas Gerrard

Western woman divorces fourth husband barber

A Western woman has just divorced her fourth husband, and each husband was a barber. The report notes the sequence of marriages ending in divorce.

Washington Post

Leache Named President of Virginia County Supervisors

Roanoke December 16 C J Leache of Pulaski county was elected president of the League of Virginia counties in a final session of a two day meeting attended by about 100 county supervisors and officials. The group adopted pay as you go highway policy, urged state audits of county books, rural sanitation, and free textbooks for public schools. Nine vice presidents were chosen for the executive committee to pursue Rockefeller funding through the Spellman fund for county government research.

Roanoke C. J. Leache Pulaski County League of Virginia League Rockefeller Spellman Fund

Palace Theatres Presents The Girl on the Front Page Last Night

Edmund Lowe and Gloria Stuart star in The Girl on the Front Page at the Palace Theatre for the last times tonight. A Fox News reel and Bashful Buddies accompany the feature with Devil On Horseback billed for Friday starring Lili Damita and Fred Keating in an all color production.

Edmund Lowe Gloria Stuart Palace Theatre Will Fox News Devil On the Palace Lili Damita Errol Flynn Fred Keating

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