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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1932
Page
2
The Palace theatre presents Max Schmeling’s Love in the Ring and William Powell in Man of the World starting Monday. Carole Lombard stars in the latter as a glamorous femme fatale amid a tale of blackmail and high society, with Powell as a Paris gossip editor.
At the Winchester motion picture houses, previews advance and reviews frame future and current bookings. The listings note forthcoming releases and showtimes across local theatres.
Warner Bros Colonial Theatre offered Galloping Thru featuring ace Western star Ty Tyler with breathless suspense from opening to last scene. The Tip Off arrives Monday featuring Eddie Quillan and Robert Armstrong in a fast moving drama about a radio repairman helping a girl entangled with a dangerous hoodlum.
The first record of a plague of insects is the Exodus account describing locusts sweeping across Egypt eating every herb and fruit and leaving no green vegetation in the land.
At the Capitol Theatre tonight and yesterday audience notes a double bill featuring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell in a romantic musical and the film The Cheat with Tallulah Bankhead and Irving Pichel. The show includes six Gershwin tunes and the highlight Somebody From Somewhere. The Cheat follows a wife drawn into intrigue over flirtation and gambling debts leading to a court exposure.
The text notes the Americas hold the world’s greatest drainage system with the Amazon discharging vast water amounts and the Mississippi surpassing Asia’s rivers. It also recalls Pliny’s claim quinces were ornamental like palms in Caesar era Rome and valued for health and pleasure. A child questions cows chewing cud as if gum for cows were expensive.
Pinckett Eray scored two touchdowns as Southern California defeated Tulane 21 to 12 in Pasadena. The win gave USC its third Rose Bowl triumph, while Tulane made its first appearance and fought hard, but fell short to a better team.
Ten yards total were gained by the All-West team against the All-East in San Francisco. The East amassed 138 rushing yards and eight first downs to one for the West, aided by penalties. East punts averaged 36 yards on 12 attempts while West punts averaged 35 yards on 14.
A Washington Star aphorism notes the peril when aiding a person with a grievance who may turn the tool he wields on others. The piece uses a sharp analogy about handling grievances and consequences.
The line reflects a personal philosophy of prioritizing one s own pleasures while concealing troubles to avoid burdening others. It underscores self restraint in expressing hardship.
By virtue of an execution in the case K. W. Adams versus H. R. Triplett I will offer for sale in front of the County Court House in Winchester Virginia on Monday December 21 at 10 oclock the following property One Plymouth Sedan aes 1930 model Terms A J Wigginton Deputy Sheriff This sale postponed to Monday January 4 1932.
A large throng attended the funeral of George H. Edwards of Cross Junction who was laid to rest at Mount Hebron Cemetery after services at his home. Rev. Sewell J. Goode led the rites. Pallbearers were six nephews: A T Braithwaite Gray Max Paul Eugene Braithwaite and William Baker. He is survived by his widow Clara Braithwaite three sons Erle Harold and Raymond a half sister Mrs Clara Eubanks and a brother.
The Virginia show yearbook lists 210 hunters with Cathode Ray owned by Miss Elizabeth Nesbit taking first honors. Cathode Ray earned 21 blue ribbons and five championships in 1931, with other top awards going to Chatter Play Oswegatchet Port Light Fortune Teller Love Token Anthony and Johnnie Walker. Queen of Sheba the Stanley Green pony led the year’s ponies, Frosty trailing.
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