Hollywood Star System Upset by Donlevy Dominance
Hollywood column notes P Brian Donlevy dominates Beau Geste as the real star while Gary Cooper Ray Pland and Robert Preston receive top billing. The piece criticizes studio marketing and praises Donlevy's performance as central to the film's impact.
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Hollywood
Paramount
Beau Geste
Gary Cooper
Ray Pland
Robert Preston
Yes
Brian Donlevy
Srgeant Warkoff
Cooper
Island
Preston
Themre
Donlevy
Holme Od
Mand Jane Public
Quizbook Q and A on travel and history
The page presents trivia and answers on topics from travel spending by Americans and foreign visitors in 1938 to mahogany in The Mahogany Book and details about Babbitt Town near Pittsburgh. It cites figures for international travel expenditures, describes cathedral woodwork, lists western range states where wild horses are rounded up, and notes Chicago Day attendance at the 1893 Columbian Exposition.
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United States
Chicago
Answers to reader questions from The Winchester Evening Star
A reader information service lists sample Q A pairs on church membership cricket chirps immigration work force failures eggs daily consumption and the International Date Line. It explains how to request more answers by mail with three cents and notes dates such as April 12 1920.
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Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau
Frederic J. Haskin
Washington, D. C
First Aid Booklet for Home or Camp Offer
A newspaper offers a timely First Aid booklet covering accidents at home, camp, hikes, and weekends. It explains checking danger, dressing wounds, easing inflammation, burns, shock, drowning, snake bites, insect bites, and poison ivy. Send for your copy by mail today. Ten cents postpaid. Use This Coupon.
Violet oil priced at ten thousand dollars per pound
The American Perfumer reports natural oil of violet costing $10 000 per pound. The claim notes the high value and scarcity of the rare fragrance ingredient.
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American Perfumer
Attack Suspects Held in Maryland Grudge Case
Elkridge Maryland July 26 Police held two youths after partial ID as assailants of two elderly spinster sisters Monday night Miss Stella Laffy 46 said one boy answers the description while Miss Agnes Laffy 51 did not see attackers well enough to describe them The sisters were struck by two men as they cut across a field after closing their grocery store Police ruled out robbery and pursued a possible grudge motive.
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Elkridge
Stella Laffy
Agnes Laffy
Man Pleads His Own Case In Freedom Appeal
Andrews acted as his own attorney five times in a habeas corpus appeal for freedom. Chief Judge Lindley Sloan of the Circuit Court remained unmoved by the efforts and ordered Andrews to pay the hearing costs.
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Andrews
Lindley Sloan
Sloan
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