Kiwanis Fun Festival Gives Free Rides to Children
Pupils from Winchester Day Nursery Colored Day Nursery and Evans Orphanage rode City buses to Willow Lawn for the Kiwanis Fun Festival. The event, run with Winchester Amusement Co, offered free rides, pop ice cream and balloons. The carnival runs nightly at Valley Photo Center 6 30 to closing through Saturday with concerts by local drum and bugle corps.
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Winchester Day Nursery
Colored Day Nursery
Evans Orphanage
Kiwanis Club
Willow Lawn
Winchester Amusement Company
Quo Vadis in Color Marks MGM Hollywood Debut
Hollywood coverage notes MGMs Quo Vadis with Robert Taylor and Deborah Kerr as the first Hollywood produced version and first talking color film. It traces the novel’s fame from 1895 through stage and opera adaptations and late 1913 Broadway Astor Theatre premiere influence on D W Griffith.
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Paris
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Robert Taylor
Deborah Kerr
Hollywood
Technicolor
Henryk Sienkiewics
Poland
Madame Waleska
Greta Garbo
Charles Boyer
Little, Brown and Company
Bienkiewicz
Cines Company
Italy
United States
Charles Kleine
Broadway
Astor Theatre
Astor
D. W. Griffith
Emil Jannings
Nero
MGM Clears Rights for Quo Vadis After Lion Incident
During preparations for Quo Vadis MGM had to clear all rights. The studio bought the 1925 production and sought talks picture rights by contacting the author’s two living children. A Paris lawyer traveled behind the Iron Curtain to Poland and found Henry Sienkiewicz Jr. in Oblegorek Kielecki and his daughter Jadwiga Kornilowicz in Krakow.
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M-G-M
Henrv_ Sienkiewicz, Jr
Oblegorek Kielecki
Jadwiga Kornilowicz
Krakow
Mexican Food in Demand in Cleveland
Alberto Tenorio Jr and his wife built a thriving grocery business in Cleveland serving mostly Spanish speaking customers from Puerto Rico and Mexico. They cater to a tourist trade seeking Mexican foods such as tacos tortillas tamales and enchilades and stock Mexican and Puerto Rican newspapers magazines phonograph records and pottery.
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Cleveland
Alberto Tenorio Jr
Puerto Rico
Mexico
Tenorio
German POW Secrets Found at Monteith Jail Farm
Workers uncover German prisoner of war camp debris at Monteith Jail Farm in Canada. They tear down barracks and discover two home-made radios maps and a box of contraband. Radios built from combs nails and scrap. walls filled with earth likely from a tunnel. escape tunnels detected under floodlit ground.
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Montieth
Canada
Monteith
Army camel trains struggle in New Mexico 1855 pilot
In 1855 the U S Army tested camel trains for transport in New Mexico but the rocky terrain damaged camel feet and hindered performance, revealing the experiment’s limitations in that landscape.
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U. S
New Mexico
Sun Cooker Developed by British Scientists
New York reports scientists unveil a sun cooker that uses mirrors and lenses to focus sunlight into a cooking chamber potentially ending backyard charcoal use. The device demonstrates solar energy collection and could seed industrial use, contrasting with gunpowder’s traditional composition of saltpetre sulphur and charcoal.
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New York
British Information Service
Fair Official Marks 25 Years With State Fair of Texas
S Bowen Cox 72 recently marked a quarter century as secretary of the State Fair of Texas. From a small start the fair has grown into a year round event with trade shows sports, musicals and permanent exhibits. Cox began as chief clerk to the secretary and expects another long tenure with the organization.
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Dallas
S. Bowen Cox
Texas
Cox
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