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Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-18
Chapter AV p. E. O. Members
Hear Vivid Book Review -

A vivid and descriptive review
of Housewife Becomes House Maid
on Dare" by Myra Williams Jer-
rell, was given by Mrs. Forrest E.
Kutz at the Chapter AV, PEG,
meeting Monday at the home of
Mrs. Jessie Sargent on Olive avenue.
The story is about woman who
worked as a maid to get the servants
point of view of the hired help
problem. Mrs. Terrell was dared
to do such a thing while playing a
quiet game of bridge, and she i'm
mediately took up the dare.
A delicious luncheon was served
with Mrs. Sargent as hostess.
Present were the Mesdames j. d.
Adams, Don c. Bitler, o. j. Brad
shaw, Roy E. Breedlove, w. j.
Clements, Warren Currier, Earle c.
Davis, Donna Holloway, Elmer W.
Heald, Leroy Holt, o. G. Horne,
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Ell Centrans Wed
In Yuma Sun.
Morning

Valley friends of Miss Marian
Lively Tuesday learned she became
the bride of Tommy Kennedy Sun
day morning in Yuma.
Accompanying the couple to Yuma
were Gerry Blake. Jack Hensley
OF Ell Centre and Harold johnson
of Brawley.
The bride was attractively dress
ed in dubonnet colored suit with
brown accessories, and Miss Blake
who served as the maid of honor
wore a rust colored suit with brown
accessories.
Hensley assisted Kennedy as the
best man.
Mrs. Kennedy, who is the daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dar-
rough of $50 Olive avenue. attend
ed school in Ell Centro and was
graduated from Central Union high
school.
Kennedy is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. c. S. Kennedy Of Ell Centro
and he attended school in Pasadena
The couple will make their home
in Ell Centre as Kennedy is en-
ployed at the Valley Drug and Mrs.
Kennedy at the Valley theater.
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The work, aims and objectiyes of
&the Parent Teachers association
were explained by Mrs. E. T. Hale,
second vice president of the state
PIT. A. at a Wilson Mckinley
school joint meeting Monday night
at Wilson school.
Seventeen thousand of the nearly
100000 members have life member
ships, Mrs. Hale told the large au-
dience. A fund of $4,000 has been
created from the fees paid by life
members and as a revolving loan
fund for needy students. AS much
as $3.50 is loaned single student.
No interest is charged until he has
obtained a definite position.
The five major objectives of the
state organization, she said, are:
\ Cd Group study of the cost and
reorganization of the government,
90 Cooperation with local and
county groups on recreation, 90
Money management as an index of
life management, ca Public health
as an educational program, and
CD Peace through understanding.
On No. 3, Mrs. Hale gave an in
teresting talk on the Brooklyn plan
from a chart made by Walter Phil
lips of Wilson school. The Brooklyn
plan shows that the management
of time precedes the management
of finances.
Opening the business session.
Ernest Webecke of Mckinley school
led the group in pledging allegiance
to the flag, which was followed by
the reading of the PIT. A. collect
by Mrs. Wesley Hell.
' Leo DeCelles, principal of Wilson
school, welcomed the guests and
representatives of the other schools.
Prizes for attendance were award
ed to Webecke's 5th grade class of
Mckinley school and Glen Wilson'S
9th grade class of Wilson school.
The Wilson school girls glee club,
under the direction of Mrs. Dorothy
Armstrong, sang Sing Little Banjo
Sing" and a fencing dance directed
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p 7. A. Work Explained by
Mrs. E.T. Hale

by Jane Tylor was presented by
girls from the folk dancing class
The girls who danced were Dorothy
Coulter, Dixie Hutson, Pauline Hoy
and Betty Cole.
Melvin Womack and Jack Thorn
burg concluded the program with
two accordion duets.
Tea was served at the close OF
the meeting with Mrs. N. C. Greer
of Mckinley school, Mrs. M. Zavala
and Mrs. G. T. Gilkison of Wilson
school in charge.
The table was beautifully decorat-
ed in green and yellow theme with
large centerpiece of calendulas
and French marigolds. Mrs. S. L.
McCrory and Mrs. Nora Epler Cooley
poured
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Plans Finished
FOrCOf CDinner

Chamber of commerce officials
Tuesday virtually completed plans
for the associated chamber of COM
merce dinner Jan. 26 in Ell Gen.
tro at which Gov. Frank Merriam
will be the guest speaker.
The coordinating committee of
San Diego will attend the dinner
according to Bob Hays, secretary of
the chamber of commerce.
SINGAPORE CU.PJ-A Yorkshire
woman, Mrs. Janet Cowling, man
ages a large rubber estate and
controls large native population
single handed in the territory OF
Papua, British New Guinea. She is
known even to many of the ma
tives as Janet"
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San Diegans Visit
In Ell Centre
OUer Weekend

Eight San Diegans were house
guests of DR. R. L. Palmer and Mrs
Palmer over the weekend
Guests were the Messrs. and Mes
DANES Albert Larson, Thomas Die
kerson, Roy Akers and James Put
nam, who left early Monday morn
in.
Albert Larson is well-knoWn as a
baritone and he favored the guests
at the Eagles dance Saturday night
with several baritone solos. In
cluded among the songs he sang
were when Irish Eyes Are Smil-
ing" and when l Grow Too Old
To Dream.
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Eastern Star Club
Holds Gathering
BRAWLEY NOTES

Members of the Eastern Star
Social club gathered at the home
of Mrs. George Gullett, 172 West
street, Tuesday for their second
January session. Following a pot
luck luncheon at noon brief busi-
ness meeting was held
Mrs. j. A. Morrow was hostess
when Informal Study club men,
bers met last week. Mrs. julius
Schmidt gave delightful review
of You Can't Take it with YOU.
Attending were Mesdames j. Ralph
Anderson, G. L. Marsh, George
Middleton, A. H. Nickel, Leslie
Powell, H. E. Ramsdell, Harry Rus
sell, Julius c. Schmidt. j. F.. War
ner, H. P. Wilke, E.. M. Uhlig, Wal
ter Vogel, Charles Wieman. Robert
Key, DR.. Bertha Lewis, and the
hostess.
When the Women of the Moose
met last week, initiation of three
candidates was conducted. Decor
ations of flowers provided a pretty
setting for the ceremony which
was in charge of Helen Thompson,
senior regent. and in which Grace
McIntoch, Jean O'Connell and
Frances Dodson became members
of the lodge.
Henry O'Brien has resumed his
studies at the University of Cali
| fornia.
Mrs. w. r. Hensley was hostes:
when the One O'clock Study clut
met recently. "Moslem Lands" wa:
the subject Attending were Mes
danes Pauline Hensley, c. A. Ga.
bard L. o. Wilabee, Fred Robert
son, Everett Smith, Emma Richey
and the hostess.
William G.. La Berge, president
of the BraWley KiwaniS club anc
Carl Jacobson, secretary, were ir
Bakersfield last weekend attending
a training school for officers o.
the southern district.
Lester Derrick and Dick Bates
have returned from Phoenix, Wnere
they went on business.
An evening of bunco and an en-
tertainment following was sponsor
ed by the Young Ladies' Sodality u
Sacred Heart church last week.
H. R. Farr, grand master of the
IO.OF. Grand Lodge of the State
of California, paid an official visit
to the Brawley lodge No. 408, Wed
nesday night. The grand master
who lives in San Diego was accom-
panied here by other members OF
the Grand Lodge staff.
Mr.. and Mrs. Don O'Bleness have
as their house guest Mrs. O'Bleness
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. F.. H. Hinton
| from Sacramento.
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County Briefs

Leila Martin wishes to announce
the location of Martins Music
Shop at 1877 North Sixth Street. J22
Resolved for the future to use
the oldest experienced truck COM
pany for moving my piano and
household goods by calling Pioneer
Truck and Transfer Co., Phone l.
A trunk or a truck load. J18
Draws Jail Sentence-Tony Lo-
PEE, %, is in the county Jail for
60 days. He was sentenced in Braw-
ley for disturbing the peace.
Jailed For tagrancy - Twenty
days in the county Jail fell to the
lot of Frank Merles, 33. He was
arrested and sentenced in Brawley
for vagrancy.
Villanova, 43, Brawley vagrant, is
serving a 20-day sentence in the
county Jail.
To Make Repairs-Edgar Broth
ers company will make $3.50 re-
pairs to their store at 37i Main
street. A building permit was is
sued Tuesday at city hall
\
Church Unveils Totem Pole
WILLOUGHBY, o. CUP) = A
totem pole, toted here from Alaska
more than SO years ago, was "un-
yelled" in the parish hall of the
Grace Episcopal church here. The
pole, of gargoyle- heads piled
one on top of the other, is IL feet
high, foot in diameter and is
believed to be about 200 years old.
\
YOU haven't read ALL the NEWS
until you READ the ADS!
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Margaret I. Iruing
Born Monday

Margaret Ivonne Irving, weighing
7 pounds ounces, arrived at 1910
pm. Monday at the Ell Centre hos
pital.
The baby is the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Chester A. Irving of TAI
State street.
Mrs. Irving is the former Ruth
Elizabeth Grafton and she was
graduated from high school and
junior college in Ell Centro. The
grandparents on the mothers side
are Mr.. and Mrs. j. M. Grafton,
valley pioneers.
The paternal grandmother is Mrs.
Marie Land.
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Stamp, Coin Club
To Meet On
Wednesday

Members of the Imperial Valley
Stamp and Coin club will meet at
8 pm. wednesday at the English
Village inn.
The possibility Of getting a COM
memorative All American canal
stamp issued will be discussed. If
the stamp is issued, the possible
date of issuance will be in June of
this year.
On Jan. 8, the Imperial Valley
club was admitted to the Federated
Philatelic clubs of Southern Cali
fornia, bringing the total club men,
bership up to 18 in the organiza-
ton.
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McCABE FOLK
VISIT FRIENDS
McCABE NOTES

MCCABE NOTES
Mr.. and Mrs. j. P. Wagner, their
sons Russell and Gene, and Bill
SunstrOm visited the Clarence OS-
bornes and the Smith Wagoners in
Andrade Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Max Stroh spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Elvin
Barnett of Ell Centro
G. v. Upholt accompanied friends
to the Imperial dam Sunday.
The M. A. Mahlmans were guests
Sunday evening of Mr.. and Mrs
Albert Studer of Meloland.
Mr. and Mrs. George Sluter OF
Ell Centro were guests Friday of
Mr.. and Mrs. Max StrOh.
Mr.. and Mrs Wallace Brant spent
the weekend in Orange and Pasa-
dena
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Government Customs of Chile
Told at History Section

er, w. A. Vie, Herbert Harris.
John Waterman, Laural Ferguson,
Julia Bracket, ]. d. Townsend,
Dan c. Scott, d. H. Stephens;
MeSdames N. A. Contos, p. N.
Van Slyck, J. A. Strau.b.. ID. w.
Ketchen. Rodney jenkins. Sem
Bacon, and A. C, Finney.
HoSteSses at Mondays meeting
were Mrs Bacon and Mrs. Finney
who served fancy cakes and tea.
The tea table was most attrac-
tive with a bouquet of sweet peas,
coSmas and zinnias of the pastel
shades as the centerpiece. A Mexi-
can cloth and napkins lent a gay
note to the table.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-18
Beginning Bridge
To Hold Meeting

Mrs. Robert Dinsmore and jose
phine Eady will be hostesses to the
beginning bridge section of the
Junior Ten Thousand club at their
meeting, 7:30 pm. Wednesday at
the. Mrs. Dinsmore's home, 673 Len
Rey avenue.
Mrs. B. E. Lemons, section teach
er, will be present.
Members who will be unable to
attend are asked to call Mrs. Dins-
more, telephone 1341-W.
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Mt. Signal Home
DEBT. To Meet

Mt. Signal home department will
meet at 1890 am. Wednesday at
the home of Mrs. J. C. Stuart on
South 9th street.
An all-day meeting will be held
and pot-luck luncheon served at
nOOn
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Nancy E. Livingston
Born Tuesday

Mr.. and Mrs. G. E. "Chan" Liv-
ingston are the parents of a baby
girl born at $3.50 am Tuesday at
the Ell Centre hospital.
The baby, who weighed seven
pounds and nine ounces, has been
named Nancy Escoe Livington.
The Livingstons live at 1915 Eu-
cid avenue.
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Social Committee
VIII Meet

Members of the social committee
OF the Junior Ten Thousand club
will meet at 7:30 pm. Wednesday
at the home of Mae Thomas.
Miss Thomas home is located
IL blocks west of the city limits
on the left side of San Diego high
way.
Plans for the semi formal to be
held on Jan. 90 will be completed
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READY TO GO

when you get your garment back
from Marshs. More and more at
tention is given to the minor re-
pairs TO all types of wearing APP
parel. The mems suits are in
spected one at a time before
pressing, with a flag" a bright
colored paper, listing every necess-
airy repair. At the final inspection,
the entire suit is again checked
for missing buttons, etc, as well as
for spots and faulty pressing.
This free but careful service gives
your dollar spent at Marsh's more
power.
Telephone ABS Location: Barbara
Worth Hotel Building. Adv.
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Neuus Items About
Valley Residents

Mr.. and Mrs. j. D. Huston are
in Imperial where they will spend
several weeks.
Mrs. Harvey Kenyon is recover
ing in Paradise Valley sanitorium
after a major operation performed
Saturday. Kenyon who was with
his wife at the time of the opera
ton. said her physicians consider
her condition satisfactory.
Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Delozier have
returned to Ell Centro from Los
Angeles where they were called
last week to the bedside of their
son-in- law, Sidney Fleming, who
underwent serious operation
Fleming's condition is greatly i'm
proved.
George Loudon Jr. left Ell Centre
early in the week for a four-day
visit in Los Angeles.
Mary Louise Sigmond is i'll at
her home with pneumonia. Her
condition is improving.
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Advanced Bridge To
Meet Wednesday

Members of the Advanced bridge
section of the Junior Ten Thou
sand club will meet at 7:30 pm.
Wednesday at the clubhouse.
Hostesses for the affair will be
Kathleen Westmoreland and Claire
Guthrie
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Imperial Auxiliary
To Hold Dance

Old fashioned dancing to the
tunes of a good orchestra will bt
in store for members of the I'm
perial American Legion auxiliary
and their guests at $3.50 pm. Fri
day, Jan. 81, Veterans Memoria
hall, Imperial.
The committee in charge consist:
of Dan Grumbles and Mrs. F. O
ROsenbaum.
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Harry Horton, L. c. House;
Mesdames j. d. Huston, M O.
King, jr., Forrest E. Kutz, C. E.
Livingston, r. D. McPherrin, A. P.
Nuffer, c. E. Polzin, Don Rex, Jes-
sic Sargent, M. o. Simms. Georgia
Sprague and Vaughn N. Thompson.
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Arts and Crafts
Will Meet

Members of the Arts and Crafts
section of the Junior Ten Thousand
club will meet at 7:30 pm. Wednes-
day in the ice plant.
Evelyn Johnson, chairman, will be
in charge of new projects.
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Study Groups To
Hold Meeting

Eastern Star study groups will
meet at 7:30 pm. Wednesday at
the Masonic Temple in Holtville.
Members of the different groups
will complete the election of Off
GERS.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-18

4. "s0lD AMERICAN, the auctioneer
chants, as the choice center-leaf tobacco goes
to Lucky Strike. Men who earn their living
from tobacco, know that Lucky Strike buys
the finest grades. These men are the :.
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3. THAT AUCTIONEER on our program
reminds me that, among tobacco experts,
Luckies have Ito lead over all other brands.
think Luckies have to 1 lead also among
the actors and actresses here in Hollywood"
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2. "REHEARSINC FOR your Hollywood
Parade, my new radio program. Luckies are
the gentlest cigarette on my throat"
because the "Toasting" process takes out
certain irritants found in all tobacco.)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-11-02
Staff Named for
 "Ro|d Everything
Rehearsals Are Progressing for School Comedy
 Given Nov. IS

Work on Hold Everything,' de- lightful three-act comedy, which will be presented in the Juneau High School gymnasium November 13 has entered it's second week oi re- hearsals.
 Bill Wood has been named stage manager to be assisted by Phillip Harland Other members of the production staff include Pauline Pe- trich, Dorothy Wilms, Kay McAl- ister, costumes; Harry Watkins, Hallie Rice, property men; Louise Adams, June Anderson, Lanore Kaufmann, programs: Sue Stew art, Frances Paul, Mildred Render, makeup; Herman Porter, Eckley Guerin, electricians; Sylvia Davis. zaida Carlson, Susie Winn, Char liene Arnold Dorothy Fors, Mar iorie Shell, Helen Miller, ushers; Isabel Parsons, Maydelle George, tickets; Virginia Dufresne. Virginia Morley Doris McEachran, prompt ore
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-11-02

held in Berlin, proposed that the double-barred red cross be adopted as the international emblem of the anti tuberculosis movement. As a sign of victory for the Crusaders in the 1lth to the 14th centuries, this cross had always been an insignia for courage, high ideals and a desire to make the world better. It seemed fitting, therefore, to adopt it as the emblem for the tuberculosis campaign whose desire is to bring about healthy world one from which tuberculosis some day must be banished.
 Tn our country" said MT. Wat son, "tlie double-barred cross is used all through the year on post CTS, pamphlets, periodicals and other educational material dis tributed by the tuberculosis asso- citations. At this season especially, everybody has chance to become acquainted with the worldwide symbol. It is appearing in double measure on the millions Of Christi mas Seals that are sold between Thanksgiving and Christmas to support the nationwide education tuberculosis campaign
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-11-02
Juneau Ladies Auxiliary

ID - A IN -C -E Saturday, November 5, at the Union Hall. Entertainment, Spot Dances, Prizes; 6-piece orchestra. adv
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-11-02
HIL.L. BELLIES
 SEEN IN FILM
 AT COLISEUM
Swing Your Lady" Fea- lures Weaver Broth
 CTS and Elviry

Swing Your Lady. Warner Bros. farce-comedy dealing with
 fe among the hillbnlies of the Ozarks, will have it's first local showing tonight at the Coliseum Theatre.
 The story has 10 do with champion wrestler and his entour- age who get stranded in hul hamlet. The wrestler, to get them oul, has to take on match with a local ground -scufnor.7 end this battle is said to be one of the funniest things thrown on 8 screen this season.
 It's more CT less on the level, too, because the wrestling champ is none other than Nal Peudleton. the actor who at one time held the Olympic heavyweight title, and the hllbilly is Dan1 Boone Savage the picturesque bewhiskered strong man well known in the current grunt and groan racket.
 Humphrey Bogart plays Pendle- tens manager, Prank McHugh is his trainer Penny Singleton is Bo- garts heart interest Louise Ea1enda is a lady blacksmith and the fam cd vaudeville team of the Weaver Brc,hers and Ely.ry are hllhalics.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-11-02
Hollywood Sights And Sounds
By Robin coons

HOLLYWOOD. calq Nov 2.-suange the of Holly wood Freddie Bartholomew has become Amecaniaed that MGM feels redcveop his English accent To this end Freddie eoodby friend R L. Van sooek the boy goes his personal pearance he will instructor, Captain John " Cooper exBish officer Captain Cooper the studio hopes will have Feddie accent back normal by the time that the delayed production of Kim
 Martha Rave and Composer David will marriage in home of their They have rented a colonial house not far from Hoywoods boulevard Meanwhile mother is moving the star used to live in Laurel
 Up at the "Gunea Din location where Cary Grant Douglas Fairbanks Jr and Victor Mcagen recently swetered uniforms the temperature is Character Actor sam Jafee who in lon cloth which King described nothing and less than arf Of that behind hundred in similar plight They ehearse shiver during takes The water the location actually that be heated before elephants troupe
 II you think being slightly halmy doesn't pay The Ritz brothers have been signed opening the Worlds Fair in New salary S5OO0O
 Maybe because of he publicity. Mickey Rooney to give his imitation Wallace Beey akeoff of between Clark Gable Barrymore
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-11-02
Mrs. Morley Has
 Bridget. Luncheon

With each individual table dec orated in Thanksgiving motif, Mrs. J. F. Morley is entertaining this afternoon at her residence in the Fifth Avenue Apartments, with a bridge e-luncheon.
 Guests present include Mrs. Ed win Sutton. Mrs Harold Smith. Mrs. Clarence Wise, Mrs. John Chappell, Mrs. H. c. Wilcox, Mrs. H. B. Humphrey, Mrs. Wellman Holbrook, Mrs. Ray Peterman, Mrs. Claude Hirst, Mrs. Charles w. H worth. and Mrs. J. L. Dolenc.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-11-02
Z Double Barred
 Crosses Appear,
 Christmas Seals
Everybody Has Upportun- ity to Get Acquainted
 with World Symbol

For the third time since the first tuberculosis Christmas Seals were sold in 1907, two double-bar crosses appear on this years seal The 1919 and 1923 issues also had two red, double barred crosses.
 This red cross with two bars is used the world over as the symbol of the tuberculosis crusade ex- plained Harry Watson, President of the Alaska Tuberculosis Associa- tion "In a standardized form it is the trademark of the National Tu- berculosis Association and it's 1,500 affiliated associations throughout the country.
 Tn 1902, two years before the National Tuberculosis Association was founded, Dr. c. Sersiron of Paris, at tuberculosis conference
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-11-02

Test Pilot" His mlncry of Edward G. Robinson also is classic. Believe Mickey a story Robinson Warmers really ought contact him.
 business where stealing all common it's hear a gesture Butler just They trying figure punch ending for the picture Ken Who property should turn with swell idea? adopting the suggestion his Butler the property full credit his 10 his superior Under production department written the letter.
 If Mia Korius makes hit the Waltz" M-G-M will her big balyhoo the slogan "Kous pro- Gorgeous"
 bit Of license it's really pronounced @Koryus"
 However the idea good the average tongue would stumble AIilza Koryus.9
 Geneveve has married Director William Keighey her brother George will become Keigheys assistants formerly story department Tobins Crosby. reception 0 picture Drums that Kordas discovery really First weeks of the film Francisco big "Agers' James Ellison Gertrude Durkin off New York Director Robert Sinclair really had the jitters his wife visited the Dramatic School Luse Raner and Pauette Goddard rib showeed him with careses Mrs Sinclair knew
 Gale Page hired the lree-pece Del Arroyo and after closing Hollywood serenade her friends until the Ponsee the fun New twosomes: Randolph Scott with Mary at the Tropics Colin Tapley with Clark IT Harry Carey has been pictures for 28 and The West of Tombstone 3o0 picture role Franciska Gaal has been the dressing MC-M Greta has a brand awaiting her return.