Word: brides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George Curson (Warner Baxter), third-generation head of the House of Curson, swank Manhattan dress-shop, is busy whipping up a little bridal number for Wendy van Klettering's (Joan Bennett) imminent wedding, when the bride-to-be floors him by imploring him to scotch the wedding by sabotaging the dress. Aristocratic but penniless Wendy, it appears, is well aware she is being sold down the river, regards her rich fiancé, Mr. Morgan (Alan Mowbray) as a blight. Curson, a married man himself, very properly pays no attention to Wendy's pleas, delivers the dress on time...
Thus read placards posted in stations of the Toledo, Peoria & Western R. R. 50 years ago last week. Some 750 people from Peoria and nearby towns made reservations. A train dispatcher took along his bride. A superintendent of the T. P. & W. attached his private car, invited a party of friends. Sixteen coaches hauled by two locomotives were necessary to accommodate the crowd. Setting gaily forth, the train presently reached tiny Chatsworth. Ill., took on six more passengers, chugged out of the station at 11:35 p. m. Some two miles outside the town it approached a small wooden culvert...
...Spanish Leftists stepped onetime U. S. Army Pilot Harold Dahl. A secretary offered him a contract at $1,500 per week to act as an instructor of Leftist fliers in Spain. The contract provided that Pilot Dahl's wages be paid outside of Spain directly to his bride, Mrs. Edith Rogers Dahl, who used to appear with Crooner Rudy Vallee's band. After signing, Pilot Dahl was sent to Mexico, provided there with a passport showing him to be a Spaniard by the name of Hernandez Diaz. Bridegroom Dahl sailed for Spain and Bride Dahl settled down...
...more vigorous story of the discovery of oil in western Pennsylvania. The home-drilled well that Peter Cortlandt has rigged up behind his grandmother's house comes in the day of his wedding, spouting a geyser of oil that drenches the wedding party and turns the bride's dress black. What follows is Peter's epic fight with the head of a railroad line (Alan Hale) for control of the new industry. When the railroads boost freight rates to force the farmers to sell out their oil lands, Peter and his friends start a pipe line...
...members arrived for a busy week of speechmaking and fun. Will Loomis of the La Grange 111. Citizen helped start things with the topic. "Where do we go from here?'" Then the editors were shown a cooking school film entitled The Bride Wakes Up and heard from the folksy syndicate poet. Edgar A. Guest. Ford Motor Co. scheduled a lunch at Dearborn Inn, a trip through Greenfield Village and a speech by its official spokesman, William J. Cameron. General Motors Corp. offered a tour of its Pontiac plant and a free Pontiac to the editor who would write...