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...speaking of the week's program at the Paramount and Fenway, in order to begin with a note of optimism, we have to describe the "second big hit" first. For Warner Oland's mystifying in "Charlie Chan's Secret" proves much more enticing than the rigmarole of "Coronado...
Major-General Malin Craig, Commandant of the War College at Washington, was out playing golf with his aide and two instructors on the Indian Spring course one day last week when the most important event of his life occurred. Three thousand miles away in Coronado,. Calif, a gentleman who likes the Navy better than the Army suddenly took it into his head to send a telegram before sailing off for the Panama Canal. When the General returned to his red brick quarters on the banks of the Potomac, his wife danced up to tell him that Commander-in-Chief Franklin...
Situated on the brink of the Pacific ten miles from the Mexican border, San Diego is a bustling city of 150,000 whose chief assets are one of the world's finest harbors, the adjacent rich resort colony of Coronado, the biggest West Coast naval station and Army, Navy and Marine air bases. From Chicago the city's resourceful businessmen borrowed their reason for having a fair this year. It was to represent, approximately, "four centuries of progress" dating from 1542 when Portuguese Navigator Cabrillo's ships entered the harbor. More realistic were San Diego...
...made aircraft commander of the Battle Force, with his flag flying from the Langley. It was during this tour of duty on the West Coast that the effective and unconventional Admiral found himself without a car one Sunday evening when he had a dinner engagement at a fashionable Coronado hotel. He solved this difficulty by driving off in a Navy truck, so startling the marine sentry that he saluted with both hands...
Residents of Omaha and Nebraska claim that when Spanish Explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, in 1541, went in quest of Quivera, a town of which an Indian prisoner had given a glowing description ("a land of gold"), he came to Nebraska. When he arrived, he found nothing more than a village of seminomadic Indians, realized that the stories of streets paved with gold were myths, returned to Mexico. But the land has become a land covered with gold-the gold of corn and wheat. Hence Nebraska's annual Royal Castle...