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...plot is divided into no less than four main tracks which scarcely overlap but the leads of each are sufficiently amusing. The honors of the film go to Ned Sparks who suggests that the story of Aunt Jemima be told using the name of Aunt Delilah as the pegro cook who first had the recipe for the best tasting pancake batter in the world and to Warren Williams as the ichthyologist who falls in love with Colbert but cannot marry her because the daughter has fallen in love with him and the marriage would separate the mother and daughter which...
...Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit books have sold by the hundreds of thousands, are cherished by adults who spurn her imitators. Besides the Tale of Peter Rabbit, other Potter best sellers include: Tale of Benjamin Bunny, Tailor of Gloucester, Tale of Two Bad Mice, Tale of Jemima Puddleduck...
Into a Brooklyn police court was haled Tess Gardell, 300-lb. Italian soprano who performs as Aunt Jemima in radio and musical comedy. She was charged with assaulting (jaw, glasses) one Abraham Zimmer (130 Ib.) whose automobile had collided with hers...
...four largest agencies are popularly supposed to be J. Walter Thompson Co. (which handles such advertising as Aunt Jemima Pancake Flour, Cream of Wheat, Fleischmann's Yeast, O'Sullivan's Heels, Ed. Pinaud, Royal Baking Powder, Sun-Maid Raisins, Swift & Co., Sloan's Liniment, Welch's Grape Juice) ; N. W. Ayer & Son (which handles such accounts as American Telephone and Telegraph, Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Hire's Root Beer, International Silver Co., National Cash Register, Reynolds Tobacco, Squibb, Steinway Pianos, Victor Talking Machines) ; F. Wallis Armstrong Co. (which has Campbell's soup, Fels...
Died. Mrs. Nancy Green, 89. " Aunt Jemima," whose name decorates boxes of the pancake flour put up by the Aunt Jemima Mills Co. of St. Joseph, Mo., in Chicago, in an automobile accident. She first publicly demonstrated her skill with a pancake turner at the Chicago World's Fair...