Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...racket of the officials of Bay St. Louis, Miss., complained of by James Blackton...
Prime political event of last week was the beginning of a fishing trip. One morning Franklin Roosevelt, 27 hours out of Washington, detrained at Biloxi, Miss, accompanied by his trusty supporter, Senator Pat ("The Fox") Harrison. With Governor Hugh White of Mississippi they drove to Jefferson Davis' onetime estate (now a home for Confederate veterans) and on to Gulfport, home of Senator Harrison. There the President was joined by his son Elliott and Governor Richard Webster Leche (pronounced lesh) of Louisiana and entrained, beginning the significant part of his journey...
...detective chases her for doughnut stealing, has begun a romance with a sheet music salesman, Terry Keith (Johnny Downs). Obstacles to their coalition and therefore to Tweep's and Dinwiddy's are: 1) efforts of Store Manager Truelove Spencer (Grady Sutton) to annex the girl himself; 2) Miss Tweep's cynical attitude toward astrology; 3) Dinwiddy's inability to establish his identity when arrested, drunk, for breaking up the sporting goods department with a shotgun. Love and astrology are finally correlated at a store party, assisted by music from Phil Harris & Kenny Baker, a lovely dance...
Observers of celestial objects will feature the short non-technical talk, and exhibits showing the work of the Observatory will be explained by members of the staff. Tickets must be procured in advance for the three remaining lectures at which the speakers will be Miss Edith Jones. Theodore E. Sterne, lecturer in Astrophysics, and Fletcher G. Watson, assistant in Astronomy...
...Astaire and Miss Rogers bring their devotees something new to talk about by way of a roller skating act. The story, of course, is unimportant, and this time concerns the rumored marriage of a psuedo-Russian ballet dancer (Astaire) and an American jazz singer (Rogers). An ocean crossing provides the setting for an original act in the engine room, where a colored swing band assembles to "slap the bass" in time with the engines and Astaire's feet...