Fran Baker's Blog, page 6
August 29, 2012
Wednesday, August 29, 1934
Went over to Laten's. He drove us up home (Clay Center, Kansas). Got polish and went to Mart's then to Emmett and Melvin's. Stayed all night at Henry's.
[image error]Jimmy Durante's Stage Antics - August 29, 1934
Jimmy Durante says things have reached a pretty spot for him, as he can’t enter a night club without having the master of ceremonies ask him to sing. While he is an obliging person at heart, there comes a time when the best of clowns likes to sit quietly and enjoy seeing the other fellow work.
So now Jimmy has a new stunt. Whenever he’s called on to give a number, he obliges with the roughest song he knows; tears the music, smashes at the piano, wrecks music stands and does all the incidental damage possible.
The audience loves it. But the management? That’s another story.
[image error]Jimmy Durante's Stage Antics - August 29, 1934
Jimmy Durante says things have reached a pretty spot for him, as he can’t enter a night club without having the master of ceremonies ask him to sing. While he is an obliging person at heart, there comes a time when the best of clowns likes to sit quietly and enjoy seeing the other fellow work.
So now Jimmy has a new stunt. Whenever he’s called on to give a number, he obliges with the roughest song he knows; tears the music, smashes at the piano, wrecks music stands and does all the incidental damage possible.
The audience loves it. But the management? That’s another story.
August 28, 2012
Tuesday, August 28, 1934
Got our stuff ready for tomorrow. Mother didn't feel very good. Uncle Laten by. Pauline and I went to the show. Saw "Sing and Like It" and
[image error] Sing and Like It
Comedy - 72 minutes
Starring Zasu Pitts, Pert Kelton, Edward Everett Horton
Written by Aben Kandel (story "So You Won't Sing, Eh?")
Directed by William A. Seiter
A gangster (Nat Pendleton) tries to turn his tone-deaf girlfriend into a singing star.
[image error] Sing and Like It
Comedy - 72 minutes
Starring Zasu Pitts, Pert Kelton, Edward Everett Horton
Written by Aben Kandel (story "So You Won't Sing, Eh?")
Directed by William A. Seiter
A gangster (Nat Pendleton) tries to turn his tone-deaf girlfriend into a singing star.
August 27, 2012
Monday, August 27, 1934
Mother washed clothes. I ironed them. Pauline and Catherine were down. Went over to Raifert's.
Walgreens
The company had its origin in 1901, when Charles R. Walgreen bought the drugstore, on the south side of Chicago, at which he had been working as a pharmacist. He bought a second store in 1909; by 1915, there were five Walgreen drugstores. He made numerous improvements and innovations in the stores, including the addition of soda fountains (Walgreen invented that perennial drugstore favorite, the malt!) that also featured luncheon service. Walgreen also began to make his own line of drug products; by doing so, he was able to control the quality of these items and offer them at lower prices than competitors.
By 1934, 600 Walgreen agency stores were functioning in 33 states, mostly in Midwestern communities with populations of less than 20,000.
WalgreensThe company had its origin in 1901, when Charles R. Walgreen bought the drugstore, on the south side of Chicago, at which he had been working as a pharmacist. He bought a second store in 1909; by 1915, there were five Walgreen drugstores. He made numerous improvements and innovations in the stores, including the addition of soda fountains (Walgreen invented that perennial drugstore favorite, the malt!) that also featured luncheon service. Walgreen also began to make his own line of drug products; by doing so, he was able to control the quality of these items and offer them at lower prices than competitors.
By 1934, 600 Walgreen agency stores were functioning in 33 states, mostly in Midwestern communities with populations of less than 20,000.
August 26, 2012
Sunday, August 26, 1934
Straightened the house for Mother. Ruth Ray and Nadine down. Ollie came over in evening to play pinochle. I read a little.
Dorothy Thompson (9 July 1893 – January 30, 1961)
August 26, 1934: Hitler's Nazi propaganda machine began expelling foreign correspondents who placed a slur or criticized Adolf Hitler; one of the first was US correspondent Dorothy Thompson.
Thompson was an American journalist and radio broadcaster, who in 1939 was recognized by Time magazine as the second most influential woman in America next to Eleanor Roosevelt. She is notable as the first American journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany in 1934 and as one of the few women news commentators on radio during the 1930s. Many fondly referred to her as the “First Lady of American Journalism.”
Dorothy Thompson (9 July 1893 – January 30, 1961)August 26, 1934: Hitler's Nazi propaganda machine began expelling foreign correspondents who placed a slur or criticized Adolf Hitler; one of the first was US correspondent Dorothy Thompson.
Thompson was an American journalist and radio broadcaster, who in 1939 was recognized by Time magazine as the second most influential woman in America next to Eleanor Roosevelt. She is notable as the first American journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany in 1934 and as one of the few women news commentators on radio during the 1930s. Many fondly referred to her as the “First Lady of American Journalism.”
August 25, 2012
Saturday, August 25, 1934
Straightened up the house. Ruth Ray and Nadine were down. Traded pictures. Pauline down too. Police came over to Cohen's house.
DC Comics
Founded in 1934 as National Allied Publications, DC Comics is an American comic book company. DC Comics, short for Detective Comics, is best known for making "superhero" comic books. Some of their characters include Superman, Aquaman, Green Lantern, Hawkman and Swamp Thing. Famous in the modern art subject Graphics, DC Comics is today owned by Time Warner.
DC ComicsFounded in 1934 as National Allied Publications, DC Comics is an American comic book company. DC Comics, short for Detective Comics, is best known for making "superhero" comic books. Some of their characters include Superman, Aquaman, Green Lantern, Hawkman and Swamp Thing. Famous in the modern art subject Graphics, DC Comics is today owned by Time Warner.
August 24, 2012
Friday, August 24, 1934
Ate breakfast. Came home with Helen. Pauline came down. Went to Kate's for supper. Saw Little Miss Marker with Helen.
Little Miss Marker
AKA The Girl in Pawn
Little Miss Marker is a 1934 American drama film directed by Alexander Hall. The screenplay was written by William R. Lipman, Sam Hellman, and Gladys Hellman after a short story of the same name by Damon Runyon. The film stars Shirley Temple, Adolphe Menjou, and Dorothy Dell in a story about a little girl held as collateral by gangsters. The film was named to the United States National Film Registry and has been remade several times.
Little Miss Marker
AKA The Girl in Pawn
Little Miss Marker is a 1934 American drama film directed by Alexander Hall. The screenplay was written by William R. Lipman, Sam Hellman, and Gladys Hellman after a short story of the same name by Damon Runyon. The film stars Shirley Temple, Adolphe Menjou, and Dorothy Dell in a story about a little girl held as collateral by gangsters. The film was named to the United States National Film Registry and has been remade several times.
August 23, 2012
Thursday, August 23, 1934
Helen came over today. We went to the magazine shop and traded movie magazines. Aunt Kate and Uncle Laten were here for supper. I stayed all night at Helen's.
![New Movie Magazine [United States] (August 1934)](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1391756772i/8450241.jpg)
Jeanette Anna MacDonald (June 18, 1903 – January 14, 1965)
MacDonald was an American singer and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier (Love Me Tonight, The Merry Widow) and Nelson Eddy (Naughty Marietta, Rose-Marie, and Maytime). During the 1930s and 1940s she starred in 29 feature films, four nominated for Best Picture Oscars (The Love Parade, One Hour with You, Naughty Marietta and San Francisco), and recorded extensively, earning three gold records. She later appeared in opera, concerts, radio, and television. MacDonald was one of the most influential sopranos of the 20th century, introducing opera to movie-going audiences and inspiring a generation of singers.
Jeanette Anna MacDonald (June 18, 1903 – January 14, 1965)MacDonald was an American singer and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier (Love Me Tonight, The Merry Widow) and Nelson Eddy (Naughty Marietta, Rose-Marie, and Maytime). During the 1930s and 1940s she starred in 29 feature films, four nominated for Best Picture Oscars (The Love Parade, One Hour with You, Naughty Marietta and San Francisco), and recorded extensively, earning three gold records. She later appeared in opera, concerts, radio, and television. MacDonald was one of the most influential sopranos of the 20th century, introducing opera to movie-going audiences and inspiring a generation of singers.
August 22, 2012
Wednesday, August 22, 1934
Straightened up the house a little bit. It is not quite so hot today.
Alcatraz Island
Prisoner Delivery - August 22, 1934
Al Capone arrived on the island on August 22, 1934 along with 52 other convicts from Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, Georgia. He had several jobs on the island including sweeping the cellhouse and working in the laundry. Capone was not popular on Alcatraz; he received no special privileges, but his notoriety made him a target for other cons. Capone got into a fight with another inmate in the recreation yard and was placed in isolation for eight days. While Capone was working in the prison basement, an inmate standing in line waiting for a haircut stabbed him with a pair of shears. Capone eventually became symptomatic from syphilis, a disease he had been carrying for years but had avoided treating. In early 1939 the authorities transferred him to Federal Correction Institute Terminal Island in Southern California to serve out the remainder of his 11-year sentence.
Alcatraz Island Prisoner Delivery - August 22, 1934
Al Capone arrived on the island on August 22, 1934 along with 52 other convicts from Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, Georgia. He had several jobs on the island including sweeping the cellhouse and working in the laundry. Capone was not popular on Alcatraz; he received no special privileges, but his notoriety made him a target for other cons. Capone got into a fight with another inmate in the recreation yard and was placed in isolation for eight days. While Capone was working in the prison basement, an inmate standing in line waiting for a haircut stabbed him with a pair of shears. Capone eventually became symptomatic from syphilis, a disease he had been carrying for years but had avoided treating. In early 1939 the authorities transferred him to Federal Correction Institute Terminal Island in Southern California to serve out the remainder of his 11-year sentence.
August 21, 2012
Tuesday, August 21, 1934
Ironed. Laten came over a while this morning. Pauline bought my book back.
Johannes Stark (15 April 1874 – 21 June 1957)
A German physicist, and Physics Nobel Prize laureate who was closely involved with the Deutsche Physik movement under the Nazi regime, Stark
wrote to physicist and fellow Nobel laureate Max von Laue telling him to toe the party line or else. The letter was signed off with a "Heil Hitler."
In 1947, following the defeat of Germany in World War II, Stark was classified as a "Major Offender" and received a sentence of four years imprisonment by a denazification court.
Johannes Stark (15 April 1874 – 21 June 1957)A German physicist, and Physics Nobel Prize laureate who was closely involved with the Deutsche Physik movement under the Nazi regime, Stark
wrote to physicist and fellow Nobel laureate Max von Laue telling him to toe the party line or else. The letter was signed off with a "Heil Hitler."
In 1947, following the defeat of Germany in World War II, Stark was classified as a "Major Offender" and received a sentence of four years imprisonment by a denazification court.
August 20, 2012
Monday, August 20, 1934
Washed clothes today. It sure was hot. Pauline and Sugar came down this evening a while.
Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 – July 31, 1875)
16th Vice President of the United States (March 4, 1865 - April 15, 1965)
17th President of the United States (1865–1869)
Succeeded President Abraham Lincoln following the latter's assassination
On August 20, 1866, President Andrew Johnson ended the Civil War by signing a Proclamation—Declaring that Peace, Order, Tranquillity [sic], and Civil Authority Now Exists in and Throughout the Whole of the United States of America.
Johnson then presided over the initial and contentious Reconstruction era of the United States following the American Civil War. Johnson's reconstruction policies failed to promote the rights of the Freedmen, and he came under vigorous political attack from Republicans, ending in his impeachment by the U.S. House of Representatives; he was acquitted by the U.S. Senate.
Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 – July 31, 1875) 16th Vice President of the United States (March 4, 1865 - April 15, 1965)
17th President of the United States (1865–1869)
Succeeded President Abraham Lincoln following the latter's assassination
On August 20, 1866, President Andrew Johnson ended the Civil War by signing a Proclamation—Declaring that Peace, Order, Tranquillity [sic], and Civil Authority Now Exists in and Throughout the Whole of the United States of America.
Johnson then presided over the initial and contentious Reconstruction era of the United States following the American Civil War. Johnson's reconstruction policies failed to promote the rights of the Freedmen, and he came under vigorous political attack from Republicans, ending in his impeachment by the U.S. House of Representatives; he was acquitted by the U.S. Senate.
