The Year Was 1938 – May 13
All Things Robin Hood ‘The Adventures of Robin Hood’ opens – a WB release, directed by Michael Curtiz, with Errol Flynn, Olivia DeHaviland, Basil Rathbone, Alan Hale. Also opening –…
The Latest on Diary of the End of the World
It will be available for pre-orders soon. Ebooks and paperbacks. Hardbound version will not be possible as the page count (685 pages) exceeds the limit for Amazon’s press. Stay tuned…
Three Kings Went Forth – a Christmas Memory
A Small Town Christmas Green and red. And flashing lights. The day after Thanksgiving in Colville, all the decorations came out to festoon the lamp poles. And even bigger ones…
The Year Was 1938 – May 12
• Shirley Temple is appointed sponsor of National Airmail Week. She is visited on the set of ‘Little Miss Broadway’ for the presentation by acting Postmistress of Los Angeles, Mary…
Dead Heat My Little Chickadee
School and the Playground I can only remember two things about school for the first and second grades: the playground and the assembly auditorium. I have class pictures with the…
The Year Was 1938 – May 11
What Katie Did or Didn’t Katharine Hepburn refuses to play in ’Mother Carey’s Chickens’ at RKO. She entered into negotiations to cancel out of her contract (she’d been with them…
Dick Tracy Rides Again
Moved to New Digs By the time I hit the first grade, our family had moved one street over to Maple. In fact, it was the first home that my…
The Year Was 1938 – May 10
News at the Studios 20th Century Fox calls off their 2 million dollar building plan for two reasons: 1) the unsettled state of the foreign markets, and 2) the current…
A Critic is Born (or Acts Out)
Tripping on Elm Street About the time I was in kindergarten, my family lived on Elm Street in Colville. I don’t remember very much about the house but I do…
The Fire of Regret
Unexamined lives Reflecting out Instead of in Unfettered eyes Roam the wide earth In search of sin Knowing not your worth Seeking for love And selling short When challenged by…