Thursday, September 28, 1933

Walked to school with Pauline and Ruth K and Nadine. Wore my oxfords. I got a blister on my heel. Walked home with Ruth R.

Kansas City's Plaza Art Fair - 1932

During the Depression when many other companies failed, the Country Club Plaza
 looked for new ways to attract customers.  The Plaza Art Fair was started in 1932
 as a promotion to draw shoppers to the area and to lift their spirits.   Held on an empty
 lot on the southwest corner of Nichols Road and Central, where Tiffany & Co. is now
 (see the photo above), 90 artists displayed their paintings by leaning them against trees
 and benches. Paintings were priced from $1 to ten dollars. Artists enjoyed interacting with
each other and having conversations with those in the crowd about their work. All agreed
 it was a successful first-time event and should continue. And continue it has. This year
(2011), more than 250,000 people attended Kansas City's Plaza Art Fair.

Sunday, September 10, 1933

Mother and I went to Sunday School and c hurch. Saw Mrs. Mitchell (former Sunday School teacher). Mother and Daddy and I went over to Raiferts. Ollie came over and we listened to the radio.

James Francis "Jimmy" Durante ((February 10, 1893 – January 29, 1980)

American singer, pianist, comedian and actor whose distinctive clipped
gravelly speech, comic language butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and
large nose helped make him one of America's most familiar and popular
personalities of the 1920s through the 1970s.

On September 10, 1933, Durante appeared on Eddie Cantor's Chase and
Sanborn Hour,continuing until November 12 of that year. When Cantor departed,
Durante took over the NBC show as its star from April 22 to September 30, 1934,
moving on to The Jumbo Fire Chief Program (1935–36).

Durante's radio show was bracketed with two trademarks: "Inka Dinka Doo" as
his opening theme, and the invariable signoff that became another familiar
national catchphrase: "Good night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are."

Sunday, September 3, 1933

Went home today. Left at eight o'clock. Got home at six. Stopped three hours on the way. Had a blowout on front tire.

Noah Nicholas Beery (January 17, 1882 – April 1, 1946)
American actor
Born in Kansas City, Missouri
Died in Beverly Hills, California

Noah Berry appeared in nearly 200 films, acting through the silent
picture era before transitioning to "talkies." His popularity reached its
peak in the 1930s; he played the flamboyant supporting role as Mae
West's bar-owning lover until she leaves him for Cary Grant in the 1933
hit, She Done Him Wrong. In 1945 he went to New York City to star in the
Mike Todd Broadway production Up in Central Park.

Beery's brothers, William and Wallace, were also Hollywood actors. His
son, Noah Beery, Jr., became an extremely successful character actor, with
his most famous role being that of "Rocky", the father of James Garner's
character in the television series The Rockford Files.