Friday, September 7, 1934

Went to the Murray Show and saw Little Miss Marker again with Nadine and Pauline. Saw Freckles in person.

Freckles and his Friends - 1934

Freckles and his Friends was a popular American comic strip set in the peaceful small town of Shadyside where young Freckles McGoosey and his friends live. Although the long-run strip, created by Merrill Blosser, is remembered for its continuing storyline involving a group of teenagers, it originally featured a child at the age of six or seven in gag-a-day situations.

Illustrated by Blosser and later by Henry Formhals (1908-1981), Freckles and His Friends was ghostwritten by Fred Fox (1903-1981). A gagwriter for Groucho Marx and Judy Canova, Fox scripted for radio, television and films. Widely syndicated by Newspaper Enterprise Association, Freckles and His Friends had a long run through much of the 20th Century.

Thursday, September 7, 1933

I lost my mirror. This evening I done all my lessons. Helen came down and we went and got us eacher book.

Lady for a Day premieres on September 7, 1933

Starring Jean Parker, Warren William, Glenda Farrell,
May Robson and Guy Kibbee

Produced and Directed by Frank Capra

"Apple Annie" is a near destitute street peddler who has invented the false 

identity of a wealthy matron of high society in letters to her daughter who has

been raised in Spain. The ruse is threatened when the daughter becomes engaged

to a Spanish nobleman's son, and his family insists upon meeting the daughter's

family prior to the nuptials. When Annie learns they are all coming from Spain to

 visit her, she becomes near-suicidal until "Dave the Dude," her dubious crime-boss

 benefactor, finds her.

Dave is a local racketeer with a superstitious sense of responsibility for

Annie's welfare, convinced that buying her apples has been what maintains

 what maintains his good luck in the various underworld schemes he manages.

He enlists his criminal associates in a plot to fool the soon-to-arrive nobleman, 

son and daughter, by dressing up his cronies and rehearsing them on proper etiquette.

He puts Annie into a luxury apartment, equips her with a respectable husband

 (actually a local pool shark) named Judge E. Worthington Mansville. But

 the scheme goes an unexpected path when Annie becomes more than convincing

 as a dignified and maternal woman.

NOTE: This is a wonderful movie. If you haven't seen it, rent it. And enjoy!