Here comes 1932

December 30, 1931 - It's been rainy all day.  Edwin came in with Ray today.  He's going with us to Kennard tomorrow but I doubt if we go, the weather's terrible.  Mother went to Country Club at Pryor's this afternoon.  Edwin, Florence, Ray and I went to Chester Witte's to Leona's party tonite, but we were the only ones there.  We played cards, had lunch and then came home.
December 31, 1931 - It started snowing this morning and has snowed all day.  Florence and Mrs. Schellenberg came up this afternoon.  This evening we were down there.  We played cards and danced.  Willard called up and said they were postponing their Watch Party.  This snow put an end to our plans on going to Washington and Kennard.
....[extra note at the back of the diary:  Chris Brogren was at the party dance at Norfolk Feb. 13.  He didn't feel very good.  He didn't go back to work Feb. 16.  Stayed home in bed.  Got up Thurs. or Fri., went to Norfolk Sat., to see Bernice Sunday, Feb. 22.  Had a relapse, and back to bed.  Doctor gave up all hope Wednesday Mar. 4.  Meta came Thursday morning at about 10 o'clock.  He died at about 7 o'clock the evening of March 5 from pneumonia.  Emelie couldn't come for the funeral......]
January 1, 1932 - All of us slept late this morning.  We had a chicken for dinner.  Florence, Edwin, Ray and I went to the show, Buster Keaton in "Sidewalks of New York."  It was rather silly.  On the way down to Florence's I fell down and tore the knee of my stocking and skinned my knee.  It quit snowing this morning.

I found the plot of the movie and it does sound a bit silly in the reading.  The article said it was Buster Keaton's most successful commercial film, so some people must have liked it.  Here it is:

     Harmon (Keaton) is a wealthy landlord. When he goes to visit one of his tenements, he gets caught in the middle of a brawl between groups of kids, one of whom, Clipper Kelly starts to attack Harmon. When Harmon defends himself, he is seen by Clipper's sister, Margie. Harmon falls in love at first sight and begins to woo her following his trial for attacking Clipper. In order to demonstrate that he is okay, Harmon opens a gymnasium for the street boys, but Clipper, who has fallen in with a small-time gangster, Butch, wants nothing to do with Harmon and turns the other boys against him.  Harmon tries to win them over by staging a wrestling match with his friend Poggle and a rigged boxing match with Mulvaney. In the meantime, Butch has gotten Clipper involved in a series of robberies with Clipper dressed as a woman. When Butch and Clipper believe Harmon has learned of their activities, Butch orders Clipper to kill Harmon during a stage play that is being performed at the gymnasium, but Clipper gets cold feet. Butch grabs Harmon, who is dressed in Clipper's drag costume, and heads up to Harmon's mansion to rob it. Butch's gang joins them and Clipper and the other boys come to Harmon's rescue.