Fri., March 27, 1936 - Edwin up here again. Mom did the usual work at school. Howard came after me and I went to lodge. My ankles are swollen. I guess this is caused from sleeping in a chair and having my feet hang down.
Sat., March 28, 1936 - Seemed funny to go to school today. We hurried with classes and dismissed at noon. I sorted school junk and took 3 boxes of stuff home tonite. Card club at Mann's but I couldn't go.
Sun., March 29, 1936 - Ray came home last nite. He and Mom went to church. Annie, Ola, and family came in this a.m. and stayed for dinner. Howard and I saw Will Rogers in "Steamboat Round the Bend" here in Winside tonite. Went out to Nieman's after the show.
School on Saturday must have meant there weren't substitute teachers at the ready for Grandma to call up on short notice. The kids probably weren't thrilled, but at least it was over quickly.
From wikipedia and IMDB re the movie -- "Steamboat Round the Bend" is a 1935 American comedy film directed by John Ford, released by 20th Century Fox and produced by Fox Film, based on the 1933 novel of the same name by author Ben Lucien Burman. It was the penultimate film of star Will Rogers and was released posthumously. It is about a Louisiana con man who enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to find a witness to free his nephew, about to be hung for murder.
Known as "Oklahoma's Favorite Son", Rogers was born to a prominent Cherokee family in Indian Territory (now part of Oklahoma). As an entertainer and humorist, he traveled around the world three times, made 71 movies (50 silent films and 21 "talkies"), and wrote more than 4,000 nationally syndicated newspaper columns.
By the mid-1930s, the American people adored Rogers. He was the leading political wit of his time and was the highest paid Hollywood film star. Rogers died in 1935 with aviator Wiley Post, when their small airplane crashed in northern Alaska. He went on the outing in search of material for his newspaper columns. He brought his typewriter along and typed as they flew.
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