HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE STAR'S ARCHIVES
Plan a War Memorial: Mayor Cowgill Asks for Ideas and Outlines Views.
Published Nov. 17, 1918
What do you think Kansas City should do in honor of her homecoming soldiers and in memory of those who will not return? That is the substance of a letter Mayor James Cowgill will send this week to the executive committee of each local organization that has engaged in war work.
Went Over the Top
Published Nov. 6, 1919
Kansas City added another great, big “ Do You Know?” to its list yesterday.
Flame Alight! A Crowd of 100,000 View Solemn Ceremony at the Memorial Site
Published Nov. 1, 1921
Only the hills that cradled the tens of thousands under a vast cerulean sky formed a background for today’s dedication of the site of Kansas City’s memorial to those who died and who fought in the world war. All else was obliterated, as the slopes and valleys of a vanished stream became a great amphitheater of tremendous acreage. The crowd must have been close to one hundred thousand, perhaps more. No one can say.
The Memorial Secret Out: R.A. Long is Revealed as Originator of Liberty Memorial Idea
Published Nov, 8, 1924
A haze of uncertainty has veiled the origin of the Liberty Memorial idea.
Liberty Memorial closing: Deterioration of structure forces move, park director says.
Published Nov, 9, 1994
The Liberty Memorial will be closed immediately because of structural problems.
Cost estimates to fix monument hit $25 million
Published March 11, 1995
The Liberty Memorial is in worse shape than anyone imagined.
New life for Liberty: Voters endorse higher sales tax to fix landmark
Published Aug. 5, 1998
Kansas Citians voted Tuesday to save the Liberty Memorial for generations to come.
Freedom and its many sacrifices saluted at monument's rebirth
Published May 26, 2002
They came out of respect. They came out of remembrance. And they came out of pride. Whatever their reasons, they came because they believed they needed to be here.
Shrine to the Great War passes muster at opening
Published Dec. 3, 2006
A bright yellow biplane swept gracefully against the clouds, red petals fluttered in the breeze, and dozens of white doves took wing Saturday at Kansas City’s Liberty Memorial.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE STAR'S ARCHIVES
From Here to Stardom
Published Dec. 21, 1929
It begins to appear likely the family of another Kansan will have to move to Hollywood and go into the managing business. Word was received today that Jean Harlow, a Kansas City, Kansas, girl who went to the camera colony a short time ago to the extra ranks, has been given the leading feminine role in “Hell’s Angels,” a picture that promises to be the most important release of next year.
A Jean Harlow Ovation
Published Aug. 14, 1930
Jean Harlow may be the villainess in “Hell’s Angels,” but she’s a heroine to the home town.
Jean Harlow is Home
Published Nov. 20, 1930
Jean Harlow, who is twice as good looking as you expect her to be, which is about four times as good looking as any girl has a right to be, arrived in Kansas City today and everybody at the union station and the Hotel Muehlebach took one look at her platinum-blond hair and said, “There ain’t no such animal!”
Jean Is a “Home Girl”
Published Dec. 8, 1931
A grandmother and granddad are about all it takes to make a “home girl” out of a vampire, after all.
Jean a Sleeping Beauty
Published Dec. 8, 1931
Prettier and more platinum than ever, Jean Harlow was a sleeping beauty when a small battery of cameras arrived at 10:30 o’clock today in the hallway of her suite at the Hotel Muehlebach.
Through Trial and Struggle to a Career and Happiness
Published Sept. 18, 1933
The marriage of Jean Harlow, the “platinum blond” of the screen, to Hal Rosson, one of the industry’s “ace” cameramen, was not a surprise to her friends in the movie world and her closest associates in Kansas City.
Invited by Movie Star: S. D. Harlow Will Take First Vacation in 37 Years
Published March 30, 1937
S. D. Harlow, grandfather of Jean Harlow, will take his first vacation in thirty-seven years to visit Holly wood, where his granddaughter is a motion picture star.
Jean Harlow Dies
Published June 7, 1937
Los Angeles, June 7 – Jean Harlow, the platinum blonde film star actress, died at 11:37 o’clock this morning at the Good Samaritan hospital. She was 26 years old.
“Cotton Top” of School Lots Lifts Jean Harlow to Fame
Published June 7, 1937
Jean Harlow, platinum blond screen star, who died in Los Angeles today, was born March 3, 1911, at 3344 Olive street in Kansas City, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Mont C. Carpenter. She was named Harlean, a contraction of her mother’s maiden name, Jean Harlow. When she entered the movies Harlean took her mother’s name and later made it her permanent name by court proceeding.
Shock to Relatives
Published June 8, 1937
Jean Harlow’s grandfather, S.D. Harlow of Kansas City, Kansas, learned of his granddaughter’s death Monday afternoon from a negro woman while the 77-year-old real estate agent was supervising repairs to a clients property.
Public Wonders About Harlow
Published Feb. 11, 1971
Letters seeking information about the late Jean Harlow have been trickling into the Barstow school office here more or less ever since her death June 7, 1937.
