Random Shots From the Busy Week at the Office
Seane Doe Morris riffs on Kipling while a Columbus woman offers a home remedy for keeping husbands out at night. Jokes land as editors absorb travel, weather, and social quirks from a Nebraska City detour with bandit talk, high school tales, and comic vignettes.
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Columbus
Odd Lodge Meeting Tale From Nebraska City
A Nebraska City lodge meeting recalls a humorous moment when John Miller proposes funds for three cuspidors and a deaf member hijacks the moment by motioning that Miller be one of them. A local blacksmith Otto Winkilehardt is fictionalized as the target of a stubborn hoof-trim request from a tenderfoot rancher named Squint Taylor.
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Nebraska City
John Miller
Nebraska
Otto Winkilehardt
Tenderfoot
Squint Taylor
Taylor
Pansy
Otto
Unclear dialogue on doctors and waiters over charges
A humorous chaos emerges as doctors and lawyers clash over billing after a brief consult. A waiter explains delaying a bill to avoid upsetting a customer, suggesting a strategy to keep patrons satisfied before bad news arrives.
Rialto Screens Coast of Opportunity and Other Highlights
J Warren Kerrigan stars in The Coast of Opportunity at the Rialto tonight as a mining engineer who builds a copper road in Old Mexico, facing rivals with help from a resourceful young woman. Elaine Hammerstein appears in Handcuffs or Kisses, a reform school tale. Thursday brings Pauline Frederick in The Lure of Jade. the program showcases swift dramatic romance and varied plotlines.
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Rialto
J. Warren Kerrigan
Coast of Opportunity
Old Mexico
Elaine Hammerstein
Thomas Edgelow
Pauline Frederick
South Seas Society Woman Turns Mysterious Hostess
A society woman, daughter of a rear admiral, flees luxury to the South Seas seeking escape. There she transforms into an exotic, turbulent hostess running a lodging house and becomes a compelling, mysterious figure in a stellar performance.
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South Seas
Frederick
The Imperial Screens Two Features Tonight
The Imperial presents a strong bill including The Big Town Roundup a wild cowboy tale set in New York City plus Charlie Chaplin pay feature delayed from Sunday and now shown Tuesday and Wednesday with extra thrills.
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Imperial
Tom Mis
New York City
Charlie Chaplin
Coincidence Metro feature at Imperial with a caper of luck
Billy Jenks travels to New York to seek fortune and ends up counting money in a Fifth Avenue store. A bill blown from a window changes his fate when he meets Phoebe Howan. Their romance collides with unemployment as alarm clocks fly and a missed inheritance reshapes their lives in a whirlwind sequence of adventures.
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Imperial
Metro
Billy Jenks
New York
Fifth Avenue
Billy
Phoebe Howan
Thursday Vaudeville Night at the Imperial
Four acts entertain with Bill and Hattie Cari perform a musical novel violin and guitar novelty. Ethel Vaughn, a top circuit comedienne, presents Smiles and Songs of the Day. Cooper and Valli perform Ain’t She Rough. Almond and Hazel offer From Summer to Winter novelty act keeping audiences guessing what comes next.
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the Imperial
Bill
Hattie Car
Ethel Vaughn
Cooper and
Valli
Ringling
Almond and
Hazel
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Seane Doe Morris
Kipling
Big Sixth District
Uncle Mose
Sollom
Gomorrah
Sandhills
Jimmy
Ole Buck
Fred Brown
Sidney
Board of Education
Ma'am
George Snow
Kearney
Sandhill
Glen Miller
Nebraska City Press
Travelers’ and Commercial Letters of Credit
First National Bank Alliance
Imperial Theatre
Tom MIX
Charles Chaplin
Dopsee Brothers
Lincoln Lowry Alliance