Phantom of the Opera in Hollywood lights up Fair crowd
The piece highlights the Paris Opera house scale in a Hollywood epic with Lon Chaney in makeup and a six ton chandelier stunt. It notes an unconventional love story and the film's release at the Fair next Monday. Also screened is Paramount's Lord Jim with Percy Marmont, tracing an English seaman's fall and redemption amid piracy, treachery, and a Rajah’s realm.
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Paris Opera House
Hollywood
Lon Chaney
Thia
Lord Jim
Paramount
Joseph Conrad
Percy Marmont
Bankok
Patusan
India
Lord Jim and War Dramas Show at Local Theatres
The pages review Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim as a powerful tale of faith and guilt with a decisive ending as a rajah shoots the titular hero. It also highlights vaudeville acts at the Fair including Raymond Hatton Noah Beery and Shirley Mason and notes Hoot Gibson's The Calgary Stampede opening tomorrow at the Mission.
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Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad
Paramount
Percy Marmont
Shirley Mason
Fea
Patusan
Jim
Raymond Hatton
Noah Beery
Nine Die In Jail Mutiny At Pyapun India
In Pyapun jail lower Burma a mutiny led by a death sentenced killer left nine inmates dead and twenty four wounded. Police responded after a clash with guards claimed further casualties including four guards and several prisoners. The mutiny ended with authorities surrounding the cell blocks and prisoners later surrendering or being subdued.
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Associated Press
Rangoon
India
Twant
Pyapun
Lower
Burma
Voices and opinions from Amarillo across West Texas
Half Minute Interviews features quotes praising Plainview singer Jake Burkett and a Fordson tractor lifting a boiler atop the Amarillo building. Residents reflect on Hereford, Deaf Smith County, and Amarillo’s status as a West Texas hub with ties to the upcoming West Texas Chamber of Commerce gathering.
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Howard Williams
Jake Burkett
Plainview
the Panhandle
Mr. Burkett
Hereford and
Deaf Smith County
Texas
R. Q. Lea
Cisco
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
Amarillo
Tiny Town miniature village draws Denver visitors
A Denver businessman creates Tiny Town in Turkey Creek canyon. The sculpture shows staged streets and an eight story building as a major attraction along the mountain park drives, grown from a modest start into a multi-acre display to divert city visitors.
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Associated Press
Denver
Mountain Park
Krown Turner
Turkey Creek Canyon
T. D. Moss
Hereford
Indian Graveyard Restored at Mission San Jose Site
The Associated Press reports 1000 Ohlone Indians buried near Mission San Jose are honored as the parish restores the adobe cemetery along the highway between Mission San Jose and Irvington thirty miles south of Oakland. A stone cross bears 1797 1915 and marks the graveyard where four thousand Ohlone slept.
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Associated Press
Oakland
Cal
Mission San Jose
Irvington
Mission San Jose de Guadalupe
Tiny Town Era Dreamed By George L Turner On Mountain Plans
George L Turner once conceived outdoor diversions including a miniature lake steamship system ranches farms and a Cathedral spire on Jevel with a six foot man head. He aimed to build Tiny Town across from his mountain summer home after an earlier horse accident limited his sports activity. He now says his chief diversion after lunch is smoking a strong cigarette.
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George L. Turner
Pon
Sousa
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