vaudeville and cinema chatter in Hollywood and theaters
Industry notes from Hollywood and Amarillo describe the Interstate Orpheum Mission Rialto and Liberty bills featuring The Little Journey The Magic Garden and The Prince of Pep. Stars cited include Claire Windsor Gene Stratton Porter Barbara Bedford Babe Ruth and Janet Gaynor with industry gossip on Sam Katz Fox Wally Beery Monty Banks and Raymond Hatton.
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FAIR
Interstate Orpheum Vaudeville
Claire Windsor
Gene Stratton Porter
Deandi
Ronald Coleman
Rialto
Tentacles of the North
James Oliver Curwood
Liberty
the Prince of
Pep
Richard Talmadge
Koe
Hollywood
Sam Katz
Katz
Europe
Chicago
Barney Balaban
Famous Players- Lasky Theater
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation
Notes Too High
Hazel Glenn, famed for singing from a plane a mile up, says fear made her notes too high to be heard on the ground. The Associated Press reports the stunt and its reception as a bold broadcast experiment from New York on February 28.
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Assocnted Press
New York
Hazel Glenn
Broadway
People and Places Roundup From Amarillo Scene
Mrs Jot Montgomery of McLean visits Mrs R B McAllister at 2401 Harrison. Miss Florence Sullivan spends Sunday in Lubbock with sister Mrs R N White. Mrs Skeeles injuries improved after Thursday highway accident east of town. Mrs O Hara and daughter join in Amarillo and plan Lucerne apartments. Miss Curtis Boyd returns from Oklahoma City business trip. Mr and Mrs Joseph Kantor arrive to make Amarillo home. Kantor with Leader store planning expansion. Mrs P H Bathker visits Clay ton New Mexico friends. Christine Dyche undergoes tonsil operation. Doc Blake family trip to Macon Georgia. Will H Lightfoot, architect, now in Amarillo in Smith building room 47 after Paris tenure. Berlin instrument house uses double-bass view on a tricycle for delivery.
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Jot Montgomery
McLean
R. B. McAllister
Harrison Street
Florence Sullivan
Lubbock
R. N. White
W. FW. Skeeles
George FE. O'Hara
Amarilo
Florence O'Hara
McCormick Advertising Agency
O'Hara
Lucerne Apartments
Curtis Boyd
Amarillo
Oklahoma City
Joseph Kantor
Kantor
Leader Department Store
P. H. Bathker
Clayton
N. M
Christine Dyche
J. R. Dyche
Doc Blake
Lightfoot
Paris
Hanging of Pershing’s orderly for assault in St Louis
Robert Johnson a 29 year old Black man was hanged at the St Louis county jail yard in Clarendon after admitting an attempted robbery and denying the assault. The execution followed a reprieve secured through Gen John J Pershing whose private orderly Johnson had served with during the war in France.
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Associated Press
ST. Louis
Robert Johnson
Johnson
Clarendon
John J. Pershing
Johson
France
Prince William of Sweden Prefers Africa Aboard Chicago Arrival
Prince William of Sweden, arriving in Chicago, said he would choose Africa over U.S. cities for future ventures, citing his travels in Africa and major American markets.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Africa
Prince William
Sweden
Willard Smith Baby Dies at Home
Infant son of Mr and Mrs Willard Smith of 1706 Hughes street died at 6 oclock Sunday night at the family home. Funeral services will be held at 8:30 this afternoon at the residence conducted by Rev G L Yates. Burial will be in Llano cemetery under N S Griggs and Sons direction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Eagan Smith
Willard Smith
Hughes Street
G. L. Yates
Llano Cemetery
N. S. Griggs and Sons
J F Ford Returns From Dallas Hospital
J F Ford assistant to P C Bennett of the Board of City Development has returned from Dallas where he underwent an operation for appendicitis after leaving his former home.
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J. F. Ford
P. C. Bennett
Agricultural Department
The
Board of City Development
Dallas
Whitman School House Sought for Preservation
The Whitman School House in Woodbury New Jersey once attended by Walt Whitman is to be preserved. A buyer paid $18 at auction and resold it for $60 to Whitman admirers with proceeds aiding a new American opera by Deems Taylor and Edna St Vincent Millay.
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Walt Whitman
Auettion
Deems Taylor
Edna St. Vincent Millay
City Public Market Opens On Pierce Street
The City Public Market at 411 Pierce street is nearing opening with building work complete and fixtures being installed. Partners J. D. Stinson and S. R. Hales bring Amarillo grocery and dairy experience to run a modern market with high quality merchandise. The note adds a fact about venomous lizards, the gila monster of Arizona, with fifty poison fangs.
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Pierce Street
J. D. Stinson
S. R. Hales
Stinson
Amarillo
Hales
Hailes
Gila
Arizona
Castoria Proclaimed Safe Gentle Remedy for Infants
The advertisement touts Fletcher's Castoria as a long used harmless substitute for Castor Oil and teething remedies. It claims no narcotics and notes physicians recommend it with directions on each package.
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Fletcher
Canyon Band Signed Up for Borger Fete
Through the Board of City Development Borger has arranged for the Canyon band to furnish music during its birthday celebration on March 8. A large representation from local businessmen planned to attend and would bring the Canyon band for Borger's use. Diamonds remounted while you wait. The Diamond Shop, 811 Polk.
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Board of City Development
Borger
Canyon Band
Wild
Kotex Ad Promotes Sanitary Product Availability
Discards as easily as a tissue and offered without embarrassment at drug and department stores. Simply say Kotex to obtain the genuine product. The ad claims Kotex comes in a 12 in a package and urges trying it for personal fairness and risk reduction.
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KOTEX
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the Mullen
Aimee Sennett
Michael Strogoff
Mission
Oliverd Talmadge
Prince of
Calif
Leslie Fenton
New Wilkes Theater
Barbara Bedford
Chaplin
Vera Veronina
Jean Hersholt
Monty Banks
Lyla Lichtig
Tom Mix
Buck Jones
Tom
Mix
Marceline Day
Alice
Ben Turpin
Babe Ruth
Anna Q. Nilsson
Bambino
Miss Nilsson
KOX
Fox Corporation
Janet Gaynor
Tray Diane
Raymond Hatton
Hatton
Wally Beery
Grove’s
Berlin
Sewell Drug Company
7Th St
Blackburn
Bldg
Paul P. Sewell
John G. Milam
Props
Resinol
Baltimore
Pershing
Dallas Hospital
Whitman School
Woodbury, N., J
City Public Market
Pierce ST
Morrow
Thomas
Bosch Radio
Eli Hoover
Nat Dance Palace
Borger Fete
Diamond Shop
Polk
Py Ellen J
Buckland
Mission Theater
Jules Verne
Ivan Mos
Ivan Moskine
the Social Clearing House of
Marty Young
Lido Orchestra
Margaret Morris
Raymond Keane
Charlie Chase
Juliet
PATHE
Keith-Orpheum Interstate
Homer B. Mason
Marguerite Keeler
Mr. Mason
Ethel Parker
Fred Babb
Philippine
Sibyl
Pearson
Newport
Rhythm
Ernest Hiatt
William Haines
Harry Carey
Fair Theatre
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