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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1926
Page
6
The advertisement lists entertainment options this week including The Deandi Shavers Dancing Dolls a musical comedy and movie programs and several films such as The American Venus Miss America and Broadway Lady featuring Evelyn Brent in a New York venue.
The Fair showcases The Sea Beast with John Barrymore from Moby Dick, while the Mission screens American Venus a Paramount comedy drama starring Esther Ralston Fay Lanphier and Ford Sterling. Also at Liberty today and tomorrow A Broadway Lady with Evelyn Brent plus Shavers Dancing Dolls musical comedy and daily film programs including The Phantos Express and The Winking Ide. Tomorrow’s feature is the famous First National release.
John Barrymore, star of The Sea Beast, championed adapting Herman Melville’s Moby Dick for screen as America’s great epic of seafaring. The Sea Beast shoots in New Redfont and East Indies locales under Millard Webb with Leatrice Joy, while Tom Moore signs for The Clinging Vine opposite Joy. Various Hollywood casting updates flow as production delays affect The Speeding Venus and Silence, with H B Warner signing for De Mille projects.
An irate woman in Dallas forcefully enters a rooming house at 11 pm with a pistol shouting for her meal ticket. She fires into walls, seizes a trunk claimed as her husband’s, and flees with an automobile containing a man and a woman as police search for her.
Minute interviews capture light remarks from Waco and Amarillo figures. Topics touch on attire for cold weather, nitroglycerine banquet talk, local baseball timing, Rock Island route news, courthouse funding caution, and a job move at Perkins Pros. Co. Also, Mrs Culler reports a strained ankle from a canyon trip.
Stinnett of the railroad committee addressed a large Hutchinson County audience at Plemons. Projects for the new rail line were discussed and county residents pledged cooperation with Rock Island to build a bridge across the Canadian River and move the county seat to the railroad.
Fred Nichols, general manager of the Trinidad Brick and Tile Company of Trinidad Colorado, visits Amarillo to consider locating a large brick plant. He meets H V Robertson and notes confidence in ongoing regional development.
A fragmented OCR passage references a teacher, youth, and a phrase about a cast and fathers reports in a square deal context. Readable parts imply a school or civic moment with potential dialogue about duties and identity. Further readable facts are not present.
Burglars and robbers cracked three safes, entered homes, staged two holdups, and stole sixteen automobiles plus about $900 in money and merchandise Sunday and Monday morning. A white bandit killed Daniel Ford after he resisted a robbery near Southern Pacific shops.
Police hunt a 10 year old boy who grabbed a woman's purse during a church prayer service in Temple. The theft occurred last night as the congregation stood in prayer and the suspect fled into darkness with about $8.
Swiss federal railway distributes gas masks to engineers assistants and guards on freight trains passing the Grand Moutier tunnel due to highly poisoned air inside the tunnel.
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