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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1924
Page
5
Dorothy Dix offers a Thanksgiving appeal urging public thanks to God and, more deeply, to family. She argues fathers, mothers, and husbands deserve heartfelt gratitude for sacrifice, guidance, and daily support, proposing words of appreciation would renew purpose and joy in the home.
Mary Hayward, famed American beauty, marries Sir Nigel Cavendish after a misunderstanding with Bruce Gillian. Gillian sails to Alaska while Mary, in Italy, seeks release after agreeing to remain Cavendish's nominal wife for six months. A newspaper story sparks rumors as Mary heads east to clear her name and confront a past that haunts her.
The listing highlights showings at The Fair including Coast Time Vaudeville and Lone Star Ranger starring Tom Mix. Also featured are The Mission Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall and a Mary Pickford film marking her screen return. The Liberty presents The Fast Express with William Duncan and the final episodes of Leatherstocking and In Wrong Right with Leo Maloney.
Mary Pickford delivers a thrilling stunt in a United Artists feature at the Mission theater. She rides a wall twelve to fourteen feet high to reach her lover in danger from Elizabeth’s soldiers, leaping a gap where stones are displaced. Pickford credits horseback training from Bevers Hills and says riding comes from cavalry practice. The film, a Thanksgiving offering, will run tomorrow and Saturday with popular prices. it recently drew $1.50 in Dallas and two dollars top in Chicago. Ross Rogers, the Mission manager, calls it the most captivating Mary Pickford performance yet.
Levy, manager of the Fair Theater, touts a top-notch five act vaudeville bill for the holiday weekend. Acts include Jules Equille the so called world’s greatest athlete, Hafter and Paul in Even as You and I, Art Phillips the Merry Entertainer, Schepp’s dog and monkey circus, and the Willard Brothers banjo duo. Feature film is The Lone Star Ranger with Tom Mix, a Zane Grey Texas ranger story.
A widowly boardinghouse exchange reveals a sharp barter over rent and sociability as a star boarder is told his room is better than his company due to nonpayment. The dialogue hints at practical humor amid tense shelter economics.
At the Liberty theater today the feature is In Wrenge Right starring Leo Maloney with a Western appeal. The main draw is the new Universal Chapterplay The Fast by William Duncan which features a thrilling high risk race over moving freight cars. Edith Johnson co stars in the chapterplay. Also shown is the final episode of the popular Weatherstocking serial.
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