Dear Miss Dix Advised to escape old fashioned home life
A collection of letters from readers in 1924 offering guidance. A twenty year old laments isolation under a clingy mother and old Victorian norms. Dorothy Dix urges patience, no flight, and planning to fit into modern society. A fifteen year old seeks help with a cruel stepmother and education as path to independence. An engaged, non demonstrative fiancé prompts advice to avoid excessive sentiment and focus on steadfast, respectful love.
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Miss Dix
The Drews Give a Party Chapter Twenty Four
Helen Drew and Peter Drew stage a party as two circles of friends converge. Elizabeth Brace disapproves of the union, Helen’s old crowd arrives late, and Helen struggles to entertain Peter’s guests while facing unfamiliar social tensions.
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Peter Drew
Helen Marshall
Bob Powers
Terese
Elizabeth Brace
Helen
Peter
Peters
Drews
Elizabeth
George
Seaview
Warmine
The Fair Nellie Cloak Model at Liberty and Mission
A brief notice highlights a silent era program featuring Nellie the cloak model with Claire Windsor at The Fair. It also mentions The Liberty show with a 31,000 reward, The Ghost City, and Sinclair Lewis’s Babbitt adaptation at The Mission starring Willard Louis and Big Boy Williams.
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Liberty
Nellie the Beautiful Cloak Model at Fair theater
The Goldwyn production Nellie the Beautiful Cloak Model stars Claire Windsor Lew Cody and Mae Busch with Lilyan Tashman in her screen debut. The melodrama follows Nellie kidnapped from home who must work to care for her sick father as she becomes a modiste apprentice. The film features fast moving thrills including a New York elevated train sequence and a dramatic shop fire.
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Nellie
Claire Windsor
Lew Cody
Goldwyn
Goldwyn- Cosmopolita
Owen Davis
Emmett Flynn
Goldwyn Studios
Fair Theater
Mae Busch
Hobart Mosworth
Raymond Griffih
Edmund Lowe
Lilyan Tashman
Follies
New York
Nelile
Lucien Andrie
Helen's awkward party leaves her craving downtown studio vibe
Helen feels exposed and anxious as Peter's new wife is scrutinized at a downtown party. Bee Halliday plays the clown to ease tension while Helen fears social pressure, a split crowd forming as the evening ends with Betty inviting her to lunch. (To Be Continued)
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Helen
Peter
Elizabeth
George
Bee Halliday
Betty
Mrs. Norris
Bee
Norris
Curtains For Kitchen Window In Oilcloth
New idea for hire presents sanitary attractive kitchen curtain designs. Oilcloth in pretty colors cut to window length about twelve inches wide with scalloped edges. Weights sewn to hem bottom and cement silhouettes for decoration. Washable with soap and water. table cloths can match for coordinated decor.
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Dorothy DIX
Peole
Rem
Mathers
Hannens
Bard
Bae
Medorm
Noor
Devine
Opt
Pet
Cody Bota Geet
PD Geek Cyeeretevet
Pablo Ledger Company
Sarah R. Woolley
Channing
Big Boy Williams
Chamber of Commerce
Babbitt
Warner Brothers
Sinclair Lewis
Mission
Central Presbyterian Sunday School
Upehureh
Canyon
Warner Bros. Production
Harry Beaumont
A. Warner Bros
J. R. Tucker
Clarendon
William Fox
Dantes Cassichen
Otto Erooucron
Emmett Flynis
Owen Navis
Wwrieten
Carey Wilson
Gordon Country Club
of Canyon
Amarillo
Hereford
L. J. Royal
Willard Louis
Carmel Myers
Mary Alden
Cissy Fitzgerald
Raymond McKee
Dale Fuller
Jack Dempsey
Him
Tarhand
Warner Bro
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