Ruth Auland Turns Producer Heads Her Own Company
Ruth Auland, popular serial star, launches her own film company and plans to produce two movies per year.
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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1920
Page
9
Ruth Auland, popular serial star, launches her own film company and plans to produce two movies per year.
American Bill Hart stars in John Petticoats at the Ansonia with William Farnum in Wings of the Morning on Broadway at Pantages and Orpheum vaudeville. Empress stock company presents Please Get Married. Rialto screens Desert Gold. Bert Lytell leads The Lion's Den at Liberty.
Ruth Roland becomes head of Ruth Roland Serials Inc and will produce two serials yearly for Pathe Exchange. Her first project is The Adventures of Ruth, with Gilson Willets co writing the story drawn from Roland’s own idea.
A Paramount Artcraft production segment at the American theater features Bill Hart in John Petticoats. Hart deserts his lumber boss job to run a New Orleans modiste shop as spring hats and lingerie are showcased to audiences and extras. The crowd asks for more looks as the exhibition ends.
Desert Gold by Zane Grey plays at the Rialto through tomorrow night. Two men meet in a desert storm as a father vows to kill the son he accuses of eloping with his daughter. The show includes local musical acts John McCarthy and John McCormack, with the Rialto orchestra and organ.
For 30 years a best selling novel adaptation titled Told in the Hills is on view at the Orpheum theater today as a Paramount Aircraft attraction. Major Robert Warwick leads with Ann Little Eileen Percy Wanda Hawley Charles Ogle Tom Forman and Monte Blue in a distinguished supporting cast. A thrilling West of 1890 tale well worth seeing.
J R Wotring sales manager of Baird Harper Lumber Co Warland says 1920 will be a banner year for Montana lumber basing forecast on last four months of 1919. He notes early 1919 was disastrous but year end brought activity driven by construction demand and higher sales.
South Side club members voted to seek an independent post office for the area. Petitions will be circulated among residents today, with a committee appointed to lead the effort. Speakers urged that the current postal service is inadequate in the district.
James W. Lichter, a performer on the Pantages vaudeville bill at the Broadway, is doing government work after the war. He urges universal military training as vital for national security. Lichter previously recruited for the war, served as a captain at Seagirt New Jersey, and holds letters from Wilson, Daniels, and Wood thanking him for his enlistment work. He left recruitment to avoid leaving uniform.
Butte Electric Railway shows nearly $80,000 deficit for 11 months of 1919. Receipts total $642,940 against expenses of $722,230. Manager Wharton says local railways face decisive action to continue operations as wages rise nationwide and free up earnings. He notes wages consume 65 to 70 percent of gross income in Butte, higher than the 55 to 60 percent national average, with autos impacting earnings.
Special Dispatch to the Standard reports the Northern Pacific depot at Garrison, about 12 years old and described as a very good structure, was totally destroyed by fire yesterday morning. With communications cut off, news of the loss arrived late. temporary telegraph and telephone headquarters were set up in the freight depot.
The People's theater will undergo extensive remodeling and refurbishment and close for at least 30 days. Manager Myrick of Jensen & Von Herberg announced plans including loves and a smoking room, new decorations and recarpeting. A line of high class pictures will be secured for first run in Butte during the work.
Clarence Turton appears as Taung Si Ah in William Farnum’s Wings of the Morning at the Ansonia theater. The photodrama adapts Louis Tracy’s novel with Turton delivering a forceful villainous performance among pirates in the China seas. Burton, a Missouri native, rose from juvenile leads to featured parts in stock and road companies and later vaudeville.
At a late meeting inside electricians said they would not enforce their demand for a rise from eight to nine dollars until the Building Trades council decides. The council is set to vote Wednesday evening on the proposed conference between employers and employees.
The second revival meeting at Mountain View Methodist Church featured Rev O G Ragan with The Good Samaritan as his subject. He urged personal church involvement and shared quotes about pulpit impact and ordinary people achieving much for Christ. The series runs with all city Methodist churches cooperating into January. Mrs Ragan will address the women’s mass meeting on January 11 at Mountain View church.
Census enumerators for Silver Bow county including Butte and Walkerville start counting today after receiving their instructions and supplies. Sixty seven workers were commissioned. most planned to begin this morning with a few already at it yesterday afternoon. By noon officials expected all in the field and work to be in progress by evening.
The retirement of John Barleycorn does not obviate the need for comprehensive new year resolutions. Washington Star notes continued focus on temperance and reform efforts as the year begins.
An early 20th century advert claims impure blood endangers vital organs and causes diseases like rheumatism catarrh malaria and eczema. It touts S. S. S. as a blood cleanser used for over 50 years and promotes mail literature from Swift Laboratory Atlanta Georgia.
The piece explains aspirin benefits for toothache earache and pain and instructs buyers to always say Bayer when purchasing. It notes the Bayer Cross logo on the package and tablets and mentions small tin boxes of twelve tablets cost a few cents with druggists selling larger Saline packages.
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