Mary Pickford the world’s richest working actress profile
A London Daily Express piece portrays Mary Pickford as a genial yet sharp business figure. It traces her rise from Gladys Smith in Chatham Ontario to a cinema icon earning millions, managing finances, and guarding royalties while sustaining a relentless work ethic.
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Daily Express
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Gladys Smith
Broadway
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World drama Tinsel screens at His Majesty's Theatre
The evening program featured Kitty Gordon Muriel Ostriche and Frank Mayo in the drama Tinsel. The plot follows a mother guiding her daughter through suitors as a bachelor’s misstep creates danger, with a rescue ending. A Pathe Gazette reel and a Keystone comedy accompany the feature, and a new serial Lightning Raider debuts tonight.
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Muriel Ostriche
Frank Mayo
His Majesty's Theatre
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Hig ‘Majesty's Theatre
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Wightning
Tom Norton
Wu Fang
Last Man at Gallipoli Evacuation Claim Debunked
General Ryrie says only one man was the true last to leave Gallipoli during evacuation. Sir Granville tells the welcome home tale recalling a lone listener in a tunnel and a parade of brave but tragic incidents as Australians departed. The Turks were misled about the timing and the withdrawal.
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Ryrie
Granville
Sydney
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Fragmentary OCR Nonsense From Historical Page
Disjointed lines mention health terms and beverages with unclear meaning. The text appears as garbled OCR with phrases about beards monkeys vim vigor and saline but no coherent events, people, or places to identify a news item.
Educational Institute backs school control over cadet drills
At Wellington meeting the Educational Institute endorses Education Department control of all pupil classes during school hours and calls for advance drill timetable notices. A remit favors a government film bureau to supply educational moving pictures. Officers elected include President W Philips and Treasurer A Erskine.
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Pahiattta
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Defence Department
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Purchase
A. Erskine
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Ifs and alternate histories shape early world events
The passage explores how pivotal moments might have altered history, from the fall of the Bastille to Plassey and Wolfe at Quebec. It reflects on how choices and chance echo through Napoleon, Cromwell, Clive, and Stephenson, on fate and national outcomes.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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Oliver Cromwell
England
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Cromwell
India
Plassey
Surajah Dowlah
Clive
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Canada
Quebec
Wolfe
North America
George Stephenson
Britain
America
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