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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1918
Page
3
Theda Bara stars in a new Salome spectacle wearing twenty five outfits costing fifty thousand dollars to recreate the biblical siren on screen. The lavish accoutrements fuel the drama as Salome schemes among mighty men.
Theda Bara wears twenty five outfits for Salome at the Elite on Monday and Tuesday. Costumes include 100,000 beads and 500 pieces of ancient gold money with 200 yards silver cloth and 100 yards gold cloth. Director Edwards ensured historical accuracy across 5,000 performers and lavish pageantry.
Monday and Tuesday Safome, a child of nature raised in a lavish royal court, longs for John the Baptist. If he had been a healer instead of a scourge, she might have found salvation. Instead she drives him to death and perishes beneath Human soldiers' spikes.
A vintage household health ad urges parents to use California Syrup of Figs for sick and constipated children. It touts rapid stomach and bowel cleansing, claims a teaspoonful cures cross, feverish, and sitive symptoms, and warns to buy only the genuine product from the California Fig Syrup Company.
Miss Amelia Bingham initially demurred when offered a role in the matinee and evening performances for the “Out There” production at the Colonial. She had been the first professional to stage any form of entertainment in the cantonment, preceding the completion of Liberty theatres and the early Y.M.C.A. buildings meant to entertain soldiers.
Miss Bingham, long engaged in war service work, joins the J Hart Manners patriotically themed stage effort. She serves on the State Women's War Relief board and offers talent to comfort soldiers, organizing small entertainment troupes with Mr Edwards of the Y M C A to brighten camps away from home.
The speaker recounts visiting eastern cantonments and speaking with soldiers as she plans to join a theatrical unit to France. The Stage Women’s War Relief led by Mila Crothere and Miss Bingham works tirelessly at a Fifth Avenue space producing surgical bandages and hospital supplies for the troops.
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