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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1915
Page
17
A fragmentary readers notes a series of film titles and tag lines featuring Theda Bara and other 1920s era stars. The items describe provocative descriptions such as The Handmaiden of Hell and The Double Standard, with references to values of time and censorship debates.
Geraldine Farrar shines as Carmen in the Jeane Lasky picturization, delivering a feral yet tender portrayal that ranges from tigerish impulse to intimate surrender. The review lauds Farrar’s depth, emotional range, and study of feminine motive, contrasting her performance with later screen icons and noting other film tidbits and industry ads interwoven in the piece.
Marguerite Clark surveys the charred remains after a studio fire that destroyed the Pomova Players set. A pink slipper from Wildflower survives as a sole memento and Blanche Sweet plans a special train to return trunks from New York. Ohio censors ban Hype Rites, with possible fight to exhibit in Oblo.
Universal presents a two day feature starring Charles Brickley Harvard football captain and famed toe explaining football drills through close ups actual play and instruction Brickley’s film outlines running and tackling methods across major colleges as the college season opens a timely athletic picture shown Tuesday and Wednesday.
Flora Zabelle, famed stage star, will reprise her original role in The Red Widow. The film to be produced by Famous Players Film and shown at Paramount theaters casts George D. Mack as Fovova and John Hendricks as Baron Scorpiot with Denman Malley for Cuero Hannibal Butta.
In a vivid reminiscence Miss Zabelle lists her past performances including The Kiss Welts and The Pearl Maid en, naming Nella Baroness von Bernau Nadine and Pinkerton Kerr. She recalls Elsa Ryan, Adele Rowland, Ivan Davenport and others, notes The Red Widow's witty plot, and expresses eagerness to begin work with talk of a wireless station.
European and American readers react as Heinemann publishes The Private Lives of William II and His Consort. Five hundred London copies are burned by order of the Kaiser in Berlin. The diary of Countess von Eppinghoven, royal warden’s aide, is cited and the author Fischer, of noble lineage, praises the work as a masterful expose of palace life and political history.
The Mell Baptist association Woman's Missionary Union met at Nashville Baptist Church. Delegates from across south Georgia joined in a noon dinner and program with Welcome by Mrs Eve of Tifton and other addresses. Officers for the coming year were elected, including district chairman Mrs Goodman of Sparks and several secretaries from Nashville, Sparks, Tifton and Willacoochee.
Georgia industry leaders join the war on the Mexican boll weevil with a call from H C Ponder of Rutledge to cotton seed crushers and allied workers. The campaign urges immediate action across farming, oil mills, stores, and banks, highlighting pest danger and urging use of the Georgia State Board of Entomology pamphlet on control methods.
James P Faulkner secretary and executive head of the Raoul Foundation in Georgia leads a Atlanta delegation to the National Anti Tuberculosis Association southern session in Columbia S C Governor Harris appointed the travel party which includes Dr F Harris Dr A H Bunce Dr W Quillian Dr J W Foster Mrs F E Hodgson Miss Chloe Jackson Rhoda Kaufman Miss Isma Dodds Professor John Hope Kendell Weisger H H Pace W J Trent G W Moore and S W Walker Thirty more delegates from towns and states will attend Faulkner will speak at the session and report on progress in Georgia crusade against the white plague.
Dallas community builds a ten room brick school with auditorium and steam heat. Aiming to boost library facilities teachers and youths form an amateur dramatic club, staging a Sunday concert in the capacity auditorium featuring a mock wedding conducted by Rev. James Baker.
The state board of education met in a regular quarterly session at the capital yesterday and transacted only routine business. Discussion on prompt payment of teachers was noted, but no decisions will be made until the next quarterly meeting.
General Manager David Laird of Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph announces changes effective November 1. Beck of Savannah district becomes commercial superintendent, with Savannah HQ. Henley moves from Waycross to Savannah district manager. Brinson from Brunswick becomes manager at Waycross. Jourdan named Brunswick manager, Brown from Atlanta publicity office becomes Jacksonville chief canvasser.
In Flemington, the Liberty county board of education voted 2 to 2 to keep Miss Laura Fraser as school principal for another year. An appeal argued nepotism and prior agreement influenced the appointment, but the state superintendent’s decision upheld the principal and the appeal was dismissed after lengthy hearings with legal counsel from Savannah and Atlanta.
Charles W Hubbard longtime Rose Hill cemetery sexton and Macon resident died at 2 in a local sanitarium after an extended illness caused by Brights disease. He was a Mason Knight of Pythias Red Man and Shriner member. Survived by widow three brothers and three sisters. Burial tomorrow with Masonic honors.
Barney Williams and his Girls entertain at the Forsyth Theatre in a lively show. The performance features Williams’ comic songs and dancing acts delivering lighthearted entertainment for local audiences.
An old home remedy revived as Wyeths Sate and Sulphur Compound promises to restore natural color to gray hair. A downtown druggist notes it darkens hair evenly, and results appear by morning with subsequent applications producing dark, glossy, soft, and abundant hair.
A man from Jasper Alabama reports seven years of Pellagra cured after using Baughn’s remedy. He attributes recovery to the treatment, urges others to seek the free Pellagra book, and notes his return to work post four days of beginning the medicine. The ad-like letter claims the remedy offers hope and refunds money if it fails.
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