Christmas Day in Neufchateau as Yankee Division Celebrates
The 1917 Christmas in Neufchateau saw the Yankee Division swap drills for a festive holiday. A Company hosts a turkey dinner, soldiers receive mail and awards, and Captain Joe McConnell leads a concert. The mood blends joy with the looming trench dawn. French troops join in song and affection, sealing wartime comradeship.
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Turkey
Larry Connery
Fred Whitten
Andy Bernard
Jack Gillespie
Mark King
Nancy
Guard House
Jimmy McIntee
Ward and Vokes
Joseph W. McConnell
Jimmy
Joe
Constantine Talks with American Reporters After Return to Athens
King Constantine in Athens in a general’s uniform discusses Greece’s conciliatory stance toward the Allies and cabinet stability. He notes uncertainty among British and French ministers over remaining in Athens and confirms status updates for Madame Aspasia Manos and Princess Anastasia.
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Switzerland
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Anastasia
William B. Leeds
New York
Post Santa fund tops 23 thousand with 150000 aided
The Post Santa Claus Fund reports aid to more than 150,000 poor children in about 32,000 bundles during a record Christmas season. Simon Swig provided rent free space. volunteers, including Boston University students and sailors, assembled and delivered gifts using 1200 automobiles. Total contributions reach $23,630.42 with many individual donations listed.
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Earthquake in Tepeleni District Kills and Displaces Hundreds
An Albanian earthquake in Tepeleni District leaves forty two dead and around 200 injured with about 500 homeless. Casualties are low due to sparse population, as many residents had fled amid prior devastations from warfare with Jugoslav forces.
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Tirana
Albanai
Tepeleni
Screen Gossip on Mr Glass the Paris-born Actor
The Paris-born screen newcomer won second prize for comedy acting at the Conservatoire as a youth and later joined Sarah Bernhardt for ten years on her US tour. He debuted with Marguerite Clark in Lets Elope and stars in Cameron of the Royal Mounted. He is not married.
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Paris Conservatoiie
Mr. Glass
Sarah Bernhardt
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United States
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Cameron
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Marguerite Clark Finishes Film to Spend Christmas in New Orleans
Marguerite Clark worked every night for two weeks to finish Scrambled Wives so she could spend Christmas Eve with her husband N Palmer ston Williams in New Orleans. The trip is brief as she begins a new picture back in New York at year’s start.
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Marguerite Clark
New Orleans
N. Palmerston Williams
New York
Louisiana
Miss Clark
Roy Stewart Plays Three Leading Roles in New Films
Roy Stewart, famed screen Westerner, headlines three recent pictures. In The Money Changers Claire Adams is his lead actress, Fritzi Brunette rivals him in The Devil to Pay, and in The Mistress of Shenstone he stars opposite Pauline Frederick.
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Mr. Stewart
Pauline Frederick
Raymond Hatton Describes His Hat Collection Tactics
Raymond Hatton, noted for his varied film roles, explains his hat collection origins. He states he stole some, retrieved others from pawn shops, found two in the gutter, and designed the remaining hats himself.
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Goldwyn
Mr. Hatton
Vault Holds Alice Film Record, Not His Money
Tom Moore preserves a large fireproof vault containing motion pictures of his young daughter Alice, recording her growth from infancy onward as a personal family archive.
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Tom Moore
Alice
Child’s Growth From Rattle to Reading Shared
A brief note traces a child’s development from learning to walk with a rattle to current interests in story books and spelling words.
Great Air Robbery and Screen Star Notes
Norma of Maine Milton Elliott is the man you mean in The Great Air Robbery. Viola Dana and Bert Lyteil have never played on screen together. Address Sylvia Breamer and Josephine Hill the Mabel Condon Exchange Hollywood. Kenneth Harlan 318 East Forty-eighth Street New York. Forrest Stanley Lasky Studios Hollywood. Cullen Landis Goldwyn Studios Culver City. Wilda Bennett in Boston at the Colonial Theatre in Apple Blossoms. Send 20 cents each for their pictures. Kenneth Harlan not married. Fannie Ward in Paris married to Jack Dean aged 45. H D South Acton address Edmund Lowe care Metro Studios Los Angeles. D D Braintree I do not know Theda Bara's address. Irene Castle Canwood Films New York. D S C Earle Williams still acting latest picture The Romance Promoters. Address questions to Prunella Hall The Boston Post Boston. Carrie L Revere I do not know Miss Payne's address as she is not in prc-
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Girl 16 Is Sent to Lancaster School for Girls
Alice Mooney, 16, daughter of Mrs. William Mooney of Springfield, was arrested after refusing to answer questions. Judge Bacon sentenced her at West Newton police court to Lancaster School for Girls for being a stubborn child after she refused to go home with her mother. She initially withheld her identity but later gave her name to the matron.
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Woman Run Down by Auto in Quincy Business District
Mrs A T Miner of 98 Bayview Avenue Houghs Neck was struck by an automobile on Hancock Street in Quincy yesterday afternoon. She had Christmas bundles in her arms and the driver fled the scene. Police are investigating a number given by a spectator. Miner was bruised and shaken and taken home.
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