House of Peril Entangles Durrane and Detectives
In New York a hidden crime unfolds at a Fifth Avenue mansion. Captain Stuart, detective Furneaux, and the Ace Club circle uncover a poisoned murder and planned alibis as Durrane's schemes clash with Mary Dixon's engagement and Adirondack camps. The case tightens around loyalties, disguises, and perilous secrets.
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Furneaux
Stuart
U. S
Mary Dixon
Own
London
Winter
New York
Besson
France
Aillie Dixon
Baker
Dyrrane
Erningham
Ace Club
van Cortland
Adirondacks
Fifth Avenue
Coleman van Cortland
Captain Stuart
Dixons
Durrane
Sans Souci
Chief Winter
Hee
Screen Gossip Highlights Claire Windsor Rising Star
Screen Gossip lauds Claire Windsor as one of the best dressed on screen and a top dramatic actress in John M. Stahl's One Clear Call. Mentioned as a standout since Lois Weber promoted her in Too Wise Wives What Do Men Want To Please One Woman What's Worth While. Windsor lives with her mother and four year old son Billy in a Hollywood bungalow.
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Goldwyn
Claire Windsor
John M. Stahl
Miss Windsor
Lois Weber
Billy
Hollywood
Pearl White to Return as Duchesse in July Aerial Career
Rumors say Pearl White will resume her aerial act under the Pathe banner when she returns to America in July. She is repeatedly linked with the Duc de Vallambrosa, who accompanies her in Paris as the music hall favorite of Parisian theatregoers.
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Pearl White
Pathe
Duc de Vallambrosa
Miss White
Paris
Actress Dons Blackface in Blue Blood Stage
In Witn erpod’s Blue Blood Alice Calhoun performs with heavy padding to portray a portly negro man of all work. Calhoun weighs 113 pounds and the character tips the scales near 300, producing a notably humorous transformation on stage.
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Alice Calhoun
Alice
Miss Calhoun
Darkey
Buck Jones Stars in Trooper O'Neil Film
Buck Jones, popular Fox cowboy star, is busy filming Trooper O'Neil a Northwest Mounted Police story Beatrice Burnham plays the leading lady.
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Buck Jones
Fox Cowboy
Trooper O'Neil
Northwest Mounted Police
Beatrice Burnham
Norma Talmadge’s Versatile Screen Roles Spotlighted
The article highlights Norma Talmadge’s prolific early film career since 1910, noting she has played over two dozen roles including a crook, kitchen servant, farmer’s daughter, Chinese princess, Spanish peasant, Indian girl, actress, dancer, and various wives and mistreated characters.
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Norma Talmadge
Miss Talmadge
Wallace Worsley to Direct From Rags to Riches Film
Wallace Worsley, who has directed Leah Baird productions, will wield the megaphone for From Rags to Riches starring Wesley Barry. Shooting of the picture begins this week.
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Wallace Worsley
Leah Baird Productions
Wesley Barry
Family Duo Lloyd Hughes and Gloria Hope Star in Tess
Lloyd Hughes and his wife Gloria Hope join Mary Pickford in Tess marking their first film together. Gloria recently appeared in Trouble with Jackie Coogan while Lloyd led Ince's The Brotherhood of Hate.
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Lloyd Hughes
Gloria Hope
Mary Pickford
Tess
Gloria
Jackie Coogan
Lloyd
Ince
Brotherhood of Hate
Answers to Questions from Picture-Play Readers
Gloria-Margaret Loomis played Jessie in Turn to the Right and is a Lasky stock company member who sometimes acts in Paramount films as a dancer. G. M. B. Nashua Dave Winter played Stephen in Poverty of Riches. Mollie King’s last pictorial appearance was Her Majesty. Julia Faye is not married. Corrine C Rodolph Valentino’s next Paramount vehicle will be The Young Rajah filmed at Lasky studios in Hollywood. Submit six cents for a Market Booklet listing motion picture companies and story types. Ernest Torrence played Solomon Mahaffy in The Prodigal Judge and was the villain in Tolable David. Harle Foxe played Bruce Carrington. Address Prunella Hall, The Boston Post.
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Gloria
Margaret Loomis
Jessie
Miss Loomis
Lasky Stock Company
Paramount Productions
Nashua
Dave Winter
Stephen
Mollie King
Julia Faye
Wallace Ray
Corrine C
Rodolph Valentino
Paramount
Rajah
Lasky Studios
Hollywood
Calif. M. A. S
Picture-Play Magazine
Seventh Avenue
N. Y
Bill M. O
Ernest Torrence
Solomon Mahaffy
David
Harle Foxe
Bruce Carrington
Prunella Hall
The
Boston Post
Big St Bernard Dog Distributes Post in Randolph
Don the 10 year old St Bernard owned by Randolph postal employee Thomas Good delivers the Post to North street neighbors each morning. He stops at McAuliffe's news store to receive papers and only accepts the Post, protected by his master or mistress from others. Rain or shine he makes the trip daily.
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Don
St. Bernard
Thomas Good
Randolph Postal
McAuliffe
North Street
Randolph
Twelve Balloons Start in Race for Grand Prix
In Paris on May 14 twelve balloons representing France England Belgium and Italy launched from the Tuileries Gardens for the Aero Club of France Grand Prix race. A pilot balloon led by Count De La Vaulx with Rene Fonck and Santos-Dumont as passengers started at 4:30 p.m. The breeze favors a landing in the Pyrenees or possibly Spain with favorites De Muyter Hirschauer and Biename among the leading contenders.
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Paris
France
England
Belgium
Italy
Tuileries Gardens
Aero Club of France
Count de la Vaulx
Rene Fonck
Alberto Santos-Durmont
Pyrenees
Spain
Ke, de Muyter
Gordon Bennett
United States
Hirschauer
Maurice Biename
Students Win Honors for High Scholarship at BU
Twenty two BU College of Business Administration students from senior and junior classes win high scholarship honors and initiation into the Delta Mu Delta chapter. Four coeds receive honors Elizabeth Haggerty Bertha Price Anna Sharood and M Lenore Flint. Remaining honorees include Francis Chamberlain William Clark William Dyer Davis Fiske Samuel Gold Eugene Hartnett Roger Jennings Arthur Johnson Hobart Layden Raymond Mannix Edward McCarthy John Meehan Leslie Pike Solomon Rottenstein Charles Robertson Abraham Shoenberg D. C Grovenia Stewart and Herman Wagner.
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Boston University College of Business Administration
Boston University
Delta Mu Delta
Phi Beta ‘Kappa
Elizabeth Haggerty
Dorchester
Bertha Price
Worcester
Anna Sharood
Durham
N. H
Hobart J. Laidden
Waltham
Raymond I. Mannix
Newburyport
Edward J. McCarthy
Fast Boston
John A. Meehan
Leslie A. Pike
Solomon Rotstein
Charles 8. Robertson
Taunton
Abraham Shoenberg
D. C
The Golden Flaw by Wodehouse Comes to Boston Post
The Boston Sunday Post Magazine previews P. G. Wodehouse novella The Golden Flaw a comedy about a barber and his romantic misadventures. The piece teases light, witty plots and a playful social canvas.
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P. G. Wodehouse
Boston Sunday Post
Lilac Sunday Draws Crowds to Arnold Arboretum
Yesterday at the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain large crowds visited the reservation across the day. The lilacs were exceptionally bloomy with about 220 species observed.
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Arnold Arboretum
Arboretum
Jamaica Plain
Women equal to men in intellect proven by education
The writer recalls the shift from seeing women as inferior to men in intellect to recognizing their equal standing in higher education. Historical letters from Harvard Annex era notes women's superior early attention and endurance, but later evidence from Radcliffe and Harvard shows no mental difference between sexes.
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Harvard
Radcliffe
George Herbert Palmer
Agassiz
Palmer
Briggs
Promsor Black
Boston University
Boston
Cambridge
Cruise liner passenger loses $52 to two con men
A third class traveler aboard the Cunard liner Caronia bound for Europe bet against two strangers at a secluded spot near East Boston. He lost $52 after they used two-headed coins and pledged the odds, swearing the coins were tails. He vows to avoid gambling.
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Cunard
High Seas
England
France
Germany
United States
Lithuania
Boston
New York
City Has Real Blue Sunday in Newport Vermont
Newport Vermont faced a blue Sunday as a local controversy over Sunday business sparked by an old law. The town of about 5000 observed a day with no ice cream, candy, tobacco, newspapers, or gasoline.
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Newport
United States
Dr True’s Elixir Endorsed Across States
Advertisement extols Dr True’s Elixir as a pure herbal laxative and worm expeller. It cites Mrs Velme of North Charleston South Carolina sending for the product from Oxford Maine and claims seven decades of use and reliability with prices 40c 60c and 1.20.
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Peter Velme
North Charleston
S. C
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