Seven Keys of Baldpate at Pastime Theatre staged by local talent
Large audience attends a Tuesday evening presentation of George M. Cohan's dramatic farce Seven Keys to Baldpate at the Pastime Theatre. James T. Pierce leads as William Hallowell Magee with strong support from Miss Sullivan Miss Vera Miss Morris and others in well portrayed roles.
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Jimmy Pierce
Miss Sullivan
Mary Norton
Miss Vera
Mrs. Quimby
Miss Morris
Elijah Quimby
Baldpate
Jim Cargan
Albert Pierce
John Bland
Albert Belmore
Peters
Henry F. Serbst, Jr
Lou Max
Wm. H. Sisson
Thomas Hayden
Edward E LeClerc, Jr
Louis Stabila
Dr. Callery
Jiggs Kennedy
Asquewan Falls
Frank Doran
James F. Meiggs
Baldpate Inn
Marion F. Vera
William Hallowell Magee
James T. Pierce
M. Theresa Sullivan
Houdinis Mind Reading Hoax At Kansas City
In a Kansas City Star report a late life Houdini act featured a staged spirit reading assisted by his wife. He called out visitors Bill Doakes and Jim Saunders from Benny Carter and warned them to lay down razors or face consequences, drawing a tense reaction from the gallery.
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Houdini
Bill Doakes
Jim Saunders
Benny Carter
Kansas City Star
Insect Assassin One of Nature's Oddities
A British entomologist notes a remarkable insect assassin from the Homoptera living in the Netherlands. It secretes a tasty fluid ants drink to narcotize prey, then pierces armor to suck lifeblood. Red ants later haul away the drained corpses for cannibal feasts.
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W .T. Ching
Naturial
Jury Maganzine
British Museum
Cultivated Gracefulness in Court Etiquette Education
The article notes European princesses learning social tact as a royal duty. Empress Augusta of Germany, grandmother to a German emperor, learned to make polite rounds in Weimar palace gardens. Under a governess, young princesses greeted each bush or tree with a gracious smile and ingratiating remarks.
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Augusta
Germany
Weimar
Stone guides replace metal signs along English roads
The text notes England replacing metal and wooden road signs with durable stone posts. Stone markers are tall for legible inscriptions at driver eye level and visible at night with headlights. The stone markers are said to enhance the landscape unlike current markers which do not.
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England
Texel
Dilemma Over Scales In Irish Stew
Simple Ilanonigan and Hannigan argue about scales that only weigh up to 200 pounds while near 260, prompting a plan to cut superfluous weight. Hannigan then wonders how to prevent getting on twice in the balance issue.
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Ilanonigan
Hannigan
Flannigan
Kaansas City
Golf Dilemma of a Corpulent Patient
A doctor prescribes golf for a heavy patient as exercise. Weeks later the patient asks for another game. The doctor touts golf, but the patient laments the sighting problem: when he can see the ball he cannot hit it, and when he can hit it he cannot see it.
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