Star Theater Weekly Film Notes Showcases Pauline Fréderick
Pauline Fréderick stars in The Peace of Roaring River wearing humble garb as she travels from the eastern city to freer mountains with kind locals. Elsie Ferguson films in Florida for The Witness for the Defense with a dramatic loss to an alligator. In Mizzoura, Major Robert Warwick headlines the Paramount-Artcraft adaptation of Augustus Thomas's play with a thrilling train holdup and romance. Also Helen Holmes in The Fatal Fortune and Fatty Arbuckle in Back Stage.
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Pauline
Fréderick
Roaring River
Elsie Ferguson
Paramount Artcraft
Star Tomorrow
Florida
India
Augustus Thomas
Nat Goodwin
Star Theatre
Robert Warwick
Mr. Thomas
St. Louis
Warwick Asheriff
Jim Radburn
Eileen Percy
Noah Beery
Robert Cain
Monte Blue
Gertrude Short
Hazel Brannon
Hugh Ford
Helen Holmes
Loneliest Britisher on a Pacific Island Speaks to Isolation
Edward Davies lives on Poumotu, a French possession in the mid-Pacific, claiming the title of the loneliest Britisher. Only three other whites share the island, a barren 40 by 20 miles, with penguins as companions and bitter cold surroundings. Nearby Macquarie Island hosts two wireless operators serving Australia, marking the most southern British abode.
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Poumotu Archipelago
mid-Pacific
Edward Davies
New Zealand
Macquarie Islands
Australia
Gladys Brockwell Stars in The Sneak Romance
Friday screening features Gladys Brockwell in a William Fox romance of riches and rags. Rhona's affairs involve an artist, tribal jealously, and a gipsy princess cast out before triumphing with true love amid dramatic detail and photography.
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Gladys Brockwell
Wm. Fox
Rhona
Rhons
Naval duel at Cherbourg ends with Confederate cruiser sunk
On June 19 1864 the U S S Kearsarge engaged the Confederate cruiser Alabama outside Cherbourg France after a year long pursuit. After a two hour battle the Alabama sank without surrendering ending the threat to Allied merchant shipping.
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Alabama
Cherbourg
France
Liverpool
Semmes
Kearsarge
Englishman finds gelatin sheets can mimic iridescent effects
An English inventor has discovered a method to treat sheets of gelatin to display iridescent and mother of pearl like surfaces. The process may have multiple practical applications in decorative and manufacturing fields.
Reading the daily thought on change and study dullness
A concise aphorism notes that turning logs to revive a dull fire mirrors how shifting study topics can rouse a dull brain. The speaker Lonefellow reflects on the value of varied effort to sustain mental engagement.
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Lonefellow
Change of mind on labor rules at Durham Hosiery Mills
Julian S. Carr Jr recounts enforcing strict hours and discharging workers for circus attendance. He observed his mill force defecting to the circus and realized blending common sense with rigid rules improves labor relations. He asks how much trouble comes from military like enforcement.
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Julian S. Carr, Jr
System
Carr
Durham Hosiery Mills
Manifold Uses of the Ox Across Its Many Parts
Henri Fabre notes in Our Humble Helpers that the ox serves in farming and transport, provides abundant milk, and yields diverse byproducts. Flesh nourishes, skins make leather, hair fills saddles, tallow and bone charcoal refine sugar and fertilize soil, bones craft buttons, horns become small wares, blood aids sugar refining, intestines become instrument strings, and gall restores fabric luster.
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Henri Fabre
Curious Clubs From Old World and New World
The article recalls eccentric historical clubs such as England’s Bald Headed Men’s Club revived post war and Paris’s Fat Man’s Club whose heaviest member weighed 386 pounds. It also mentions New York’s Society of the Pointed Beards, exclusive for men with carefully cultivated beards ending in a symmetrical point.
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Paris
New York
Society of the Pointed Beards
Monument Erected at Zwolle for Thomas a Kempis Beloved
A new monument at Zwolle honors Thomas a Kempis with a cross shaped pedestal bearing the Christ monogram and the four evangelists symbols. The hill site was donated by the van Royen family and Queen Wilhelmina contributed among early supporters after plans began in 1916.
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Thomas A Kempis
Zwolle
van Royen
Christ
Wilhelmina
Lead Coating Shows Promise for Iron and Wire
Charles Baskerville showcased a process coating sheet iron with lead as an alternative to tin at the Buffalo American Chemical Society meeting. Iron shingles treated with this coating withstood nearly three years of weather exposure without rust, and the coating flexes without cracking. Chicken wire treated similarly performs as well as galvanizing and costs less to produce.
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Buffalo
American Chemical Society
Charles Baskerville
Marguerite Clark Stars in Widows by Proxy
Marguerite Clark headlines Paranti Artcrafts Widows by Proxy a roadway stage success revival. The plot follows a vivacious bachelor girl who fakes widowhood to secure an inheritance for a friend before the returning real husband arrives. Nigel Barrie leads a capable cast with Walter Edwards directing as Clark stages another California vehicle.
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Marguerite Clark
Paranti-Artcraft
Catherine Chisholm Cushing
Miss Clark
Nigle Barrie
Walter Edwards
California
New York
Humor in a Dictionary by Boswell's Friend
The piece notes how Johnson's dictionary reflected his prejudices and views. It cites definitions like oats for horses in England versus people in Scotland and lexicographer as maker of dictionaries. Grub Street is mocked as a hub for writers of various works.
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Johnson
Boswell
Scotland
Eingland
London
Christian Science Monitor
Fortune Telling by Bones in Kaffir Traditions
In the Transvaal Kaffir doctors use bone charms to foretell the future. White men sometimes consult the oracle by throwing the doalas themselves. Some believe Kaffir doctors cure fevers and ailments in Rhodesia and extract relief from toothache.
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Transvaal
Rhodesia
Spiritual Beauty in World War II Era Portraits
A renowned sculptor notes deeper spirituality in postwar sitters compared with prewar figures. He observes women who have sacrificed for others show calmer, quietly happy faces, with eyes revealing sorrow and hardship softened by a sense of spiritual comfort after loss.
Too Much Help Leaves Student Frustrated
A senator warns against overdoing efforts while a girl seeks help with arithmetic. Her brother corrects all problems, but the child wonders if one or two mistakes would have been acceptable for the teacher to miss.
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Big Brother
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