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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1914
Page
18
The government printing office reports rising public demand for official documents. Sales, cash receipts, and mailings surged in the past years, with forecasts of continued growth needing larger appropriations and staffing.
Antoinette Dewey discovers a note in her husband Jim's coat that sparks jealousy. She confronts him and learns the letter is actually a shared past memory from their engagement. Jim explains he keeps the note to recall their history. Antoinette asks forgiveness and they reconcile.
A newspaper glimpse shows a parent describing plans to educate a boy for a theater career not as an actor or producer but as a ticket speculator aimed at prosperity and prominence. The exchange hints at financial speculation within the arts world.
A lighthearted exchange centers on a weather expert who signs cheerful forecasts as fair and warmer. The speaker can’t recall the poet’s name but notes the poet’s optimistic tone in daily predictions.
In a British chancery hearing Judge Eve refused to bar Hoxton Public Baths from serving as a cinema theater, ruling that entertainment linked to drama can be wholesome recreation. The case centered on whether the use violated baths and washhouses law and whether it qualifies as healthful recreation. Meanwhile in Kentucky the Elmendorf estate near Lexington will be showcased in a feature film, with 9000 acres, a thousand thoroughbred cows, and a grand mansion forming the backdrop for the production.
Laurence Brooks McCloskey, a six year old student, showed early talent in motion pictures. He starred in The Social Secretary at five and later appeared in The Doctor's Romance and a series of Sdddie melodramas, earning a reputation as a skilled villain and rising leading man.
The battleship Michigan near Brooklyn yards equips a Powers Cameragraph No 6 A with film reels for Guantanamo maneuvers. Crew view West Point Annapolis game footage at New York Polo Grounds. Government workshops at Nicholas Power Co train army and navy on projection operations.
Ornamental glass sign over a Glasgow Sauchiehall street picture theater announced the best film, then added a new notice “Tea Rooms Now Open.” The same signs briefly proclaimed “Ten Rooms Now Open. In the Midst of the Jungle” and on another day “Tea Rooms Now Open. The Struggle.”
In Chicago a Photoplay actor Harry Pollard and Margarita Fisher were escorted out after laughing at Pollard’s film. An usher warned patrons amid the disruption. Separately, the Photoplay Authors' League formed in Los Angeles with charter members including Hettie Gray Baker and Lois Weber. incorporated April 13 to protect authors and push legislation, not to contest prices.
State prisons have installed Powers cameragraph projecting machines with Auburn prison in North Carolina and Clinton prison in Dannemora among the latest. Inmates eagerly await Sunday showings and favor current events films. Separate machines are noted at St James Methodist in New York and St Rose of Lima in Flatbush Brooklyn.
Miss Edith Storey travels from town to town for film work in The Christian and Captain Alvazez. She plans Florida enchantment and moonshiners pictures in North Carolina, then Labrador next August.
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