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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1916
Page
7
Miss Bertie Herron brings unusual stage appeal to Keiths Theater next week. The piece notes a grease paint shortage tied to Germany, with prices rising and supply dwindling, forcing potential alternatives for her makeup.
A personal note expresses longing for peace amid conflict so the writer can secure affordable black grease paint and avoid disruption to daily life and appearance.
Manager I M Martin unveils a strong Chester Park bill next week headlined by the Four Portia Sisters with four other acts including Fargo and Wells George Harden the Moth Brothers and Girlie and aerialists Paul and Paulina. Band concerts new cabaret lineup eatery features attract crowds at the dance hall and bath attractions. Indications point to a very successful Chester season.
Coney’s popular dansant on the island clubhouse second floor attracts crowds as the park opens. Plans for another free dance by Major Walter Esberger join a skeeball bonanza drawing locals and visitors. East Night High School holds its annual outing with Principal Albert Schwarts staging athletic events on the arena and diamonds.
The three day engagement begins this morning featuring H. B. Warner in The Market of Vain Desire a Hi Ince Triangle production. The film promotes the view that a loveless marriage contracted for gain is as immoral as crime. A Triangle comedy completes the program. Next week Norma Talmadge appears in Going Straight and Billie Burke with Kenry Kolker star in the fourth installment of Gloria's Romance.
The Grand presents William Foxs The Sins of Men as the feature for the last three days of the week with Doroth y Bernard and Stuart Holmes in principal roles. Anna Nilsson and Tom Moore also shine in Who's Guilty part of the double bill alongside The Sins of Men. Early next week Carlisle Blackwell and Hazel Clayton star in The Other Man's Wife with a Keystone comedy.
The Breen Family returns with diverse acts including Teddy Beardance with Miss Nellie Breene and Breeno-Juggling. George Wilson tops the cast along with Hickman Brothers in The Rehearsal. Bertie Herron Milt Arnsman Leonardi provide musical variety and Pathe Weekly newsreel plus Matt and Jeff cartoon.
A three day engagement of Notorious Gallagher begins this morning at the Walnut. Marguerite Snow and William Nigh star in the principal roles amid a new idea and development described as a Metro wonder play.
The article notes an appealing love story driving the fiction and mentions Virginia Pearson in Hypocrisy a William Fox production and a Metro-Drew comedy. The Paramount Pictograph is shown and the package runs the first half of next week.
Peggy Hyland, English stage favorite, makes her American photoplay debut in Saints and Sinners a Daniel Frohman production on the Paramount program at the Strand Theater for a three day run. A Bray animated cartoons reel accompanies the show. Blanche Sweet stars in The Thousand Dollar Husband the first four days of next week.
Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne headline the Metro masterplay A Man and His Soul opening for a three day run at the Lyric Theater. The drama follows a young man who feels spurned by love and seeks to punish those in his path with a Keystone comedy also on the bill.
The Lagoon opened for the season and reports brisk business on its large dance floor. Menzel's Orchestra provides music for dancers. The Motordrome hosts its first rebuilt baseball game Saturday at 3 30.
Telegram from Baltimore reports a packed house as President Wilson and party join the Friars in a patriotic show. George Leffler notes the president visited backstage during intermission and spoke to the group. 125 Friars waved flags and sang The Star Spangled Banner with the audience joining. Thousands were turned away.
The new conductor Oscar Spirescu leads a Zoo program praised for varied and entertaining selections. A horn and flute duet by Albrect and Kouloukis anchors the evening with future Saturday pieces planned including The Blue Danube and the Rienzi overture. The clubhouse run by Tom Goodwin continues to attract crowds with good food and drink.
Four year old John Rampe of Rosedale Kentucky jumped into the Ohio River at Vine street in the morning. He was rescued by Jacob Schenk of Elm Street. Rampe later jumped again and was taken to General Hospital where he said he was tired of life.
Sioux City Western League signs Jack Pfeister formerly with the Chicago Nationals and Wilbur Schardt formerly with the Brooklyn Nationals who last year pitched for the Indianapolis Club of the American Association.
A reader recalls a roadside moment when a stranger lent his engine tire pump to refill a flat tire. The anecdote centers on gratitude and human goodwill sparked by a small act of assistance on a trip.
Fred C. Wood, manager of the Wood- Oakland Company, left with Mrs. Wood for a week of business and pleasure. They plan Cleveland and Detroit trips, then Pontiac to pick up a new Oakland eight. They will visit Howe Indiana for their son's military school graduation and Grand Haven Michigan for a finishing course, then Cincinnati for a family reunion at the Colonel Peabody homestead in Madisonville. Lou Manley will run the Wood- Oakland firm and may sell 100 cars.
Joseph O. Hahn of Studebaker praises Blevins Auto Sales progress in Cincinnati as they retail about 150 Studebaker cars since January with an estimated 350 cars sold in the first year. Balloon race publicity by Overland features 300 balloons on Government Square with $30 prizes and a repeat event planned.
The Gold tract owned by George Gold, to be developed by Builder Hayward, spans about twenty one lots north of Madison and south of the Home of the Incurables. Paul avenue will form a circle to accommodate ten to twelve homes. Two Fuller street properties sold at auction by Weber to John Junius, Sr. for 1900 and 2800. Auction conducted for William Stredelman as executor of Henry Sommers estate. Tiech Levi Tischbein attend as attorneys. Isaac White leased storerooms at 2806 and 288 Woodburn avenue to Mrs. Lutmer for five years at 900 per year.
Real estate transfers and mortgage filings in Cincinnati describe numerous property deeds, leases, and lot descriptions across Millcreek, College Hill, and Walnut Hills. Multiple parties including Luella Leininger, John J. Donovan, Sophia Fisher, and Edward G. Ed wards appear with parcels, rents, and easements affecting hundreds of feet of streets and blocks.
Edna Judge Morris, only woman graduate of Cincinnati College of Dentistry, passes West Virginia State Board exam with brother Robert T. Judge among two juniors in class of sixty three. They plan to practice together in Cincinnati after Ohio Board in late June. Commencement tonight at the Business Men's Club with Dr. G. S. Junkerman presiding.
Wilmot J. Hall Louis E. Levas sor Philemon B. Stanberry Charles B. Lawton Job Inskeep and others organize a glass brick manufacturing company with a sixteen acre plant near Huntington West Virginia along the Ohio River. Offices are in the First National Bank Building. Capital stock is 600000 dollars.
Frank Maltaner a bacteriologist with the Board of Health receives a month off to study his field at an Eastern college. He plans to depart in the latter part of June.
Philip H. Herget of the Wood row-Bradley Company a stationers and printing firm at 323 Walnut Street files his application for Chamber of Commerce membership.
J. B. Brodbarger Jr. hosted W. M. Morris of St. Louis as a guest on Change Wednesday. William G. Stuewe introduced E. H. Reynolds of Indianapolis and C. B. Custer chaperoned F. E. Watkins of Cleveland, Ohio.
W. L. Brown of Silverton exhibited twenty seven varieties of grasses including timothy clover alfalfa and wild species at the Hay and Grain change. The display drew brokers' curiosity and comment. J. Reeve manager Browning King and Co. returns today from a visit in Columbus Ohio.
Guests registered at the Business Men's Club yesterday included R. J. Sims of Pittsburg Pennsylvania and W. K. Beachley and M. Mason from St. Louis Missouri.
G W Williams vice president of the Fourth National Bank was at his desk yesterday after a several week vacation across North Carolina Tennessee and Southern Illinois where he spent his boyhood days.
John H. Hall president of the Ohio Building Managers' Association and manager of the Emery Building and Captain William McIntyre manager of the Union Central Life Insurance Building returned home yesterday from a meeting of the Executive Committee of the State Association at Columbus.
A. H. Richards of Field Richards & Co. departed last evening for a business visit to New York City, continuing the firm’s schedule and meetings pending engagements.
A. A. Liggett secretary of the Raleigh Coal and Coke Company departed last evening for a brief business visit starting in Columbus. Allen & Morrison, a longtime Cincinnati grain firm, closed its 35 year run as John De Molet Jr takes over to form the De Molet Grain Company.
The East and West Night High Schools award diplomas to 447 graduates at Music Hall. Principal Albert Schwartz notes the effort of students balancing work and study, while Dr J M Withrow presides and W H Aiken directs music from both schools.
More than six hundred students will receive diplomas at commencement exercises in Music Hall tomorrow night. Superintendent Condon will present the diplomas and orators from the four high schools will speak. Stewart S. Cooper represents Walnut.
Helen Burke a 16 year old of 20 West Thirteenth street accidentally shot her left ankle with a discarded revolver Tuesday night. She is not seriously injured and expected to leave General Hospital in a few days.
Departures yesterday include the Courier to Vanceburg the Chile to Chile and the City of Louisville to Louisville Ky Dor othy Barrett tows empties for Marmet Coal Company toward Kanawha River Captain Homer Varian and pilot H C Pownell aboard Barrett The George Matheson No 2 and J T Hatfield towboats of E J Hickey Transportation arrive with coal under Captain George Williamson and Captain C A Gebhart respectively Charles A Cole returns from river piloting the Charles Brown with empties Pittsburg Coal Companys Cruiser arrives with coal under Captain H W Fairfield Campbell Creek Coal Companys Robert P Gillham changes tows at Huntington W Va with D T Lane and will return to Cincinnati Howard shipyards at Jeffersonville Ind report thirteen steamboats under construction for lower Mississippi River Pittsburg Coal Company lists three pool towboats including Active The Devorsburg Dock Company contracted for a new towboat by Diamond Coal Company Marretti Manufacturing to install compound machinery on her Louisvilles river stage at 6 p m yesterday shows canal depth 6.6 feet and 17.1 feet below locks clear and warm. Arrival and departure noted City of Louisville in route to Cincinnati Pittsburgh river at Davis Island Dam 8 feet and stationary Wheeling river 4 feet rising, clear.
Five year old Louis Sherer son of Ben Sherer painter of 1521 Providence street was badly burned when his clothing caught fire from a gas stove. He stood on tiptoes to reach breakfast, tipped a coffee pot, and flames engulfed his sleeve at General Hospital his condition listed as serious. His sister Martha aged seven narrowly escaped injuries while attempting to help.
Fragmentary maritime entry records ships and ports including Yokohama and York. Mentions Nippon Maru and Meies WURCIBCD Lyssoho plus Hongkong banners and Christians. Details are garbled with numerous misspellings and unreadable segments.
A terse entry notes men from Cincinnati with a reference to Mars in a short listing. No further context or details are provided in readable text.
In Cincinnati a mass demonstration announced to defend the country is expected to attract over 100000 men. An eight member executive committee led by George McG Morris will organize the event with broad civic participation. Organizations including the Advertisers Club Chamber of Commerce and Rotary join to arrange bands uniforms and banners for the largest city parade to date.
Mrs Made line Black widow of Elmer Ellsworth Black was arrested at the Hotel Manhattan on larceny charges. Banker John Farson testified he cashed a $500 check dated January 25. The case cites her notice of an undesirable Guaranty Trust balance and her later bail release.
Deputy sheriffs dispersed a band of gypsies on Wooster pike near the N and W bridge after local complaints. Mayor Puchta received a letter from Mrs. J S Richardson of Sharonville urging inspection of a building she calls a death trap in that village. the notice was referred to the Building Commissioner and district State Inspector. Sharonville lies outside Cincinnati city limits.
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