King Lear for the Movies by James J. Montague
A reader explains how a Shakespeare tale could be adapted for film. James Brown outlines a reformulated King Lear style script set in oil towns with a daughter hierarchy, New York mob drama, a prosecuting attorney, and a Wall Street rise ending in wealth and political comeback.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King Lear
James J. Montague
Moving Picture
Open Spaces Production Company
Westville
John Faith
Goneril
New York
United States
Cordelia
Molly
Commercial Tribune Sunday June 28 1925 edition
Cincinnati newspaper page describes publication details and pricing for daily and Sunday editions. Lists distribution points in New York City and Chattanooga standards and notes Associated Press rights. Includes publishing company address and ownership by Harry W. Brown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
THE
Commercial Tribune
Commercial Square
Broadway
Cincinnati
Ohio
Harry W. Brown
Outlawing the Village Liquor Courts Declared Illegal
Judge Stanley Struble holds village liquor courts illegal due to magistrates pecuniary interest in case outcomes. He calls the system sordid and a mockery of justice, condemning judicial bargaining and profit driven enforcement. The ruling echoes calls for fairness and liberty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanley Struble
Struble
Crabbe
State Prohibition Department
Judge Struble
Protest Over Zoning Map Changes Sparks City Debate
Alfred Bettman and the United City Planning Committee challenge approval of zoning amendments aimed at aiding individual lot owners. They urge the ordinance respect the organic city plan, warning arbitrary relief risks harming the whole welfare and public policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United City Planning Committee
Alfred Bettman
Carrel
City Planning Committee
Bettman
Public School Improvement Plan for Cincinnati Faces Costs
The Board of Education offers an ambitious expansion program with an estimated outlay around a million dollars or more. The plan, publicized in The Commercial Tribune, seeks better physical facilities and teaching personnel within Cincinnati's means, judged by accredited authorities and guided by the Superintendent and principals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Education
Tennessee
Citizens’ of
Cincinnati
Commercial Tribune
Tuberculosis Hospital Need Urges Expansion in Cincinnati
Dr. A C Bachmeyer reports to County Commissioners that tubercular patients are being turned away due to bed shortages at the Tuberculosis Hospital. He urges immediate expansion of facilities as tuberculous cases threaten public health and compel patients to stay at home or work while battling the disease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. C. Bachmeyer
General Hospital System
Cincinnati
Philip Gath
Berlin Magnates Predict Dawes Plan Failure
Berlin's leading industrialists push a gloomy forecast that the Dawes plan will fail, arguing the scheme cannot solve Germany's economic ills and pursuing measures to hasten its collapse for their own interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Germany
Dawes
Pioneers Face Hardships on the New Bus Venture
Like all new pioneers the bus must navigate early obstacles and challenges. Merit in pioneering helps overcome these early handicaps and pave the way for progress.
Fifty Years Ago in Cincinnati June 28 1876
The Cincinnati Commercial notes Harry Bates and Julia Harbeson suing the estate of their grandfather John Bates to break a will leaving them 50 000 dollars each claiming their share should be 800 000. Judge Force presides. Prof Peter H Clark heads to Ber a Ky to deliver an address at Haines High School. Gas mains on Colerain Ave near Work House to Millcreek Bridge near completion. C J Acton of Yellow Springs Ohio reportedly attempted suicide after heavy losses. friends worry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry C. Bates
Julia Harbeson
John Bates
Peter H. Clark
Haines High School
Colored
Beréa
Postwar revival in Covington business and civic battles
Tom Mead returns to the city after the Civil War era and buys a fare game in Race street rooms. Three new stores rise on Fifth Street west of Elm, drawing attention. Covington residents chide Coroner Maley over unreturned stakes. Billy Stoms fights to save Eighth Street Park, opposing Councilman Gardiner on abandoning the project, criticizing the $8,000 fence. Weather reports cloudy skies turning rainy with temperatures 71 to 88.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Race Street
Fifth Street
Elm
Billy Stoms
The
Park Commission
Eighth Street
Jake Gardiner
Stoms
Twenty Years Ago in Cincinnati Fraternity and City News
The Chicago- or Cincinnati Gazette item recounts Sigma Chi national meeting crowd scenes with Judge Charles Evans as President and Louis Blakemiddre as Secretary. It notes Governor race contenders John M. Pattison and Hiram Peck, plus Congressman Ben Welty as a dark horse. Also mentions Otto Cornelius joining Free Setters, Miss Lucy Bridge retiring from Madisonville, a downpour raising the Licking River, and local financial issues at Cincinnati Club amid a Water Works Commission delay with Camden Iron Works contract and system goal for January 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sigma Chi
Charles Evans
Louis Blakemiddre
Columbus
Water Works Commission
Camden Iron Works
21 Taken in Gambling Raid
Kansas City police say twenty one people were arrested in an organized campaign against baseball and race track betting. The arrests occurred in cigar stores and soft drink places.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Plane Crash Kills Two in Denver Air Mishap
Denver, June 86. Aviator Casey Tyrrell and an unidentified soldier died when a wing failed and the plane crashed near Denver. The incident occurred late today, with authorities reporting the fatalities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Col
Casey Tyrrell
Here
Modern View of God Debate in The Commer Tribune
Charles A. L. Reed defends a modern, science-based conception of God against orthodox “meat and whiskers” imagery. He discusses questions on God, Jesus Christ, prayer, fundamentalism, and the relation of faith to nature in a June 22 1925 letter from East Gloucester Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commer Tribune
Commercial Tribune
C. A. L. Reed
Reed
William Goudberg
Mission Society
The
Christian Reformed Church
Times
God
Jesus Christ
Renee
House of Bishops
Episcopal Church
Dallas
Book of Common Prayer
Presbyterian General Assembly
Princeton
Mr. Bryan
Inquisition
Charles A. L. Reed
Hawthorne Inn
East Gloucester
Mass
Young prisoner accused of raising and passing counterfeit dollar
Graham True, 20, of Amelia Ohio, jailed in Covington, is charged with altering a one dollar bill by adding fives and passing it to a grocery boy in the jail. Bond set at 2000 dollars. hearing scheduled for July 28. True previously served time for automobile theft and was to be released before new charges emerged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Covington
O. H. Roetken
United States
Graham True
Amelia
M. P. Bolan
Reg of Justice
Roetken
True
Atlanta
Shelley D. Rouge
Butler Granted Membership in French Academy
Paris June 27 Dr Nicholas Murray Butler president of Columbia University was received into membership of the French Academy of Moral and Political Science The seat became vacant by Viscount Bryce 1922 death Butler is the third American member joining Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson He addressed the academy in French praising Franco American shared devotion to liberty and opportunity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Paris
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University of New York
French Academy of Moral and Political Science
Viscount Bryce
United States
Butler
Academy
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
France
Fall kills one and injures two in Cleveland scaffold collapse
David Vallance, 60, was killed and two men were hurt when a scaffold at the top of a four story elevator shaft collapsed, dumping them 75 feet to the concrete below. The accident occurred in Cleveland on June 27.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Cleveland
David Vallance
Foreign loan aid to trade seen at convention
A National Foreign Trade Council report urged investment bankers to arrange foreign loans to stimulate U S production and export earnings. It stressed a privately owned merchant marine under American flag and criticized government ships as uncompetitive, calling for private operation and shared risk. It notes tax burdens on business and praise for navy radio use in news dispatches across the Pacific.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
National Foreign Trade Council
E. P. Thomas
United States Steel Products Company
United States
United States Shipping Board
Ac Ae
Pacific
Gas Explosion Hurts St Bernard Man at Home
Henry Bauer a 29 year old machinist of 51386 Main avenue St Bernard was burned on face chest and arms and hurled through a second story window when a gas explosion followed a cut electric wire while he worked on a chandelier. He was treated at General Hospital in serious condition. damage to the Sears home was slight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Bauer
Main Avenue
St. Bernard
Bauer
Bau
General Hospital
Sears
Also Mentioned on This Page
Asylum
Wall Street
Riviera
Florida
White Mountains
Canada
Chan
James Brown
the Bell Syndicate, Inc
Press Publishing Company
New_York Evening World
the Commercial Tribune
New York City
Schultz
Sixth Avenue
Forty-second Street
Grand Central Station
Hotaling
Forty-third and
Cincinnati Commercial
Colerain Avenue
Millcreek Bridge
Yellow Springs
C. J. Acton
Tom Mead
Maley
Otto Cornelius
Kings Mills
Otto
Ed Walker
Teachers’ Pension Fund
Lucy Bridge
Madisonville
Kentucky
Licking River
Palmouth
Newport
Holzman
Cincinnati Club
Roas Holzman
French Academy
Council
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!