Dramatic Damsel and Freshman Banter Spotlight
A dramatic remark as a damsel quips about a male friend playing a dumbbell role. A green freshman answers with humor about needing a dumbbell and mentions only a ukulele.
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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1925
Page
10
A dramatic remark as a damsel quips about a male friend playing a dumbbell role. A green freshman answers with humor about needing a dumbbell and mentions only a ukulele.
The annual Promotion Day program for First Baptist Church Sunday School lists events for September 27 1925. It includes a processional for Juniors and Intermediates a prayer a piano solo by Alwana Wood scripture reading memory work junior graduates a Marguerite Carter solo a pageant by intermediate pupils presentation of diplomas welcomes to the intermediate department Mildred Stephens welcomes to the Young People's Department Ruby Lee Edens and a benediction.
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer drama by Hobart Henley explores a newlywed couple with human interest and witty angles on success. Eleanor Boardman stars as the wife, Conrad Nagel as the husband, with Lew Cody and a supporting cast including Clyde Cook Warner Oland Mabel Julienne Scott Edward Connelly John Boles and Du Pont.
A compilation of William Jennings Bryan’s reflections on life after death and the eternal soul. The prose compares noble living to divine radiance and recalls Bryan’s observations on light, faith, and the resurrection, including a Cairo grain of wheat illustrating continuity beyond death.
Greta Nissen appears in Lost a Wife on the Paramount West Coast lot. The film recreates a French village with smoke chimneys grazing goats and a hedge clipped by a Frenchman. Adolphe Menjou and Robert Agnew co star with Edgar Norton in a continental romance and comedy, arriving at the National next Wednesday and Thursday September 30 and October 1, with Mario Carilla Toby Claude and Marcelle Corday in support.
A wife complains that a woman's work is never done while placing biscuits on the table. Her husband agrees with a weary nod and pushes the plate away, echoing the sentiment with a curt reply.
A humorous quotation features Blonde Bess claiming the boss called her a thing to adore and debating whether the remark meant knocker or belle, reflecting playful backstage banter. The line showcases vaudeville style humor and character image.
Detroit Street Railways approves a purchase of 64 Graham Brothers twenty one passenger motor coaches, bringing total buys to 148 in a year. The 84 in service have logged 2,000,000 miles and perform well. Routes will rise to 95 miles with new coaches, boosting total system mileage by about 25 percent and linking stations and hotels for visitors.
A. F. Davis and family moved to Megargel this week after he accepted transfer to Phillips Petroleum’s Swastika plant. Little Ruby Hall is very ill with typhoid fever. Mr and Mrs Sam Goldwater visited his niece Mrs W E Sparks in Dublin Sunday. County Superintendent H H Avants spoke to students and patrons on school opening day, noting positive progress.
Venus showcases a full wardrobe with Miss Sweet wearing about twenty four gowns. The costumes, bought in London and Paris, reflect European fashion as part of Marshall Neilan’s Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production coming to Liberty Theatre Thursday and Friday. Miss Sweet chose not to bring costumes from home, instead purchasing an almost complete wardrobe abroad and wearing much of it in the film.
The Ceiba, or silk cotton tree, yields kakok silky wool from its fruit used in upholstery. Seeds serve as livestock feed and oil for food products and soap. The fruit is edible with a medicinal gum from sprouts. Even before Spaniards, natives used its legs for canoes.
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