The Desert Song in Virginia Morris Film Adaptation
Warner Bros. Picturization of The Desert Song adapts Otto Harbach Laurence Schwab Cecil Hammerstein II and Frank Mandel story for the screen in 1929. The project highlights a musical drama rooted in early Hollywood musical theater.
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Otto Harbach
Laurence Schwab
Cecil Hammerstein
Frank Mandel
Red Shadow’s desert feud ends with Pierre Birabeau
In Fez Margot rejects Ali Ben Ali’s alliance and the Red Shadow faces doom but is slain by Pierre Birabeau. The act earns Pierre hero status. Margot finally reveals love for the Red Shadow, then reunites with him as she discovers his true identity.
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Pierre Birabeau
Pierre
Ali Ben Ali
Birabeau
Desert Palace
Azuri
Riffs
Desert
Morocco
Fez
Bennie
Susan
Allah
Mecca
Tangiers
Paul Fontaine
Fontaine
Captain Fontaine
Margot Bonvalet
Lydia Pinkham’s Medicines Helped Me Wonderfully
Mrs. Ws. H. BeecaTerer of Port Colborne Ontario writes after an operation that Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound made her feel wonderfully better. She says the medicines have helped her wonderfully and restored strength.
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Ont
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Man to Move After Fifty Nine Years in Family Home
Fred R. Allen of Farmington Maine will move for the first time after living in a house his father rented before he was born. The house will be torn down forcing the move. the Mediterranean tides are typically only a few inches at most locations.
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Meissen Porcelain Town Marks 500th Anniversary
Meissen in Saxony, a leading porcelain center since the early 16th century, celebrates 500 years with porcelain bells to hang in the belfry and a porcelain lined war memorial chapel. The interior features china clay sculptures and commemorative figures. the craftsman Bottcher first created Dresden China.
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Happy Mother Thanks Baby's Own Tablets for Health
Mrs. George Kech of Lindberg Alta credits Baby's Own Tablets with keeping her seventeen month old daughter healthy and sleeping well. The tablets are described as a mild laxative that regulate bowels and ease teething and indigestion. Sold by medicine dealers or by mail for 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co. Brockville Ont.
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Lindberg
Alta
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Brockville
Ont
Advertising spend in 1927 shows newspapers lead reach
A National Bureau survey reports one billion five hundred million dollars spent on advertising in the United States in 1927. Newspapers account for 90 million, magazines 210 million, direct advertising 400 million, streetcar cards 20 million, outdoor and premium advertising 75 million, program and directories 25 million, radios rising. Professor Melvin T. Copeland notes ads stabilize ceram industries and boost eventual buying. Edmonton Journal.
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United States
National Bureau of Economic Research
Washington
Melvin T. Copeland
Harvard University
Edmonton Journal
Honey Production in Canada 1928 Rises in West
Canada produced 22,489,909 pounds of honey in 1928 valued at 2,785,467 dollars, down from 1927's 23,196,493 pounds and 2,936,558 dollars. In 1926 production was 13,769,649 pounds worth 1,920,948 dollars. Recent years show western provinces increasing honey output.
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Voice Returns After Wife’s Illness
A friend explains his wife recovered fully from a severe cold that had robbed her voice for about a week.
Saskatchewan at Polish Universal Exhibition displays
The Canadian exhibit for the Polish Universal Exhibition in Poznan from May to September highlights Polish Canadian life in city and country. Dominion Government, provinces, railways, and Hudson's Bay Co contribute models, buffaloes, and displays of agriculture, minerals, industry. Saskatchewan provides colored transparencies, Parliament and university buildings, sixty large photos of farming and live stock, with bilingual English French Polish descriptions.
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Holland
Russia
Turkey
Japan
China
United States
Brazil
Argentina
Chile
France
Italy
Germany
Belgium
Czecho- Slovakia
War memorial in Wellington to feature four carillons
The city of Wellington, New Zealand, is building a war memorial that will include a four carillon feature. The project honors veterans and reflects on faith and endurance as expressed in cited quotes about strength and perseverance.
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Wellington
N.Z
Danish child prodigy puzzles Copenhagen visitors
A six year old Danish boy, Paul Larsen of Hvidovre, wowed visitors in Copenhagen with rapid mental arithmetic. His father, a modest tailor, says Paul has shown arithmetic skill since age four, solving products up to 10 000 in under ten seconds, with little formal training. He spends his days playing in his village.
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Paul Larsen
Hvidovre
Copenhagen
Paul
Minard’s for the Rub Down
The Ohio State Journal notes a cynical take on life as people delay nice acts until the children are grown, only to discover they no longer care about doing them. The piece laments postponed plans and changing priorities in everyday life.
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Ohio State Journal
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