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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1929
Page
3
High Point's Junior High, in its third year, serves 1,022 students from diverse backgrounds. It organizes three student groups, offers clubs and aeronautics, and emphasizes character, citizenship, and practical learning under Principal Mrs. Ranson.
The Ritz screens Vaudefilm "Big Time" with Lee Tracy as a self styled great actor in a backstage life tale. Mae Clarke co stars as the marrying girl who deserts him for another partner. Both leads come from New York stage roots and vaudeville experience.
The schedule lists BROADHURST shows including Street Girl with Bet ty Compson and an all star cast on Monday to Wednesday and The Virginian on Thursday to Saturday. Rialto presents Hearts In Exile on Monday and Tuesday and The Careless Age with Douglas Fairbanks Jr and Loretta Young midweek, then Oh Yeah on Friday and Saturday.
Orpheum presents a full week of shows with Ross Lew and his Radio Dolls daily. American theater features James Gleagon in Shannons of Broadway, Aileen Pringle in Wall Street, and The Squall. Ritz offers vaude and features Big Time Our Modern Maidens Speed Way across the week with Monday through Saturday screenings.
The student body rose from 661 in 1927 to 1022 in two years and three months. The faculty is unusually well suited to the school’s purpose and duties.
Arctic posts like Herschal Island gain winter air mail access. Edmonton airport expands to 240 acres with 4000 ft runway. Lancashire cotton goods face a proposed global sales company backed by $725000. Le Bourget sets passenger record of 20,402 in Jul-Sep. Dutch telephone links to Dutch East Indies planned. New Mexican air mail rate set at 20 centavos per 20 g. Penang to London mail cut by 12-15 days with August 1929 service. Berlin Constantinople air mail flight conducted. Bell Canada reorganizes Ontario and Quebec as separate operating regions.
Henry Turner a noted sportsman and farmer near Lexington hosted a barbecue for friends to honor Rev. Baxter McLendon of Bennettsville S C who preached at Pilgrim Church in the county last Sunday The event concluded with a fox hunt and Turner's pack of fox hounds provided the entertainment during the chase.
New Bern hosts the Nobles of Sudan Shrine temple on Thursday January 9 for the annual business meeting and ceremonial. Leo Waltus Youngworth of California, illustrious imperial potentate of the AAONM, will attend the ceremonial. The program includes dances patrol drills band concerts and luncheons. Elections of officers are on the business agenda. Over 2,250,000 horses are in Australia though in 1788 there were five stallions three mares and a colt.
Rialto screens Hearts In Exile with Dolores Costello in a Moscow peasant setting and Siberian prison camp backdrop. Also shows The Careless Age with Douglas Fairbanks Jr Carmel Myers Loretta Young in London and Lake Como, and Oh Yeah a Pathe sound comedy shot near Feather River with Armstrong Gleason and Garnett directing. The program runs Friday through Saturday and midweek screenings tease a lively Vitaphone era lineup.
Belmont Farley notes 1929 saw growing demand for objective yardsticks in education. Major surveys funded by the U S Office of Education began or planned, including land grant colleges, and high school studies. States created commissions to study school conditions while an advisory committee explores federal education relations.
Angu s O Swink president of Atlantic Life Insurance predicts growth across the Middle Atlantic in 1930. He cites strong 1929 fundamentals, rising construction, better tobacco and cotton yields, and improving textiles. Virginia farm income may rise 10 to 15 percent amid high fire cured prices and large highway programs.
Mrs. Charles H Prevost 45 widow of a former furniture factory superintendent was found dead in a chair at her Lexington home in Belvedere Park. She had three children, a sister and a brother surviving. Her husband died in a Georgia railroad accident years ago.
Noted comic Daphne Pollard joins a cast that includes Stepin Fetchit and Josephine Dunn in an international comedy program highlighting English French and American talents.
The wandering Israelites devised a method for slaughtering and preparing meat animals for food during their journey.
A survey indicates that fifty percent of roadside stand sales are expected to occur on Sunday, highlighting weekend shoppers as the main revenue driver for these stalls.
Stock prices drifted lower in the curb market amid the year end readjustment of speculative accounts. Shenandoah common stock split liquidation after no dividend declared, while Mid-Continent Crude Oil rumors spurred oil shares selling. A moved Mark Twain birthplace cabin was relocated to Mark Twain State Park in Missouri.
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