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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1927
Page
2
Richard Dix stars as Steve Porter a rich bachelor in Paradise for Two at the Broadhurst theater. The comedy drama centers on Dix inheritance troubles as uncle Howard played by Edmund Breese threatens to cut in on his plans and stir laughs.
Alfred E. Green planned authentic bustle for The Auctioneer by filming crowds at a busy New York corner unseen. His cameraman was stationed at a subway entrance under a sidewalk tent to capture genuine reactions without self conscious actors.
Jack Holts Betista makes her film debut in the Paramount Zane Grey picture Man of the Forest coming to the Broadhurst theater. Holt stars in the title role with Georgia Hale and Eli Brendel co featured. Betista, a Thoroughbred and Arabian bred horse owned by Holt, replaces his former favorite Chief.
The article praises the film's horsemanship with Betista the buckskin cow pony and Holt's humane training. It notes a light buff color against a dark tree background and describes tricks like sliding stops and taut lariats. The production uses daring riders and top horses from the far west.
Three members of Buster Keaton’s team create a daily meetings club titled The Three-Must Get-Gag-Men. The trio enforces daily gag contributions for the Battling Butler production with fines covering overhead costs. Boasberg and Paul Gerard Smith are noted Broadway sketch writers. Charles Smith previously worked in vaudeville.
Harold Lloyd stars in For Heaven's Sake at Broadway next Thursday in a comedy urged as a path to saving and security. The ad promotes saving part of earnings in a bank to avoid poverty and highlights Lloyd aiding the underprivileged.
Tommy Burns presents the Bright Lights Revue at the Orpheum for a full week starting tomorrow. The bill features the Famous Jung Brothers in a comedy acrobatic act plus six other specialty acts. An hour of clean, clever entertainment awaits in this high class program.
The Orpheum announces a full program change featuring new pictures and vaudeville acts. Shows run Monday Wednesday Friday and Saturday with a revised lineup each day.
Joseph Schildgraut stars in Meet the Prince a romantic comedy on the Broadway screen tomorrow only at the Broadway theater Marguerite De La Motte co stars with a cast including Julia Faye David Butler Helen Dunbar and Vera Steadman borrowed from Christie comedies for an important role the usual pay night Monday at 7 o'clock.
The piece portrays Mrs. Johnson as effectively managing a state department, handling complaints and petitions from many citizens especially women. It argues politics would suffer if the department were merged or moved and notes opposition from some women who claim to know how to run it.
Raleigh Feb 11. A house resolution asks if state commissions and departments may be consolidated. Proposals consider uniting public welfare and child welfare with the state board of health for coordination and savings, but Health Officer Dr. Laughinghouse and Welfare Commissioner Mrs. Kate Burr Johnson oppose such a merger citing distinct functions and loss of welfare focus.
New York reports cotton goods orders up 43 percent since year start and primary stocks 10 percent lower while January sales run 70 percent ahead of production. Finished goods markets improve seasonally with strong demand for dress fabrics, ginghams, voiles, rayons, and fall fabrics. export demand rises in South America, the Philippines and Africa. Prices for basic cloths and yarns are listed with mixed movement across mills.
The Enterprise Bureau reports 16 North Carolina newspapers endorse Sutton state-wide game bill. Editors urge passage as House committee shows unanimous support and anticipate no major floor opposition. Endorsers include High Point Enterprise Wilmington Star Twin-City Sentinel Wilmington News-Dispatch Kinston Free Press Winston-Salem Journal Salisbury Evening Post Lexington Dispatch Asheville Citizen Catawba News Enterprise Raleigh Times Goldsboro News Greensboro Daily News Asheville Times Charlotte Observer Rocky Mount Telegram.
Rev Oscar Haywood a Montgomery county legislator and former Calvary Baptist aide faces a Wake county grand jury summons to testify about alleged law breaking near a Raleigh dance hall during a state house debate He had urged bills to curb immorality and crime and threatened a gubernatorial run if lawmakers mocked his platform
In Wilson County, Sam D. Moody was acquitted of the murder of his wife Irma May Moody. The defense argued Moody was not mentally sound at the time of the homicide, and the jury returned a not guilty verdict after receiving the case at 4:53 p.m.
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