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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1920
Page
3
The Eyes of the World to High Point Theatre offers lavish pictorial drama. Harold Bell Wright and W H Chine bring a romance melodrama filmed in southeastern California. A masked man and a bold heroine create a tense sequence amid action and charm.
The Orpheum theater reopens after a week’s break with Bert Bence and his Hello Girls vaudeville troupe for a weeklong engagement in High Point. A matinee drew a good crowd, with plans to continue amusements and more acts booked for the season. Also features Miss Vola Vale in Six Foot Four at the Rose today and tomorrow. Mrs. Mary Ragan of Lawrence, aged 103, smokes a pipe daily and recalls meeting Daniel O’Connell. In London, Magistrate Chapman fines a haberdasher $250 for selling white spats at $3.75, ruling spats not luxuries.
Mrs. EF Cason of Bartow route 5 Georgia says after starting El Vigor she rose from bed and now does most housework. She suffered indigestion rheumatism and other troubles for months and credits the remedy for relief. El Vigor is sold by Ring Drug Co High Point and other druggists.
Gloria Swanson and Cecil B De Mille introduce a half veil half bandeau headpiece named Ace Veil in the upcoming Male and Female. The daring accessory arose from a wartime yarn helmet idea turned gold lace creation.
Washington January 19 The air service of the United States army has issued uniform flying rules intended to standardize procedures across fields. The rules cover hangars machines ground and air and include precautions on clothing safety devices and conduct during takeoff and flight.
New York dancing masters promote a nationwide reform urged by the American Association of Masters of Dancing to ban body grips such as the half Nelson and the Shimmy, curb cheap music, and elevate ballroom etiquette. The circular urges hall managers to eject nonconforming couples, issue leave cards, and report offenders to uphold refined dancing standards with prescribed tempos and steps.
Engineers studying the Santa Monica pier reconstruction in California recommend replacing deteriorated concrete piles with creosoted wood piles and timber caps to extend life while retaining the deck. The pier, condemned as dangerous, rests on piles and hinges on substructure integrity for public safety.
Mrs. Mary Waterhouse of Pleasanton California narrowly escapes injury when a bullet from Henry Moore rips through a window, strikes a cooling pie in a window sill tin, and glances away. Moore says he fired while blasting stumps from nearby property, aiming from a distance with rifle shots, but on the third blast the bullet shattered the glass and hit the pie.
Ke Yamaguchi of Tokio, famed premier tourist hotel magnate, reserved a Palace Hotel suite. He once worked as a window washer there for fourteen months and arrived in the U S twenty five years ago to expand a Japanese hotel chain. He reportedly aims to negotiate a working agreement with San Francisco hoteliers and eastern hotels.
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