Big Four independents promise bigger and better films
United Artists wires that Douglas Fairbanks and partners will release When the Clouds Roll By at the Broadway theatre Monday and Tuesday. The Big Four's move to independent production is hailed as a milestone with critics praising the film as among their most spectacular. The Orpheum presents the Teddy Bear Girly troupe with Margie Wright and others offering a fresh program today and tomorrow, including two matinees Saturday at 2:30 and 4, and shows at 7:30 and 9.
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Big Four
Margie Wright
William Leicht
Des Lee
King and King
Teddy Bear Girly
Orpheum Theater
Orpheum
Mary Pickford Starring in Heart O the Hills at Broadway
Mary Pickford stars in Heart O the Hills adapted from John Fox Jr. at the Broadway theatre. The mountain girl heroine accepts her fate and vows to bait her own hook with worms, reflecting themes of independence and romance.
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Mary Pickford
Italian Maiden May Marriage Day Beliefs
The text states that no Italian maiden will marry in May and details a set of weekday prohibitions. Mondays are unlucky for future generations, Saturdays are for widows, Tuesdays are linked to witches, and Fridays and Wednesdays are fast days. Sundays are typically chosen for celebrations.
Griffiths Broken Blossoms at Rose Theatre Next Week
D W Griffiths new photoplay drama Broken Blossoms will play at the Rose Theatre next Tuesday and Wednesday. The film, based on The Chink and the Child from Limehouse Nights, uses few characters yet aims to move audiences with simple artistic means beyond grand crowd scenes.
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David Wark Griffith
Rose Theatre
Griffith
Thomas Burke
Informal Will Disposes of Two Million Estate
Denver January 30 An estate valued at two million dollars was divided under a handwritten note found among Ora Haley s effects. The informal document dated December 6 1905 names his wife Gussie Haley and his three children Ora Benjamin Haley Annie Gussie George and Mattie Blanch Smith as beneficiaries with one half to the wife and the other half split among the children. The note states intentions to later make a formal will.
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Denver
Colorado
Ora Haley
Wyoming
Gussie Haley
Ora Benjamin Halevy
Annie Gussie George
Mattie Blanch Smith
Salt Lake City Seeks Nick Cullop Return as Pitcher
Pacific Coast League manager Ernie Johnson of Salt Lake City aims to lure famed pitcher Nick Cullop, a star in the Federal League, back into action for Salt Lake by convincing him to return to the mound.
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Ernie Johnson
Salt Lake City
Nick Cullop
Salt Lake
Banquet at First Presbyterian Church a Notable Success
The men of the congregation gathered last evening at the First Presbyterian Church in High Point for a banquet hosted by the men's Bible class and church officers. G W Denny urged Sunday school enrollment, Dr C A Myers from Greensboro lent an address, Rev Coble praised the event, and Mrs R L Waynick read after which a quartette performed. The ladies auxiliary served dinner of oysters, potato salad, pie and coffee.
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First Presbyterian Church
Carter Dalton
Dalton
G. W. Denny
Charles P. Coble
Coble
Cobl
R. L. Waynick
High Point
Dr. Myers
Christ
Aaron Burr
God
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Church
Iron bolt removed from child’s throat in Nebraska
In Sioux City Iowa January 30 Park family of Wakefield Nebraska reported three year old Win some Park was rushed to hospital with a bolt lodged in his esophagus after attempting to swallow an iron bolt measuring one and a half inches long and a half inch in diameter. An X ray and operation freed the bolt and the child recovered.
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Sioux City
Ita
Winsome
New Decalogue Is Proposed For Gothamites
New York preacher Rev. John R. Straton proposes an Altar of Mammon at Broad and Wall streets with ten modern commandments for New Yorkers. He lampoons greed and material gain, reframing biblical laws to condemn banking profits, rebates, and ruthless competition in a critical city critique.
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John R. Straton
Calvary Baptist Church
Moonshine crackdown draws West Virginia officials into deadly raids
Prohibition chief Hallanan and deputies raid southern West Virginia moonshine hubs along Panther Creek near the Virginia line. The crackdown targets famed moonshine families from Virginia and local fast producers who relocate as officers close in. Two men, Preston Mullens and deputy John D. Kennedy, have died in the confrontations as fights persist. Tommy O Malley, once a boxing champion, is now a University of Pennsylvania student and varsity member.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
W. S. Hallanan
Preston Mullens
John D. Kennedy
Panther Creek
McDowell County
Virginia
Hallanan
Tommy O'Malley
University of Pennsylvania
England Faces Daily Deficit Of 829000
LONDON January 30 Great Britain hopes to escape red ink soon but until April 1 faces a daily deficit of 892000 dollars. The outlook marks improvement from 1919 when expenditure exceeded income by 6 252000 daily. Figures assume the pound at 4 so debt remains about a million dollars daily worse than income.
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Great Britain
National Ledger
England
Curgo
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