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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1917
Page
2
Fox actor James Marcus weighs his 300 pound physique against the claim of direct descent from Marcus Aurelius. He notes he rarely asserts the lineage, faulting the emperor for moralizing while Marcus prefers action over words.
The photoplay tells of a cabaret singer who dies the man who wronged her leaving a nameless daughter. Her inheritance lets her settle in a village and win villagers approval and an engagement to the minister’s son. Fate reveals the child’s link to her real father.
Mary Charleson stars as Edith Conway in Satan's Private Door at the Rose theater next Friday. Critics hail her as a powerful emotional actor, delivering a tense drama with tempered intensity and a convincing portrayal of a steadfast girl whose belief in truth prevails.
The Right to Be Happy, a film version of A Christmas Carol, screens at the Rose Theatre on Thursday. The piece showcases Ebenezer Scrooge’s transformation and promotes charity and kindness, with Bluebird Photoplays producing a vivid screen adaptation.
St Valentine theme frames the Paramount program at the Broadway today. Marguerite Clark stars in The Valentine Girl hailed as the sweet girl in motion pictures. The piece notes the long tradition of valentines from Saint Valentine to modern love tokens and the continued practice among youth.
The drama presents a moral lesson on steering girls away from danger and guiding them back to virtue. Filmed as a Selig Red Seal Play from Virginia Brooks' work, it weaves a strong love story through thrilling climaxes and heart touching episodes urging mothers to have their daughters see it.
In Juarez on June 7 government forces under General Cordova Espienza defeated Villa’s men at Pueblito six miles south of Ojinaga after three hours of fighting. General Padilla reported Villa commander surrendered at Escalon with 80 men. Actress Juanita Hansen urges naturalness in acting.
James Marcus, star of The Mediator, faced threats of removal after a six year run in The Man of the Hour. Sedley Brown complained alcohol is the most popular poison, while George Walsh and Brown dispute the meaning of the remark about vacations as tensions rise at Fox studios.
Metro Yorke presents The Promise starring Harold Lockwood and May Allison. The five part screen adaptation shows a Northwest logging camp and river drivers along with metropolitan Broadway life and a college football game. Allison leads a group of football fans as Carmody’s fiancée Ethel Manton.
George Walsh leads the western drama The Mediator at the Rose theatre on Monday. Juanita Hansen stars, with a William Fox production that follows a man devoted to peace as he battles village bullies to secure a lawful home and a bride.
James Marcus, billed as the big man in The Mediator, becomes the subject of George Walsh in Fox releases. He quips that some women study biology because they think it is the science of shopping, reflecting his cynical screen persona.
Maj General Leonard Wood commander of the southeast army arrives in Columbia from Birmingham to visit the cantonment site and address Allen University students. He reviews a city parade with military and civic groups and USC students before a banquet in his honor.
The Treasury Department schedules a 60 million lire paper money issue in 1 and 2 lire bills to replace silver coins of that denomination. Since the 5-lire silver piece vanished from circulation two years ago, it now sells back at a premium.
A.M. Hunsucker of Bogue Chitto Mississippi reports relief from rheumatism kidney and bladder trouble and dizziness after using Foley Kidney Pills. The ad notes disordered kidneys cause side and back pains sore muscles swollen joints and fatigue and credits Manr Drug Co.
A Bluebird offering features Rupert Julian with a strong ensemble in The Right to Be Happy. Friday showcases Mary Charleston and Webster Campbell in Satan's Private Door from Essanay praised as one of the best. Also a Fox Film Comedy of Merit and the three supreme serials The Great Secret The Double Cross and The Voice on the Wire.
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