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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1934
Page
2
George Hill reports from the Orient that Chinese cinema is rapidly advancing with about 100 feature films yearly. He notes equipment and technique lag behind Hollywood but the output is increasingly presentable and produced by fully Chinese crews.
James Winn faces a county court fight over a theft of a 26 cent pair of suspenders. Costs totaling about 34 dollars charged by Magistrate D G Rhodes and deputies raise the potential shirt price of 238 dollars if he loses the case.
Article notes director Hill plans to film Good Earth on studio sets with a cast possibly entirely Chinese to preserve the novel’s spirit. Studios weigh native actors versus Americans in makeup, while Hill has already shot authentic background settings.
A Hollywood star endured grief after domestic troubles and an arrest on car theft claims from a girl, then injuries in a crash. He retired to the Carolina Mountains, later returned to Hollywood and finished a role in Down to Their Last Yacht, hoping Mae Clarke's love brings luck.
R. J. Reynolds Jr. and his wife Elizabeth Dillard left the Crescent Limited in Winston-Salem en route to the Reynolds estate at the Wins ton-Gale m area. They traveled by motor despite heat in New York and North Carolina, with Reynolds driving the car.
The 77 year old Elizabeth Lyon, once famous as a quintuplets mother, lived in Kevil Kentucky. Her five boys died two weeks after birth and she blames crowds that gathered at her home for the tragedy.
Representative Weaver said NC would protest the committee plan for the $16 million scenic highway linking Shenandoah and Great Smoky mountains. He expects the route after Virginia to divert into Tennessee near Linville, skipping Craggy and Mount Mitchell. If confirmed, NC will seek to present its case to Public Works Administrator Ickes.
The piece notes that veiling began in the East with brides unseen by husbands before marriage. It also mentions daily food intake equal to about one third of body weight for Molea, lists U S households at about 22 833 000, references dancing saloon cars on Czech Slovak trains, and states Niagara Falls conveys about 1 000 tons of water per minute.
The new Kenton railway depot in Middlesex is built from brightly colored enamelled metal with stainless steel fittings and a floodlit platform.
The note urges readers to counter fatigue from colds overwork worry and weak red blood cells with a time tested tonic. It claims the remedy restores strength increases appetite improves color and energy and notes the product value has been proven by generations and modern appraisal.
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