Rialto Screens Trio Of Entertaining Pictures
Rialto presents The Woman Racket a tale of love and crime in New York night life with Tom Moore and Blanche Sweet in their first talking picture. Not So Dumb stars Raymond Hackett and Elliott Nugent in a Bayard Veiller stage adaptation directed by King Vidor with Julia Faye and Sally Starr in the cast.
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New York
Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer
Rialto Theater
Tom Moore
Blanche Sweet
Moore
Miss Sweet
Philip Dunning
Frances Dunning
Albert Shelby le Vine
Robert Ober
Albert Kelley
Underworld
Raymond Hackett
Mary Dugan
Madame X
Brother Willie
Marion Davies
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Hackett
Bayard Veiller
Bessie Love
Elliott Nugent
Miss Davies
National airports conference to study field problems
Nearly 1000 engineers, city officials and builders will convene in Buffalo May 14-16 for the second national airports conference. Delegates form 11 committees to tackle finance, hangar construction, surfacing and drainage, servicing and storage, legal aspects, and seaplane base issues.
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Buffalo
High Point Praises Private Showing of Disraeli
Local citizens of High Point attended a private screening of Disraeli and offered unanimous praise. Comments from residents such as J. H. Hartley R. M. Andrews Mrs T. C. Johnson and others lauded the talking picture as splendid wonderful and intensely interesting with educational value. The group urged all to see the film at the Broadhurst theatre.
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High Point
Talking Pictures
Broadhurst Theatre
B. W. Hackney, Jr
Police raid nets liquor haul as Burke sought
Chicago officers, acting on a tip about Fred Burke, raided a South Michigan avenue house. Although Burke wasn’t found, whisky and champagne worth 10 900 dollars were seized and nine men were arrested in a bar room of the mansion. Burke faces indictment for leading the St Valentine’s Day massacre gang.
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Chicago
Fred Burke
South Michigan Avenue
Burke
United States
Bugs
Find Records Used By Confederate Unit
Labels peeled from a U S supreme court reports set reveal it was used at the Confederate headquarters in Richmond. The volume bears Juda P. Benjamin’s autograph, former Confederate attorney general and later queen's counsel. A copy of the first civil code for the territory of Orleans was also saved from the state war and navy building basement and placed in the war department law library.
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Washington
Tribute for 10 aviators who died in Siberia flight
Seattle prepares to honor Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland, aviators lost while attempting a Teller Alaska to Nanuk Siberia flight. Bodies to be welcomed from Seward aboard the Alaska with a ceremonial flight reception. Borland to be buried in Seattle. Eielson to be laid to rest at Hatton North Dakota.
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Siberia
Seattle
Carl Ben Esielson
Earl Borland
Teller
Alaska
North Cape
Seward
Borland
Eielson
Hatton
N. D
Outstanding Books of the Month at High Point Public Library
The library lists new and notable titles including Rise of American Civilization by the Beard editors Young Man of Manhattan by Katherine Brush David Livingstone by R J Campbell Down in the Valley by H W Freeman The Hidden City by Philip Gibbs George Washington by Rupert Hughes The Christ of Every Road by E S Jones Romance of Archeology by Magoffin and more as picks for readers.
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C. A
M. R. Beard
America
Manhattan
Katherine Brush
New York
David Livingstone
R. J. Campbell
Campbell
H. W. Freeman
Joseph
Farmig
Philip Gibbs
London
George Washington
Rupert Hughes
Washington
Princeton
Yorktown
Jones
Magoffin
Chemical Engineers At N. C. State Form National Chapter
North Carolina State College's chemical engineers formed the first southern student chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Dr E E Randolph announced the achievement. E H Harwood of Winston-Salem leads the chapter with M A Urquiza of Mexico City as vice president, J E Thompson of Hamlet as secretary, and J D Welch of Hobbsville as treasurer.
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Mexico City
Mexico
J. E. Thompson
Hamlet
J. D. Welch
Hobbsville
Piedmont Men on Good Will Tour Across Carolina and Florida
Representatives from the Piedmont region of North Carolina began a goodwill motorcade through Carolina, Georgia and Florida. The group halted in Chester for lunch and planned a 3,000 mile Florida leg, with participants from Oxford, Durham, Greensboro, High Point, Lexington, Sansbury, and Charlotte.
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Charlotte
N. C
Piedmont
North Carolina
Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Chester
Columbia
Augusta
Oxford
Durham
Greensboro
High Point
Lexington
Sansbury
Poultry Shippers Move 9,262 Pounds in Haywood Carlots
Waynesville reports farmers in Haywood county shipped 9,262 pounds of poultry in cooperative carlots over five weeks, indicating rising local farm output and cooperative marketing efforts.
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Poultry Shippers
Waynesville
Mar
Haywood County
Notable Speakers Set for North Carolina Bar Meeting in Pinehurst
The North Carolina Bar Association unveils a program for its 32nd annual gathering in Pinehurst. Henry Upson Sime of Birmingham and Senator Walter F. George of Georgia will headline with other leaders including Gov. O. Max Gardner and Kenneth C. Royall. Highlights include a memorial tribute, a local bar delegates conference, a golf outing, and officer elections.
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Raleigh
Henry Upson Sime
Birmingham
Ala
American Bar Association
Walter F. George
Georgia
North Carolina Bar Association
Pineshurst
Henry M. London
State Bar Association
George
Murdoch M. Johnson
Moore County
Pinehurst
Henry L. Stevens, Jr
Duplin County
Kenneth C. Royall
Goldsboro
Max Gardner
F. G. James
Greenville
Bar Association
Cyrus D. Hogue
Wilmington
Sims
James MacClamroch, Jr
Greensboro
Justices of the Peace
Cotton in fairly active session on weekend profit taking
New Orleans reporters describe a fairly active Saturday cotton market with early losses from Liverpool cables. Prices fluctuated and closed slightly lower. May eased from 15.57 to 15.47 amid weekend covering and improved demand signals for manufactured cotton goods.
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New Orleans
Mar
Liverpool
May
New York
Tne
Navy blue mousseline frock with cire braid flounce
A navy blue afternoon frock in mousseline de soie features an unusually effective deep circular flounce trimmed with cire braid, lending an elegant textural edge to the garment.
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Cire
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