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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1917
Page
2
A veteran recounts fierce clashes with German Uhlans near La Grange and Soissons, detailing hand to hand fighting, barrages, and cavalry charges. He describes trapping a unit at telegraph poles, a raid by the Black Watch, and prisoners from French generals. The narrative notes mutilated children seen in Soissons and the toll of retreat and bombardment.
The note mentions an old lady arriving later and teases a third Black A Watch feature to appear the following Saturday, signaling continued coverage.
Amusements note Pearl White stars in May Blossom at the Broadway Theater with a unique Pathe Studios story. French wounded soldiers helped color the film in France, offering artistic brushwork as the original negative was sent overseas. No price increase, orchestra to perform a special score.
Manager George Pryor of the Bijou theater announces the master photo spectacle Jack and the Bean Stalk to show next Monday and Tuesday. Thousands of people will see the reel about Jack and the giant beanstalk. The production cost thousands of dollars and the Bijou is among the first theaters nationwide to screen the film.
Cheorge Walsh, star of Melting Millions, at Rose Monday, says newspapers boast of his football work but ignore his long rowing career at New York Athletic Club. He rows as stroke for two years around 1910 to 1912 and stresses pride in being an oarsman.
Vitagraph Blue Ribbon feature Whom the Gods Destroy stars Alice Joyce Harry T. Morey and Marc MacDermitt at the Rose theatre Tuesday. The Vitagraph cast includes Mary Maurice Charles Kent Thomas R. Mills Logal Paul and Mr Siegel, among others.
In The Greatest Power at the Rose Wednesday, Ethel Barrymore plays Miriam Monroe a chemistry student who discovers exonite may cure cancer. John Conrad uses exonite for a new high explosive and teams with the student and Prof Poole to work on its manufacture.
Violet Merserean returns to present a screen version of Kate Jordan's Susan's Gentleman at the Rose theatre. Sidney Mason portrays her leading man with Kate Jordan William O'Neill and Bradley Barker in supporting roles. The feature introduces the author at the outset with Kate Jordan bowing to start the story.
A spring described as cold and damp brings rheumatic pains lumbago and aches. Mrs T J Buckner of Alardy Nebraska reports relief from lumbago using Foley Kidney Pills, per Mewn Drug Co.
A Cincinnati authority promotes freezone, an ether compound, as a quick relief for corns and calluses. He claims a drop or so applied to a tender corn dries and lifts it out without pain, with a quarter ounce costing little at druggists.
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