Talkies Start Scurry to Sign New Type Star
Broadway buzz centers on talkie plans with Raoul Walsh recruiting a Fox staff and Monta Bell overseeing a Paramount studio. MGM conducts voice try outs as major stars visit back doors for sound film work. Paramount reportedly hires Ernest Vadja as supervising director while Camden New Jersey church rooms host experiments.
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Fox
Carnegie Hall
Camden
N. J
Trinity Baptist
Paramount
Ernest Vadja
Hollywood
Vadia
Broadway
Talkies Bring Legitimate Dramas To Screen
Two prominent playwrights have been offered up to 100000 dollars for the first original talkie play acceptable for the screen. Also in the paper an ad for a Beauty Parlor shampoo chair priced at 15.00. In other news Virginia Lee Roberts a 16 year old musical prodigy dies of a brain tumor in South Bend after being signed with Flo Ziegfeld's 1927 Follies.
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South Bend
Ind
Virginia Lee Roberts
Flo Ziegfeld
New York
County bids set for life saving boat at courthouse sale
County officials debate bids for a life saving boat stored in the police station garage. Commissioner George Snider seeks the lowest bid from Middlesburg sources while rival Cassius Hogle pushes alternative bidders ahead of Monday opening.
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White River
George Snider
Pioneer Boat Company
Middleburg
Em-Roe Sporting Goods Company
Admiral Snider
Cassius L. Hogle
Snider
Hogle
George Cox
Middlesburg
County Naval Armaments
Omer Hawkins
Hawkins
Baptist Meeting Opens Three Day Session At Pittsboro
Baptist leaders from Indiana Illinois Virginia and Missouri began a three day session in Pittsboro led by Rev. E A Williams pastor of the local church for thirty years overseeing the opening programs and remarks.
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Pittsboro
Ind
Indiana
Illinois
Virginia
Missouri
E. A. Williams
Baptist Church
Dust Fatal to Child in Fall at Mill Chute
Inhal ing dust after falling into a chute at a homing mill near Denver Indiana caused the death of John Francis Bell two years old son of Mr and Mrs Ben Bell.
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Times
Denver
Ind
John Francis
Ben Bell
Here
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