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Newspaper
Kingsport Times
Location
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1925
Page
12
The Society Editor invites readers to mail or call in social items about visiting friends traveling or other social news. Submit details with name and address or telephone. Items accepted daily except Sundays 8:30 to 12 and 2:30 to 5, phone 136.
A poetry fragment by Elizabeth Dillingham contrasts red geraniums with liberty. Local notices report Rogersville dance in W O W hall with Florida Syncopated Orchestra from 10 to 2, a Kingsport Cotillion Club dance with Amra Grotto Orchestra, and a treasure hunt hosted by Mr. and Mrs. J C Price featuring clues across Kingsport venues ending with a vanity case prize.
A parade of Rogersville and area residents arrive or depart for visits and family time. Names include Bert Henry, J H Carriger, E M Lynch, W C Baines, Georgia Bevins, C J Kestner, Kent Walker, Greaver Scanland, Jess Pyle, Margaret Jennings, Ann Jennings, C W Fritts, and many others visiting relatives, shopping, or returning home from trips to Bristol Roanoke Clinton Johnson City and Ohio. Several locals host guests at homes on Holston Heights Maple Street and Hiss Street.
In New York a Parisian hairdresser outlines three steps of the permanent wave, noting heat control at roots to prevent end damage and claiming the technique, invented in 1905, has transformed beauty by making women more attractive. He describes a two sectional heater and automatic curler for a kinked root wave and a flat wind for a wide, even curl.
News notes discuss Alice Mills in The Keeper of the Bees and Schulberg Productions loans with Clara Bow. It covers discoveries by producers, mentions Wilma Banky, Rudy, and Stair, plus anecdotes about Ernest Tourrence, Jay Hunt, Walter Hiers, Del Lord, and Gertrude Olmstead with a brief reference to medical posturing.
First National teases a major production of Uncle Tom's Cabin with Charles Gilpin as Uncle Tom Colleen Moore as Topsy and possibly Ernest Torrence as Simon Legree. Filming is planned amid southern cotton fields Paramount and Fox eye competing versions Marguerite Clark previously starred as Topsy in a prior Paramount film.
Harold Bell Wright aids Paramount on A Son of His Father while Peter B Kayne appears at Fox studios Fannie Hurst will work with Famous Players on a tale to be produced Montague Glass assists Samuel Goldwyn on Potash and Perlmutter Also involved are Courtenay Ryley Cooper Winifred Eaton Reeve and Donald Ogden Stewart A large Irish cast led by Tom Meighan will shoot in Dublin before returning to New York to finish the picture Adapted from The Imperfect Impostor in the Saturday Evening Post.
Star Dust Antonio Moreno has purchased a 120 foot yacht and may return from Europe aboard it. Burglars robbed Helen Ferguson’s home stealing furs and jewelry valued at 5,000 dollars, including wedding gifts. Norman Kerry was thrown from a horse and hospitalized. Edward Earle sought relief from a stiff neck after wearing a three and a half inch collar in The Viennese Medley. Thomas Meighan’s parents hoped he would pursue medicine. Huntly Gordon takes up golf after completing Moby Dick. John Barrymore to begin Byron’s Don Juan for Warner Brothers. Florence Turner returns to the Silk Screen era amid a flurry of comeback chatter.
Edwin Carewe signs a long-term contract with First National to lead the new serial Joanna With a Million. Byron Morgan of Wally Reid racing stories also inks a long-term Paramount contract. Charlie Ray’s comeback gains momentum with Metro-Goldwyn co starring Pauline Stark in A Little Bit of Broadway. Katherine Hill, model for Harrison Fisher, screens at Paramount for The Wanderer with Collier Jr. and Torrence.
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