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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1920
Page
7
A busy Saturday lineup includes Ches ter comedy and performances at Paramount with musical and stage acts. The program spans several films at the Strand and Causing theatres including Buck Jones in Just Pals and Behold My Wife at the Rivoli, with local reviews praising performances by Mary Miles Minter and George Mellor.
A 1920s-era reel notes Wanda Hawley as a wholesome Golden Girl from the West, with Seattle roots and a vocal past, who rose to fame in Realart Pictures Corporation. The feature The Mother and the Bride is directed by D W Griffith, showing at Majestic Theatre with a plot built on circumstantial evidence and a dramatic rescue.
Milwaukee based coroner findings led to Glenway Maxon Jr and three associates being charged after a Wednesday night auto crash that killed Frank Fribler. Maxon and companions William Parker Jr Alfred Weller and John Paddock were ordered held on second degree murder charges and bound over to municipal court on manslaughter counts with $5000 bonds.
The article notes girl patrons at Toronto Y W C A pools are urged to perform trick swims to build confidence. It describes a range of water stunts they practice to showcase skill and poise, reflecting a program aimed at empowering young women through aquatic activities.
In Chicago a united stewardship campaign for Methodist Episcopal churches will run January 17 to February 20. Rev Tutner E Lovejoy of Chicago, secretary of stewardship for the church’s conservation and advance committee, announced the drive. He said the penny is a basic standard of giving to church and Sunday school, noting that despite wealth rising tenfold, average Methodist giving is only one cent more per week than forty years ago.
A novel fishing sport by the Pacific coast uses blimp like airships. Fishermen ascend to height to spot schools of fish then drift with them and reel in catches. The method emphasizes speed and aerial vantage for dramatic angling.
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