Two Dancers Highlight Lyceum Production of The Very Idea
The Lyceum theatre opens Taylor Holmes's The Very Idea with two dancers, Virginia Valli and Fay Marbe, sharing the stage as Edith and the dancer in the plot. Valli, Chicago-born and trained in interpretive dance, returns to screen stage after silent features like Efficiency Edgar's Courtship and Uneasy Money.
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Taylor Holmes
Lyceum Theatre
Virginia Valli
Mr. Holmes
Edgar
Edith
Gilbert Goodhue
Miss Valli
Chicago
Edith Goodhue
Fay Marbe
New Amsterdam Theatre
New York
Miss Marbe
Woman Plays the Vamp in Brief Skit
The piece depicts a female lead adopting a vamp persona in a short theatrical moment. It mirrors her recurring role as a seductive social intriguer, capturing a sly confidence and wry humor central to her stage persona.
DeMille Leads With Why Change Your Wife at Lyceum
-ceci B R DeMille stands among cinema masters in a Paramount Artcraft feature. Why Change Your Wife stars Thomas Meighan and Gloria Swanson with Bebe Daniels and Theodore Kosloff in a dramatic look at young married life. Story by William DeMille. scenarized by Olga Printzlan and Sada Cowan.
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Thomas Meighan
Gloria Swanson
Cecil B. Demilles
Paramount Artcraft
Mr. DeMille
DeMille
Lyceum Theatre
Bebe Daniels
Theodore Kosloff
William DeMille
Olga Printzlan
Sada Cowan
Picture Garden Promotes Fox Play Should a Husband Forgive
The William Fox special Should a Husband Forgive? comes to Picture Garden Thursday and Friday. The drama asks if a husband should forgive a wife’s past, highlighting universal questions about marital trust and the consequences of concealment.
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Picture Garden
Navy Vacation Camps Aid to Boys
Great Lakes Ill Aug 6 Over a thousand American youths attend summer navy vacation camps aimed at recruiting and public relations. High schoolers 16 or older earn 33 dollars a month as apprentice seamen while six weeks are spent in active service and six weeks in Naval Reserve. The program places boys from many states into a democratic, disciplined environment to promote naval life and future service. Dudley Dowell from Little Rock Arkansas praises the program as fine.
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Frederic J. Haskin
Great Lakes
Ill
Sam
Navy
Naval Reserve Force
Robert Wyman
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Wyman
Dudley Dowell
Little Rock
Ark
Dudley
Lake Michigan
Naval Summer School at Camp Paul Jones Inspires Cadets
Enlistee youths train in naval drills at Camp Paul Jones with three inch guns, rifle practice, and marching. Ensign Lisle Maxson teaches rifle shooting while Gen. Leonard Wood visits. Governor may address the camp. Captain Wurtzbaugh praises the maiden Navy Summer School as a permanent feature. Pie wagon boosts morale as rookies enjoy ice cream. officers note disciplined, healthy cadets.
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Dudley
Lisle Maxson
Maxson
Leonard Wood
Paul Jones
Wurtzbaugh
Naval
Navy Congress
British Trade Union Congress to Meet at Portsmouth
London Aug 11 The annual meet ing of the British Trade Union Congress will be held at Portsmouth in three weeks. The congress aims to address postwar industrial problems and rising living costs while boosting labor participation in politics. A preliminary agenda proposes a general council to coordinate union movements and press for settlements in disputes.
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National Amalgamated Union of Labor
General Labor Council
London
British Trade Union Congress
Portsmouth
Direct Action Doubts Strain Union Leadership
Political debate over ballot measures entwined with doubts about direct action has weakened the standing of some leaders as rank and file union members grow wary.
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