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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1920
Page
6
Joan waits for Prosper to speak of their past and Pierre in a tense parlor scene set beside a crackling fire. He admits building the cabin for another woman and recalls a moonlit rescue, while Joan confronts his truth with restrained fury and lingering tenderness, the memory stirring her deeply.
Pictures today at Colonial Rosemary Theby stars in Love Pay Day. Bijou features Eric Stroheim in Blind Husbands and Baxter's Sea Beach girls in The Rehearsal. Orpheum presents Blanche Sweet in The Hushed Hour plus vaudeville. Star shows Anita Stewart in Kingdom of Dreams. Belasco stars Sylvia Breamer in Respectibility by Proxy. Gem offers Sunshine Comedy The High Divers Last Kiss. Savoy runs The Value of Life and Who's your Neighbor. Family Theater stars Vivian Martin in You Never Saw Such a Girl and His Last False Step. Princess has Elsie Ferguson in His Parisian Wife, Quincy has Pearl White in The Black Secret, Helen Gibson in Broken Trestle, Snap Pollard in Comedy.
Spanish author Vicente Blasco Ibanez said American men live like prehistoric hunters while women chase dollars and nod to feminine emancipation. He claimed men fear their wives and that women tire of constant bowing and scraping, expressing in Paris dinners they prefer equality.
Senor Ibanez links California’s name to a Spanish novelist and an imaginary island. He argues Cortez adopted the name for a Western state and asserts Montalbo’s isle's Amazonian fiction foreshadows gender relations in the United States. The piece features quotes on domination and sexual stereotypes.
In San Francisco Mathias Becker aged 84 and his 80 year old wife were divorced after 36 years of marriage. Becker alleged the wife was crazy about men and had two affinities. She countered with a cross bill denying the charge and accusing Becker of cruelty. court awarded her a decree.
Coblenz Germany Feb 29 war department cable announced no more American officers will be permitted to bring their wives from America to the Rhine until living conditions in Coblenz improve. Coblenz, crowded as headquarters of the Inter-Allied Rhineland High Commission and home to 15 000 US troops, hosts about 200 officers with wives and many with children and servants.
Port of Portland reports a cargo discharge from the steamer Waban from Vladivostok including furs valued at 750 000 and walrus tusks over 100 years old.
Rev Gustav Francis Beckh, pastor of the Oakland Unitarian church in Bristol, rejected a 50 pound stipend increase offered by his congregation. The San Francisco native, married with one child, earns 250 pounds yearly and argued that church leaders deserve only shelter, clothing, education access for children, and some leisure amidst wartime hardship.
New York March 3 J E Taussig manager of the Wabash railroad during government control was elected president of the road at a board meeting in New York. He will lead the company as it resumes private operation under normal conditions.
Fragmentary text mentions a president and chairman of a board under federal administration. It references Paris and Herne with a note about numbers and 124 percent usage by a steadis, but the passage is incomplete and punctuation inconsistent.
The U S Marine Institute at Quantico Virginia provides education alongside military life enabling enlistees to study from grammar to advanced subjects such as mathematics languages and journalism. Courses are taught by practical instructors from diverse backgrounds with three study hours daily five afternoons a week. Students gain discipline and leadership while enjoying athletic facilities and recreational activities.
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