Daly Triumphs in The Very Minute at Belasco Theater
Arnold Daly returns to the stage with a strong performance in The Very Minute at the Belasco Theatre. John Meehan’s temperance drama follows a son of a college president who battles inner drink temptation after a family tragedy and moral testing by trustees.
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New York
Arnold Daly
Grim Reaper
John Barleycorn
Daly
Belasco
John Meehan
Meehan
Europe
Mr. Daly
David Belasco
Cathleen Nesbitt
William Morris
Forrest Robinson
John Cope
Bosom Friends
Lew Fields
Liberty Theater
Mr. Field
Mr. Fields
Nat Goodwin
David Warfield
Sebastian Krug
Gretel
Krug
Negro Cast Delivers Mixed Results in Sunny Southland Plays
Review of Ridgely Torrence's Sunny Southland at Garden Theater notes fourteen cast members and 1500 tryouts exposing a disappointing performance by a black cast though the plays show charm. The Rider of Dreams is praised as a character study, Granny Maumee is a poignant tragedy, and Simon the Cyrenian offers a religious flavor. direction by Robert Jones is praised.
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Ridgely Torrence
Sunny Southland
Garden Theater
Life In
Dixie
Rider of Dreams
South
Cliff Club
Granny Maumee
Torrence
Simon
French West Indies
Rome
Robert Jones
Subway Flirtation Sparks Busy Husband Confession
A married man tells his wife in comic fashion how a subway encounter with an unnamed young woman ignited a sudden crush. He details eye contact and a kiss before she disappeared on the platform, leaving his wife to joke about advertising for the mystery girl.
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New York Mail
Too Timid to Graduate Disappears, Joins British Army
John Wachtman, once honor man at Harrisburg Technical High School, vanished before graduation citing disdain for "raving about being at the head of my class." A censor-passed letter later arrived from France stating he is with the British army.
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Harrisburg
John Wachtman
West Fairview
Harrisburg Technical High School
John
Henry Wachtman
France
Odd Shoes Prompt New Pairs For Mrs Antoun
In a Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph tale a shopper seeks shoes for Mrs Antoun. An assistant notes one foot is larger than the other and later another staffer finds the opposite with a smile. The piece ends with Mrs Antoun buying two pairs.
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Mra. Antoun
Pittsburg
Helen Holmes at the Queen in The Railroad Raiders Today
Helen Holmes appears at the Queen Theater in The Railroad Raiders a daring action film with railway wrecks and night photography on a speeding train. Also on today a Jimmy Dale Series episode and Mothers of France with Sarah Bernhardt noted for wartime France scenes.
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Helen Holmes
Queen Theater
Jimmy Dale
Edna Hunter
Marie la Salle
Jimmie
Paul Panzer
Doris Mitchell
Mothers of
France
Sarah Bernhardt
Mothers of France
Madame Bernhardt
Alice Brady
Jackie Saunders
Sunny Jane
Miss Saunders
Horkheimer
Fraternity Leaders Back Universal Military Training
Sigma Chi delegates from major eastern colleges meet in Washington on the eve of war to back a federal universal military training law and end volunteer army service. The convention funds a Red Cross hospital unit and pledges medical volunteers as the season of Greek letter society gatherings begins.
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United States
Igma Chi College
Washington
University of Pennsylvania
Pittsburg University
Cornell
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Washington and Lee University
University of Virginia
University of North Carolina
Brown
Lehigh
Dartmouth
Columbia
Hobart
Syracuse
George Washington
Tri-Province
Sigma Chi
Republic
Red Cross
Greek Letter Society
Fifty Cents Worth of Beauty in New Half Dollar
The Baltimore Sun praises the new half dollar for its attractive artistic coinage. It lauds Liberty with her sheaf of plenty and symbolic stars, noting the coin’s beauty amid optimism, though it cannot buy much at current egg prices.
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The
Baltimore Sun
Mint
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Sweet Song
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Negro Players
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