Playhouses Offer Good Programs This Week in San Antonio
Christmas shoppers find comfort at local theaters as Texas theater starts strong with The Inaugural Banquet and a slate of vaudeville acts. Eddie Cantor debuts Kit Boots on stage while films like The Fan of the Sheik and Two Can Play headline. The Aztec and Majestic stages showcase Our Gang kids, The Butterfly and the Cat, and musical turnouts by Texas Grand Orchestra and Tremaine dancers amid lively chorus numbers.
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New
Texas Theater
Theister
Kit Boots
Eddie Cantor
Cantor
Wiliam Muth
Ti Guarner
Gener
Geissler
Texas Grand Orchestra
Tadalvh Valentino
Clara Bow
Allan Forrest
George Fawcett
Klein
Sherry Louise Marshall
Mickey Daniels
Mary Kornman
Hal Roach
Majestic Theater
Roach
Mickey
Mary
Texas Four
San Antonio
Thal
Sin Mats
Empire Theater
Syne
Conrad Nagel
Claire Windsor
Meluzes
Ert Rogeh
George Cooper
Germany
Nagel
Kouch
St. Louis
Cooper
Chicago
Wile Nagel
Miss Windsor
Grantland Rios Sportlight
The
Empire News
Felix Cat Carey
Wanted Tire Tubes 33x Must Be For Ford Model
Automobile ad seeking a Tonante tire and tubes 33x required in good condition. Call number 2476 for Foreardition details and pickup arrangements.
Bids for Four Horse Carriers Sought by Bexar County
Notices announce bids and proposals for furnishing five four horse caraters for Bexar County Commissioners Precinct No 3. Bids due Friday November 24 1876 in the county office by 11 o clock am. County Auditor reserves right to reject any and all bids.
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Augustus McCloskey
Bexar County
Usan County Commissioners
Royal Christmas Dinner Menu for King George and Queen Mary
The official Christmas dinner menu for King George and Queen Mary lists clear soup fried fillet of sole braised York ham spinach roast Norfolk turkey chestnut stuffing cauliflower lettuce salad siffle plum pudding mince pies fruits and nuts. The entire meal will use empire products and no wassail bowl details are provided.
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International News Service
London
George
Queen Mary
Empire
Ingland
Cyclist feats and feline tricks mark cinema feature
Noted by Miss Selbini and her partner the acts showcase cyclist accomplishments and feline antics. The cinema attraction The Return of Peter Grimm explores the supernatural and is billed as one of the best pictures of its kind.
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Selbini
Peter Grimm
Thirty Below Zero at Rialto theater
Buck Jones and Eva Noval star in Thirty Below Zero shown at Rialto theater through the week. The film blends thrills romance and mystery with scenes in a Broadway cabaret and the Canadian Rockies as Buck pursues a rum runner who killed Eva’s father and faces a final life or death fight.
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Rislto
Buck Jones
Eva Noval
Pickc
New York
Canadian Rockies
Eva Nayak
Eva
Buck
Vorna the Vamp at Royal theater this week
Jivb Casey Greer and Mickey Riley present Vorna the Vamp a farce on gentlemen preferring blondes with laughs color and song for Royal chorus girls. The Sign of the Claw features Leter the Great dog as star in a thrilling program. Scenets aut Nonsense heads the Kat cartoon. Amidst the Mission closes the lineup with a sport light novelty.
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Vorna
Jivb
Casey) Greer
Mickey Riley
Royal Theater
Royal Chorus
Leter
Patvehwan
Princess Presents Gatsby Adaptation at the Palace Theater
The Princess theater offers a Christmas program featuring Warner Baxter and Lois Wilson in a film adaptation of The Great Gatsby. A secondary plot follows a husband’s infatuation and a reconciliation driven by a young son. A Santa Claus novelty and a Far North feature round out the bill.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great Gatsby
Turing Warner Baxter
Loix Wilson
Princess Theater
Denno
Jay Gatsby
Warner Baxter
Miss Wilson
Joss
Santa Claus
Alaska
North
New Produce Row Requested For Reform Plaza
San Antonio produce dealers asked the city commission to acquire the block west of Haymarket plaza to create a new produce market plaza of about 68 744 square feet. They say the current Haymarket is too small for spring and summer traffic and congestion around Produce Row is worsened by wagons and trucks. The petition was referred to Park Commissioner Ray Lambert for recommendation.
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Produce Row
Bexar County
City Commission
San Antonio
Ray Lambert
Grange Thrown For $10 Loss in Dallas Court
Dallas police charged Red Grange and four teammates after a disturbance at a South Dallas rooming house. They paid $10 fines each for an alleged incident at 4:40 this morning, following a struggle with officers and a girl who tried to block entry.
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Dallas
Red” Grange
Ehie
Funeral Home Petition Presented for Garden Street Site
A petition from Shelton Undertaking company seeks a permit to establish a funeral home on Garden Street between East Nueva and Tolle. It was presented to the city commission Monday and will be read three times. If no protests are voiced, the permit will be granted.
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East Nueva
Tolle Streets
Shelley Undertaking Company
Weather and films tease city life with varied notes
Regional weather reports cover San Antonio East Texas and West Texas with rain, cooler air, and shifting winds through tonight and Tuesday. A film and revue lineup follows, including Dolores Del Rio and Lloyd Hughes leading a South picture, plus a Nguyen and Nagel driven schedule at the Empire and other acts.
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San Antonio
East Texas
West Texas
Kitten Saves Family From Fire Tragedy
Little Blanche Solomon escaped as a house fire swept through her home, with her kitten Grapes awakening her relatives and prompting a frantic rescue. The kitten aroused Meyer Rosenblatt, who woke Blanche's parents and four year old sister Sylvia, but Blanche could not be saved. The child’s body was later found among the ashes.
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Universal Service
Washington
Blanche Solomon
Grapes
Blanche
Meyer Rosenblatt
Sylvia
Turkey Prices Steady as Christmas Week Opens in San Antonio
Wholesale vegetable market shows price increases for celery, sweet peppers rise, and cauliflower falls due to ample supply. Poultry markets move with fryers at 17 to 22 cents per pound while turkeys hold at 30 cents per pound amid overall price activity. Local traders cited Rogers Prott of Pruitt Commission noting steady week, with minor shifts across items.
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San Antonia
M. G. Gugenheim
Gugenhelm-Goldemich Company
Ros. Prottt
Pruitt Commuission Company
A. A. Snyder
Acti
Local Produce Prices On City Wholesale Market
Farmers reported vegetable prices on the local wholesale market with varied figures for squash potatoes celery teets tredishea parsley wax beans green beans and other items. Poultry prices were listed as eggs roosters turkeys fryers hens and more. The note ends with an ad line about Real Estate signs in San Antonio Light Classified Ads.
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San Antonio
Divorce action ends murky San Francisco war tale
In San Francisco on December 20 Captain Arnaldo Murson and his wife’s daughter-in-law Mrs Isabelle Keyes Burch face double divorce actions amid Mann Act charges. Burch returns from New York to press the case while Murson’s marriage to Burch is revealed as the motive, implying a final grand jury action and custody questions for Hadley and Marilyn.
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San Francisco
Arnaldo Murson
Isabelle Keyes Burch
Marson
Grace Marson
New York
Tramutalo
Bnech
Hadley
Marilyn
Matson
Bureh
Christmas Fireworks Sale Sparks Texas Retailers
Largest Texas dealers advertise a wide range of consumer fireworks including Roman candles sky rockets fire crackers and novelty items. The ad lists sellers George Keene Flores and Military Plaza Cr 604 with Artzt's orchestra performing at Fest Hall and a Wednesday night event by Midnite Owls.
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Texas
George Keene
Flores
Military Plaza
Leggers Hold Christmas Prices Down
Palm Beach social leaders wintering there pledge fair prices for liquor during Christmas. A high ranking rum runner states customers will be cared for and extortion avoided. The group claims 38 000 cases of booze landed in the past fortnight and warns against Yankee bootleggers cutting in on their trade.
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Universal Service
Palm Beach
Fla
Cillie
Notte
Waiting on Divorce Court for Custody Return
Mrs. Burch says she hopes to regain custody after the four month period required for a final divorce decree under New York law. She faces a serious charge now, making immediate reunification with her children impossible, though she remains hopeful for the future.
Probe Nearer in Jo Sales Probe Nearer in Jo Sales
Senate judiciary committee advances limits on an inquiry into alleged federal foods in the South. Democrats seek 28 state scope including South Carolina Georgia Florida Tennessee and Mississippi. Republicans push to cover Wilson era Democratic politicians and Southern enforcement of the Fifteenth Amendment. Two resolutions from Harris Georgia and King Utah likely to be redrafted.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Tennessee
Mississippi
Wilson
Harris
King
Utah
Dota Meld Husband Hints at Wife Missing Case
Washington dispatch reports Dr Knute Houck a mental disorder specialist returning from New York state after his wife Gladys Waltee Houck went missing last Wednesday. Authorities sought clues but were met with his incoherent, violent behavior and near total mental collapse, yielding only vague responses.
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International News Service
Washington
Knute Houck
Upper
New York State
Gladys Waltee Houck
Tools Stolen From San Antonio School
Prowlers forced a window at Calhoun and Van Ness streets and took tools worth several hundred dollars from the school. Evita Russi of the board of education said the theft marks the hundredth public directorate robbery reported Monday. Police suspect an organized gang is targeting grafoss schools and are pursuing that theory.
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Evita Russi
Board of Education
Calhoun
van Ness
Rusai
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