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Newspaper
Swarthmore News
Location
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1916
Page
4
Community notes from Swarthmore list visits and holidays across local families, invitations, charitable drives, and club events. The Swarthmore Needlework Guild reports 715 garments collected for hospitals, missions, and neighborhoods, with thanks from recipients and plans to expand giving next year.
The epoch making Romeo and Juliet with Francis X. Bushman as Romeo and Beverly Bayne as Juliet is praised for lavish production. Over three months of filming and costs exceeding 250000 dollars include 35000 for costumes and 25000 for Verona market scenes. The production, aligning with Shakespeare, portrays noble families with superb households and grand ceremonial scenes.
A noted quarrel unfolds as one speaker reprimands another after accusing them of sitting on a doll. The exchange includes a motherly exclamation and a sharp retort about parental duties and care.
A lyrical tribute extols a woman as nature’s creation and mankind’s tempering force. The verse praises beauty brightness purity and truth while signaling admiration for the play Ortway's Venice Preserved.
Dr Peter Roberts spoke at the Woman's Club about his Roberts System for teaching immigrants and his work with the International Y M C A. He will discuss How to Americanize the Foreigner at a 3 PM lecture on January 9 at the Woman's Dish House with an open invitation to all interested.
A lighthearted exchange notes a father telling a child Santa Claus is a myth. The child remains unmoved, saying even great and good men face unfavorable comments. The vignette highlights a child’s mature, humorous retort to a simplifying superstition.
The excerpt traces the Christmas story with Mary and the star guiding the wise men and a boy storyteller. It then shifts to a holiday bookstore scene where a grocer receives a suburban call to charge ten cents for animal crackers and remove all elephants, due to a baby’s fear.
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