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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1928
Page
7
A public piano fundraising event at a high school gym aims to raise four hundred dollars. Miss Kembal’s class will perform with about 150 freshmen, 125 sophomores, and 50 other girls in a relay and marching routine. The program includes mini stunts and marks the gym’s first public concert in its decade of use.
Warner Bros presents Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer at the Capitol Theatre for a four day run starting tomorrow. May McAvoy stars opposite Jolson with Warner Gland as the elder cantor and a large supporting cast including Otto Lederer Eugenie Besserer Cantor Josef Rosenblatt Anders Randolf and Nat Carr. The production is billed as a gala event and a supreme achievement after six months of preparation.
The Universal-Jewelette farce comedy The Irresistible Lover starring Lois Moran and Norman Kerry is booked at the Rivoli Theatre tomorrow. A wealthy bachelor wooes a woman who ignores his wealth and rank, sparking a relatable laugh filled plot about overcoming family objections.
William Beaudine directed Sparrows with Beatrice Van adapting and Evelyn Campbell writing the original story. Carl Laemmie Jr supervised production along with a carefully chosen supporting cast including Gertrude Astor Lee Moran Ayrtle Stedman Arthur Lake George Pearce and Phillips Smalley.
The Woman's club of Anchorage Alaska, farthest north member of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, adopts a policy to sponsor and intensify local trades and enterprises. It sent home grown foods to Western Alaska fairs and helped neighbors sell basket weaving and needlework. Seward has a 20 member club with 700 residents and pledged 500 dollars to New East Relief and donated similar sums to the Red Cross and the Girl Scout movement.
April 24 reports show Mrs. Clifford and others at a Lorain County Florists club dinner dance at Ridgeville Grange hall. Visitors include Wm Spiegelberg Ruth and Robert Grabe with Water Grobe family. News notes cite a birth, funerals in Cleveland, M E conference at Oberlin, postnuptial shower in Amherst, P T A meeting at Highland school, and various visits among local families. Ultra violet photography and tree-ring meteorology note scientific ideas.
Frania Kremer, a Yugoslav man, lived in a deserted Belgrade house room for 22 years without knowing World War I or Franz Joseph had died. Recovered when heirs salvaged the estate, he seemed sane and highly clever, though unacquainted with modern life and fashion.
In Elyria on April 24 a fire of unknown origin wrecked a barn, a chicken coop, and a granary at stop 47 Green Line just outside the city. About seventy Elyria residents attended Easter services at St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church on Pear Avenue and East Sith Street. Police were called to quell a rough house at a local home the evening of the 24th. A Cleveland woman suffered severe facial and hand injuries when the car she rode in was struck near Ridgeville. A balloon released by Elyria youths was found at Walkers in Ontario.
Fifty one women were arrested when they marched on the county jail in St Clairsville Ohio to protest arrests. They are to be arraigned today.
Authorities prepared to arraign the leaders of the Sve coal strike today though charges were not yet revealed. It was reported late yesterday that the women demonstrators might be released if they agree not to take part in further protests.
Seven persons were injured, believed seriously, when a Detroit Cleveland bus and an automobile collided near Fremont Ohio. The injured were taken to a local hospital.
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