The Big Killing opens at Colonial Theatre with Beery and Hatton
Paramount's Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton star in The Big Killing as Powder-Horn Pete and Dead-Hye Dan. The town thrilled at the duo's inept sharpshooting and glass-breaking gags while a light romance and a cohesive plot drive the comedy. Mary Brian headlines the supporting cast.
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Freckles film at Academy captures Porter spirit
An authentic screen presentation of Freckles opened last night at the Academy. The F B O production directed by Leo Meehan follows Gene Stratton Porter’s novel closely, preserving the action and atmosphere as intended by the author.
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Crimson City Promises Glamor and Drama Tomorrow
Enthusiastic crowds greet The Crimson City starring Myrna Loy as Nan Toy a Chinese slave girl who rescues and nurses a white embezzler fled from England The ensemble includes John Miljan Leila Hyams Matthew Betz Anders Randol Sojin Anna May Wong and Richard Tucker Archi Mayo directs a melodrama praised as exciting and beautiful for the season
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Myrna Loy
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Academy
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Leila Hyams
Matthew Betz
Anders Randol
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Anna May Wong
Richard Tucker
Archie Mayo
Nan Toy
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Wild West Show brings real circus vibe to Palace Theatre
Hoot Gibson's The Wild West Show uses authentic circus performers to create atmosphere during filming at the Palace Theatre tomorrow and Thursday. Pranks among old-time circus men punctuate the set as the cast reacts to the familiar cry Hey Rube. Mrs Nancy Frantz returns home after a wintry stay in Huronpe.
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Hoot Gibson
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Rube
Nancy Frantz
Huronpe
Letter Golf Puzzle Stumps Readers With Cake Theme
The Thursday paper presents a letter golf puzzle titled This Takes the Cake in which players must transform one word into another in a fixed par strokes. It explains rules: change one letter at a time, each step must be a valid common word, with examples like COW to HEN and CLAM to SOAP while aiming to eight strokes.
Maryland Vote Planned On Pay Increase For Legislature
Governor Ritchie signed a proclamation ordering a referendum in November on raising Maryland legislator pay to 15 dollars a day for the 90 day biennial session. The plan would lift total annual cost from 65,250 to 195,750 covering 28 senators and 117 delegates, with officers excluded.
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Maryland
Ritchie
State Senate
House of Delegates
Assembly
Vitaphone bill at Maryland Good holiday attraction
The Vitaphone program at the Maryland Theatre dominates the first three days of the week. Vincent Lopez and his fourteen piece recording orchestra headline, delivering lively piano and ensemble numbers. An octette in slave garb performs Volga Boat Song, plus a successful comedy When the Wife's Away. William Demarest and Thomas Meighan are featured in The Racket.
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Vincent Lopez
M. K
Volga
William Demarest
Thomas Meighan
Child Severely Injured by Swing Hook Accident
The daughter of Clarence Frush of Indian Springs is hospitalized at Washington County hospital with a badly lacerated cheek after a failing hook on a swing cut her.
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Clarence Frush
Indian Springs
Washington County
Postmaster announces July Fourth mail schedule
Fourth Schedule E. M. Tenney reports July Fourth service: no city or rural deliveries, general mail collection at 6 a.m., regular holiday collection at 5 p.m. Lock boxes available to renters from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m.
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E. M. Tenney
Mr Hiram Showman Visitors at Lorewa Land
Fragmentary text mentions Mr Hiram Showman and Mrs OQ Bo Ke. Lorewa visitors appear in a clipped clipping. The readable bits indicate names and a social context but lack a complete event or clear date.
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Bo Ke
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