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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1929
Page
12
The all talking picture The Voice of the City by Willard Mack, a Cosmopolitan production for Metro Goldwyn Mayer, is playing at the Colonial Theatre in Hagerstown. Critics hail its simple direct technique and rapid 24 hour plot from a prison break to a dramatic finish.
An advertisement urges readers to insist on the original Epsolabs sugar coated Epsom salts reformulated into tablets. It markets a mild laxative that is easy to take and pleasant, warning to accept no substitutes.
Douglas Fairbanks stars in The Iron Mask, a swashbuckling Dumas tale of D Artagnan and the three musketeers with romance and intrigue set in seventeenth century France. The film features action, comedy, tragedy, and grand settings as captives and intrigue drive the plot.
Barbara Bennett, daughter of actor Richard Bennett, stars in the RKO talking picture Syncopation at the Maryland Theatre. The film features lavish cabaret scenes and music by Warings Pennsylvanians, offering her a chance to showcase a dancing career.
The Broadway Melody recreates a huge theatre with stage seats orchestra pit and backstage details in MGM’s all talking singing and dancing musical now playing at the Maryland Theatre. Anita Page Bessie Love and Charles King lead a strong cast in this spectacular production.
Fire destroyed the Victory Sparkler Company fireworks plant in Chestertown Md caused by defective wiring. An estimated $20,000 loss and an unadvertised $3,000 display accompanied the blaze. Ten workers, five men and five women, were inside but escaped unharmed.
Keedysville letters report visits among families in Hagerstown Clearspring and nearby areas. Mrs Kearton hosted relatives. Clinton Trumpower and sons called on Jesse Martin family. the Fleming family and Bobby chatted with locals. Union Society held a 7 pm meeting with readings on loyalty and scriptural verses. box social set for May 14. Young People's Conference delegates to report next Sunday. Christ's Reformed Church institute planned May 15. Clearspring Young People marked Mother’s Day with program at Wilson. next meet June 3 at M E Church Clearspring. Roy Clark spent Sunday with friends.
The rules explain changing one word to another by single letters with valid words each step. The solution given moves from HASTY through HASTY PASTY PARTY PARRY HARRY HARRY, showing a chain ending at HARRY.
Fragmentary social items describe Mrs. Rhodey ill with paralysis at Rockdale home. Relatives including Misses Mary Catherine and Betty Jane Daugherty and the Huyetts visited their grandmother Mrs. Mary Frugh on Tuesday.
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