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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1914
Page
7
Reduced admission prices attract crowds to Alma Do You Live at the Lyric with Celia Mavis in the titular role and Jesse Williams as Pierre. The Old Homestead remains popular after twenty nine years, praised for its enduring appeal and heartfelt moral themes.
The Lyric Theatre to host Maude Adams with Frank Thompson directing a touring Barrie program. The Legend of Leonora features Adams as the central figure, with The Ladies Shakespeares presented as a one act Elizabethan reading. Seats go on sale Monday morning.
Thousands of patrons watched Vendetta yesterday at the Empire cinema and many are expected to return for today s showing. Also on offer is a two reel Vitagraph feature Out of the Past followed by The Bomb a Lubin two reel feature headlining tomorrow with cast including John Smiley Lillie Leslie William Coghill and others. A third reel for tomorrow is the George Ade fable Two Pop Up Fables.
The Dream land vaudeville show is hailed as the best yet at the playhouse with opening Monday drawing continuous roars of laughter. Performers deliver clean humor, and Jack Thomas opens with his Heart of Maryland parody crowding the stage with novelty.
Clever plantation dancing finishes on a kitchen chair as Russell and Ione sing banjo numbers. Ione’s Chicken Rag earns applause. Miss Helen de Rieu wins friends with songs. York and King from New York elicit laughter while the Grahams deliver clean snappy novelty acts to a standing crowd.
An appeal extols Vitalitas as a universal remedy for dyspepsia indigestion rheumatism and debility and promotes quick shipment by express and parcel post. The piece notes its growing fame across America and urges gifting Vitalitas to sick relatives or friends as a helpful present.
Stewart Brooks was named president of the Mobile Bar Association at its annual meeting. A committee will report in January on judiciary reform in Mobile County. Officers include WN. R. Leigh Jr as first vice president and George J. Sullivan as second vice president. Jesse F. Hogan was re-elected secretary. The group plans a bill for reform to be introduced next legislative session.
The Graham king’s act in their three round fifth encounter and the art of self-defense was performed before the emperor. The reception showed signal success. The bill returns tonight matinee and night with a full program change Thursday night. Friday Christmas night is amateur night with several clever amateurs promising appearances. A Santa Claus matinee Thursday afternoon will give every child a gift worth more than admission.
James Van Antwerp on behalf of Van Antwerp Drug Corporation donates the second of six bulls loaned by the Chamber of Commerce to Mobile county stock farmers. Lee J. Zimmern offered the first, with Van Antwerp praising the education and practical help campaign and its potential to foster a superior breed and banish cattle tick in Mobile county.
In a United States district court an involuntary bankruptcy petition was filed against the Pruitt Mercantile Company by Eliasberg Bros Mercantile Co Ellen B Lamar of Selma and Steiner Lobeman of Montgomery. On admission of insolvency the Pruitt company was adjudicated bankrupt and referred to Referee Campbell at Selma.
The showboat Sunny South reached Mobile Sunday, docked at the Mobile and Ohio coal docks to load coal, then left early Monday for upper river landings for five performances. It will visit Mobile again later in January during carnival week.
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