Popular Plays to Be Filmed and Probed in 1920s Stage Mix
Negotiations finalize between producer Kime and renowned author Owen Davies. Seventeen plays including The Inheritance and Next Door are acquired for film. Studios expect box office success from dramatic, sentimental, and novelty pieces. plan showcases with high audience appeal and star power.
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Wrecrer
Kime
New York
Jon
Popwlar
Owen Davies
Eversinas
Jack Spadin
Cupid
Mo Jordan
Fim
Ed Barrys
Willarg Johnson Procedural: Clarkstore Pictures Exhibit
The notice describes a display or feature related to Willarg Johnson and Jack F. Goodwin, mentioning films, photographs, and a special feature for Monday and Tuesday. It notes restrictions on where the pictures can be presented and references efforts to secure snaps of a fight.
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Clarkstore
Niland Mason Prize
United
Wapecer Murray
Odeor Ea ¢Er
Jack F. Goodwin
Red Seal Plays Set from Vitagraph Lobin-Seth-Essanay
The Red Seal Plays, a Selig spectacular release, curated through Vitagraph Lobin Seth Essanay, describe a feature film combination titled Red Seal Plays. It promises quality and dates hint at forthcoming titles such as The Carpet from Bardad Ba The Hecors and The antljonzize 3aly Ba.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vitagraph
Lobin-Seth-Essanay
Carson
Bardad_ Ba
Hroadeax Favor Heem Mie Production Leads Cast
Coombs has lead as Guy Voombe opposite Katherine La Salle in the theatre’s Merston drama. The production features readings at Poplar Alent Reading Swan with Jaie role and support from Miss La Salle and Mz Cogn for the show’s lineup.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guy Voombe
Swan
Katherine la Salle
Merston
Karem
Miss la Salle
Mz Cogn
Lyllien Brown Leighton a Popular Selig Player
Lyllien Brown Leighton known across oceans and foreign countries as a leading comedy film actress. She appears opposite Jobe Lancaster in Len z Comedies directed by Norval MacGreewr. A jolly, companionable star who can portray many comic characterizations. She started as a newspaper woman then moved to the stage with a touring sketch act and has written vaudeville pieces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burescde
Ater
Miss Leighton
Jas Siso
Busy county agents report mixed farming progress across regions
Extracts show Horticulture updates in Fayette and Marion counties with farmers cutting coat material costs and planning pasture improvements. Irregular yields and pest damage noted. Hogs suffer cholera in Kingsport area while drainage projects and irrigation efforts surface in Monongalia and Nicholas counties.
Spraying Demos Lead to Home Use Plans in San Jose Area
Report notes tomorrow spraying in San Jose scale control after pruning. Demonstrations for agricultural classes were followed by supervised spraying practice. Students arranged schedules to access a spray pump at home and extend farm management lessons across counties including Sissonville and Beech Bottom.
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San Jose
Kenswha
McVooran Seils
Sissonville- Tite Demonstator
J. J Beane
Sissonville
Ben Milam
Esonrilie
Ton Fairzman
C. H. Fisk Wharferion
Berkhire
Wissee Brian
S. Mirans
Woodsthool
Culture Inture
F. H. Wey
Dana
Brooke County
Beach Bottom
Beech Bottom
Brooks Walter
Windsor
Raleich County
Ig 2 Fonds Nanoma
Extens
Ghent
Boadlly
Fia4
Powe
I B. Crestact
Stockes
Williamson
Saanen
Preston County
McDonald
Bayes
Wifl
Wood
S- Vandersort
Director Films Thrilling Scene Amid Storm
A film crew led by Henry Mes with Cal Company faced a dramatic scene as clouds darkened the sky during a scheduled take for a Diz Production. A sudden storm drenched the set, yet the director urged the cast to improvise, capturing a tense escape scene as the dam dammed film stock and danger heightened the shoot.
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Cluger
Universal City
Cal
Henry Me
Miefise
Yale Senior Marries Princess Vetsera of Austria
Donald S. Andrews, Yale student, wed Mrs Ave Hayne who calls herself Princess Vetsera of Austria. He faced parental and faculty anger as they banished him from Yale. Andrews and Vetsera claim a claim to the Austrian throne through Vetsera, daughter of Crown Prince Rudolph and Baroness Vetsera.
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Donald S. Andrews
Yale
Ave Hayne
Princess Vetsera
Austria
Ms. Andrews
Rudolph of
Baroness Vetsera
Palestine Shrines and Scale in Bryce View on Holy Land
James Bryce notes Palestine is a small, resource-poor land between the Mediterranean and the Jordan. He argues it should be neutralized as a shrine and preserve for mankind, yet its natural beauty is modest and its value lies in ancient shrines, legends, and historic sites attracting pilgrims and Christians alike.
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Washington
Holy Land
Palestine
James Bryce
United States
National Geographic Society
Lord Bryce
Mediterranean
Jordan
Dead Sea
Lebanon
Hermon
Beersheba
New Jersey
Israel
Maritime
Ting David
Jerusal
Moab
Tarae
Abraham
Toga
Lart
Lord Brice
Jordan Valley
Joshua
Nox
Ford Bryce
Greece
Tzkem
Mar
Thern
Middle Italy
Aay
Scotland
Asia Minor
California
Lord Brsce
Christiams
Belgium
Lombardy
Jaffa
Andromeda
Perseus
Jonah
Hamburg to employ women as streetcar conductors
Hamburg plans to hire strong young women as conductors on city street cars from Blankenese to the present line to free men for war work. The city seeks two such workers while a number of women already serve as conductors on other routes.
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Hamburg
Bambore
Blankenese
Monroe Doctrine and a world federation debate
A conservative push argues for continuing aloofness in foreign policy while exploring broader involvement through leagues or federations. Citing Washington and Norman Angell, the piece weighs neutralism against joining a world league, urging unity among states as a path to global peace and national duty.
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Norman Angell
Glu
America
Orld
Tango Now Danced to the Tune of a Billy Sunday Hymn
In Philadelphia on May 2, dancers turn Billy Sunday hymn Brighten the Corner Where You Are into a one step. The hymn inspires a lively syncopated dance as public and private events adopt the tune. Some fear liquor and theater influences but the rhythm remains popular and widely danced.
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Philadelphia
Billy
Prohibition of vodka in Russia linked to Polish potato relief
London May 1 The prohibition on vodka in Russia is said to have saved Poles from starvation by freeing potato crops planted for distilleries Ernst P Bicknell returning from Poland for Rockefeller War Relief reports that much of the Russian potato harvest was grown by millers for vodka and that an ukase ended this, prompting a wartime rush and widespread devastation. The Polish land holds the best potato fields and wartime grain stores sustain the Polish supply while German irrigation systems aid regions without potatoes.
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Correspossenne
Associated
Presa
London
Russia
Poland
Ernest P. Bicknell
Rockefeller Foundation War Relief Committee
Dir- Millers
von. Hindenbure
Warsty
Legged pink man causes rudish jump
New York on May 1 reports a bizarre incident aboard a train where a man described as legged pink caused a jump scare. Michae! Rudish, decorator of 241 Sore Avenue, claimed he had been pestered by a small figure referred to as boevlecced pink. The report notes the odd scene and Rudish’s startled reaction.
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New York
Sore Axenue
Carl
Golles
Pansair
Hadish
St. Marys Hospital
Police
Annesin
Minor Horrors of War pamphlet on insects in armies
Cambridge May 3 Insect guide by Prof A E Shipley president of Christ College Cambridge and former chief instructor to the Prince of Wales describes lice bed bugs flies fleas ticks rats and moths as disease carriers in camps and at the front with simple language for troops The booklet lists typhus spread by lice typhoid risk from flies and other insects and notes historical Canturbury Cathedral tick cases among worshippers.
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Cambridge
Eng
A. E. Shiples
Christ’s College
Prince of Wales
Shipley
Canterbers
Matinee Idol Joseph Galbraith Joins Studio Forces
Joseph Galbraith a former Belasco stage idol in Los Angeles has joined the American studio photoplay forces under Archer MacMackin directing. He is slated for leading roles in Ely We A, said to enhance the company with his screen personality.
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Joseph Galbraith
Belasco Theater
Los Angeles
Photoplay Forces
Archer MacMackin
Galbraith
Sian
City ordinance bans burning trash in Clarksburg streets
The city will enforce a new ordinance prohibiting burning trash papers or rubbish in any street or alley in Clarksburg starting immediately. Mayor G H Gordon authorized the measure with Welch and Fullerton druggists delivering to parts of the city.
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Clarksburg
G. H. Gordon
Welch & Fullerton
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Cabeh County
J. W. Wethington
T. A. Palmer
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Searboro
W. Va
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WB Honaker
Marshall County
Richmond
Mr Richman
Torcarn
San
Horndyke
Eyler County
H. D. Groves
Wick
Marion
H L Smith
Reese
Jersey
Nicholas County
Iim and
Agricuumral
Sasha
Marie Walcamp
Wellington
Torrent
Pressom
Draha
Rudolph
Oscar Straus
American Academy of
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Pussihir
American Studio Forces
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