Code of the Wilderness on Strand stage with on location rescue
John Bowers stars in The Code of the Wilderness at the Community Theatre next Saturday with a dramatic Mojave encounter. During filming a mud trap in a river nearly sank a buckboard as Bowers rode Calico to save Alice Calhoun while Otis Harlan kept calm. Jacqueline Logan, Maurice Flynn and others feature in scenes amid rain and a gold rush era pioneer set drawing crowds from San Francisco to view the production site.
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John Bowers
Community Theatre
Mojave Desert
Alice Calhoun
Alan Hale
Otis Harlan
Kitty Bradbury
Mojave River
David Smith
Bowers
Calico
Miss Calhoun
Strand Theatre
Jacqueline Logan
Maurice Flynn
Boulder Creek
California
San Francisco
Actors in Salomy Jane Face Perilous Film Shoot
Several screen players narrowly escaped a bull rush, thunder storms, and floods while filming Salomy Jane. They braved mountain torrents as nature tested the production crew.
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Alomy Jane
Mixed up babies shocks New York families
Joy and sorrow ripple through two households after a two year mix up ends with the Shoemarts mourning a baby born March 6, 1922, while the Fiorellas had welcomed the same infant. Authorities sort the confusion as the families confront years of grief and relief.
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New York
L. Shoemart
Vincent Fiorella
Mix‑up at St Barnabas House Causes Baby Death
A clerical error at St Barnabas House led to a baby being mixed with another infant and dying. The error went undiscovered until recently as the child remained under care at the charity. Mrs Fiorella refused the child, insisting it was not her Joseph. The dead baby was later exhumed, bringing relief to the Shoemart family and grief to the Tiorellas.
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St. Barnabas House
City Mission
Diversification Helps Farmers Shift From Wheat to Livestock and Crops
Washington reports show stricken one crop farmers in the Middle West and Northwest are diversifying to survive. County agents note a drift from wheat to livestock, more dairy cattle, rising poultry, and feed crops. Dairying expanded widely, poultry grew in 130 counties, swine up in 118, sheep up in 15, cattle reductions in beef.
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Washington, D. C
Middle West
Northwest
Department of Agriculture
Iowa
Illnois
Kansas
Minnesota
Nebraska
South Dakota
Montana
Idaho
Washington
Corn Belt
Man Locked in Safe by Yeggs Almost Suffocated
Clay ton Webb, manager of the City Savings and Loan in east Cleveland, was imprisoned in an air tight vault by two armed robbers for 45 minutes. He was carried out unconscious as bandits stole about $4,000 from the vault and cash drawer, leaving $5,000 behind. Webb revived after the rescue. Police and bank officials worked to free him while Webb shouted the vault combination through the walls.
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Cleveland
Clayton Webb
City Savings and Loan Company
East Cleveland
Webb
Slayer Electrocuted Seven Years After Conviction
Dominick Delfino of Archbald Pennsylvania, convicted of murder in 1917 for the Demetro Morobito killing near Scranton, was electrocuted at Rockview penitentiary after evading death penalty for six years by fleeing to Canada and being recaptured in Vancouver last year.
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Bellefonte
Dominick Delfino
Archhbald
Canada
Rockview
Demetro Morobito
Scranton
Vancouver
Woman Solves National Convention Difficulties
Miss Jewel R. Stein, secretary to George F. Mara who oversees the numerous details of the Democratic national convention at Madison Square Garden New York City, brings seasoned experience from a similar post in 1920 at San Francisco and is praised for patience.
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Jewel R. Stein
George F. Mara
Madison Square Garden
New York City
San Francisco
Alaska Trappers Return on Palatial Steamers
Tacoma traders report Alaska trappers returning home from interior rivers and lakes aboard palatial steamers. After winter trapping, they bring sizable fur bales valued from eight thousand to four thousand dollars, preparing for vacations before next season.
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Alaska
Tacoma
Wash
Northland
Not to Be Caught Twice
A clergyman walking a path bumps a cow and apologizes loudly. He then, absorbed in sermon thoughts, collides with a woman at another bend and angrily asks her to move. The incidents unfold as the man reflects on his distraction and etiquette.
To the Last Man era photodrama at Strand theatre
Paramount presents a photodrama based on Zane Grey’s tale of the Pleasant Valley feud in Arizona. The story follows Gaston Isbel and Lee Jorth as their clans clash with romance, tragic deaths, and a single heir who carries on the fight and ends the feud by marrying Ellen. Grey witnesses the production, emphasizing outdoors life and primitive loves and hates.
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Paramount
Strand Theatre
Mr. Gray
Tonto Basin
Arizona
Pleasant Valley
Gaston Isbel
Lee Jorth
Soth
Texas
Jean
Oregon
Ellen
Jorth
Isbel
Guy Isbel
Gaston
Isbels
Mr. Grey
Memorandum for Two Tickets Sparks City Theater Gaffe
A Liverpool magnate asked his secretary to book two seats for a Shakespeare troupe. He planned to call his wife and leave a desk memo. The memo read two tickets for Twelfth Night, but the secretary later reported only six nights of performances would be in town.
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Liverpool
Fond of art and an artery in every city
A Christian Evangelist quips about wealth and art saying she visits every city with an artery. The remark frames her glib self image as she notes money recently acquired and her travel habit.
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Christian Evangelist
The Wild Party Coming to the Strand
The Strand prepares to stage The Wild Party amid dialogue on English libel law and press freedom, with reporters like Gladys Walton reflecting on how truth testing could curb American newspaper style.
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Gladys Walton
The Fated Universal Attraction at Strand Theatre
A vivid report notes a film tease and libel law angles in a sensational story. It discusses a reporter’s alleged scoop and a $100,000 libel suit filed over a misreported tale.
Jimmie Harrison a Christie Favorite at Community Theatre
Jimmie Harrison a longstanding Christie favorite appears in Hold Your Breath with Al Christie Hiers Tully Marshall and Dorothy Devore. His career spans stock seasons with Lenore Ulrich in The Bird of Paradise vaudeville with James T. Powers and roles in Lesson in Love Wedding Bells A Heart to Let The Barricade and Beyond the Rainbow. Hold Your Breath screens at the Community Theatre on July 6.
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Jimmie Harrison
Christie Comedieos
al Christie Hiers
Tully Marshall
Dorothy Devore
Walter
Milwaukee
Lenore Ulrich
James T. Powers
Harrison
Constance Talnadge
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Prairie Land
War Tax Inc
George
Omys Pb Sone Production
George Fawcett
William B. Davidson
Bhet Harte
Ut Wan
Harte
Calfornia
Redwoods
Romance
Lois Wilson
RicnarpDix
Jesge L Lasky
Zane Grey
Yeggs
Slayer
THE
Wild Party
Phe
Gilded Youth
le, Ide and Cie
Universal Attracion
Gircer
Lierbert Blache
Christie
Sweet Daddy
WAL Chipfeature
Walter Hiers
Tully Marhall
Jimmie Adams
Priscilla Bonner
Lincoln Plumer
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