Black Oxen to Top Strand Week's Cinema Lineup
Frank Lloyds Black Oxen stars Corinne Griffith and Conway Tearle in a high profile adaptation via First Nation Pictures. The romance centers on a rejuvenated heiress returning to America and finding lasting love, with Mary O Hara helping craft the screenplay. Strong attire and lavish production costs mark its prestige as a season centerpiece.
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Frank Lloyd
First Nation Pictures
Corinne Grif
Conway Tearle
Mr. Lloyd
Delops
Madame Lignny
America
Betty Compson Stars in Miami at Strand on June 22
Betty Compson, leading in Miami, comes to the Strand theatre June 22. The Salt Lake City native rose from vaudeville and Christie Comedies to Paramount features, earning praise for The Miracle Man and a string of notable titles including The Bonded Woman and To Have and to Hold. In Miami she plays a wealthy modern society girl at a winter resort, a roleset praised as one of her best yet.
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Betty Compson
Miami
Alan Crosland Society
Strand Theatre
Salt Lake City
Paramount
Miss Compson
Fell for Three Stories Joke From Old Irishman
An old Irishman tells a work crew a tall tale about falling three stories during skyscraper work. He claims the fall didn’t hurt him, then explains he has already fallen for one and the next two won’t hurt either. The exchange, told in a folksy tone, appears as a quip in Everybodys Magazine.
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Everybody’s Magazine
Baby named Blossom ends sister name debate
A rich uncle favored Violet while Aunt Pansy hinted at a namesake and Mother wanted Lily. The deadlock broke when wise grandpa proposed Blossom, a compromise satisfying all parties.
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Violet
Pansy
Lily
Blossom
Instrument Measures Crops Along Highways
A new measuring instrument devised by the United States Department of Agriculture allows rapid linear measurement of fields adjacent to highways. Successful experiments have been conducted and the device will be used in several states during the current year.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Hoxies New Western Play Comes Thursday
Lone Pine reports Jack Hoxie staging a dramatic mountain ride in The Red Warning coming to the Strand next Thursday. Hoxie rode a mile down a hillside in a burning torch sequence, visible to villagers as his white horse bounded toward the town store. The stunt serves as the film’s anti climax before a rancher chase after rustlers begins.
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Lone Pine
Jack Hoxie
Strand
Hoxie
California
Jack
Howdy
Peppermint Gum Boom Drives Mint Industry Surge
Peppermint flavor is in high demand due to chewing gum production amid rising prices for flavoring extract. Over 4,000 acres in two Michigan counties are under peppermint cultivation on marsh land once used for hay. Land value has surged from 1 to 10 dollars per acre to 100 to 200 dollars with recurring cropping and muriated potash maintaining soil fertility. In September the crop is harvested with a mowing machine.
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Michigan
Labor Member Recounts King Visit as Uncanny Nice
Ramsay MacDonald hosts a parlor gathering where a Labour MP recounts an encounter with the king at Buckingham Palace. The king welcomed the nervous visitor, offered a chair and a smoke, and soon the two men were joking and swearing together like brothers.
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Ramsay MacDonald
House of Commons
William H. Crawford
Collier's
Mr. MacDonald
Ramsay
MacDonald
Buckingham Palace
Sandy
Fear of Work Mis diagnosed as Ergodynamics in Hospital
A Philadelphia hospital patient insists on a full exam for a mysterious illness. The chief resident finally diagnoses ergophobia, a fear of work, and the patient is discharged with the doctor explaining the term as laziness in plain terms.
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Philadelphia
Black Oxen at Strand Promises Fresh Dramatic Ground
Corinne Griffith stars as Ma dame Zatianny and Mary Ogden in Frank Lloyd's Black Oxen, a rejuvenation tale with an original backdrop. Conway Tearle plays a cynical columnist who falls for Zatianny but cannot wed her when she ages, while Clara Bow debuts as Janet Ogelthorpe, a lively flapper.
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Frank Lloyd
Strand Theatre
Janet
Corinne Griffith
Madame Zatianny
Mary Ogden
New
Janet Ogelthorpe
Vermont Governor Hartness Builds Underground Observatory
James Hartness, former Vermont governor and inventor, has built a subterranean cave observatory at his Springfield estate connected by a 200 foot tunnel to an observation chamber with a revolving cast iron telescope turret. Popular Science Monthly notes the design is revolutionary despite initial doubts about air currents and weather.
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James Hartness
Vermont
Springfield
Hartness
Kansas City Times
Popular Science Monthly
First Train Ride Eskimo Woman at Ticket Office
Eskimo woman asks for a ticket to Assaquja while clerk searches a railroad folder and asks where the destination is. The woman points to a bench where Assaquja sits, prompting the clerk to locate the appropriate travel details.
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Assaquja
Going Was Good Watch Theft Defense Quip
A court hearing features the accused claiming a watch was moving itself as he walked by. The judge asks for remarks and the defendant replies that the watch appeared to be going too, so he proceeded to take it together with it.
Pagan Passions at the Strand Community Soon
Grace Sanderson Michie, a young author, writes Pagan Passions about a woman entangled in tropical danger and her rise through self sacrifice. Michie also supervised production in Hollywood, and the Strand Community Theatre plans the June 21 premiere of this photoplay described as full of charm and interest.
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Strand-Community Theatre
Grace Sanderson Michie
Michie
Hollywood
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