Esther Ralston Shifts Type in Columbia Film
In Warren LX, Esther Ralston is cast brunette for The Spotlight at the Columbia theatre. The plot centers on disguise and a foreign persona, with Ralston as Lizzie Stokes who is elevated to star status by an impresario who reshapes her image. The story mirrors a Syracuse show girl’s experience.
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Esther Ralston
Columbia
Columbia Theatre
Esther Rustes
Miss Ralston
Syracuse
Lizzie Stokes
Lizzie
Ustral
Neil Hamilton
Olga Rostova
Shapeliest Ex-Beauty Shown in Helen of Troy Film
The most beautiful extra in Hollywood, Alice Adair, has been named by a judging committee as Aphrodite for First National’s The Private Life of Helen of Troy. The movie opens at Columbia theatre Monday.
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Hollywood
Alice Adair
Vaudeville at Library Delivers Mixed Tempo and Acts
A Library vaudeville program features Marie and Hughes performing typists on graceful stunts with strong wheel work. Earl Gates dancers display varied terpsichorean styles while Bennet and Clark earn an unusual encore. The film Flying Romeos with George Sidney and Charlie Murray adds light humor to the bill.
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Library Theatre
Marie Hughes
Mr. Hughes
Miss Hughes
Earl Gates
Bennet
Clark
George Sidney
Charlie Murray
Cohen and
Cohan
Aviators Face Perilous Pacific Trial Flight
George and Charlie inadvertently become aviators and must maneuver a ship on a trial trans Pacific flight. They eventually begin the crossing with a dangerous pilot at the controls, facing looping dives and twisting maneuvers.
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George
Charlie
Business Women Open Convention in Williamsport
In Williamsport Pennsylvania on May 18 the tenth annual convention of the Pennsylvania Federation of Business and Professional Women clubs opened with more than 300 delegates registered. State officers were entertained at dinner last night as executive board outlines convention policies for sessions through Saturday.
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Williamsport
Pennsylvania Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs
Helen M. Schluraff
Federation
Bertha Maxwell
Mildred Bunyan
Reading
Mildred Rogers
New Castle
Elsie Faber
Mary Shroy
Lancaster
Lillian Meyers
Georgianna Letherbury
Chester
Gertrude Gordon
Pittsburgh
Fire Damages Block in Clearfield Blazing $80,000 Loss
A May 18 fire swept the Newling block in Clearfield town business section causing about $80,000 in property damage. Firemen rescued residents from apartments above store rooms as flames spread quickly. An explosion followed by roaring flames was reported. The National Meat Market Company Atlantic and Pacific store Reliable Clothing Company and a candy shop suffered losses.
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Clearfield
Newling
National Meat Market Company
Atlantic and Pacific Store Company
Reliable Clothing Company
Queen of May crowned at Juniata College in rain
Miss Eunice Walker of Donora Pennsylvania was crowned Queen of May at Juniata College. The campus editor will graduate June 4. Crowning and ceremonies were disrupted by rain.
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Huntingdon
U. P
Eunice Walker
Donora
Juniata College
William Haywood dies in exile in Moscow at 65
William Big Bill Haywood former I W W leader and radical figure died in Moscow after a long battle with diabetes and heart failure He fled the United States in 1920 to escape a 20 year prison term for obstructing the war His life included leading the I W W founding 1899 and involvement in the 1907 Idaho governor assassination trial with Clarence Darrow as defense attorney
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Moscow
U.P
William
Big Bill" Haywood
United States
Haywood
Russia
Kenshaw Mountain Landis
Chicago
Leavenworth
Inter
United States Supreme Court
America
Salt Lake City
West
Industrial Workers of the World
Stevenberg
Idaho
William E. Borah
Clarence Darrow
Harry Orchard
Big Bill
Viewpoints on budgets and global curiosities
The page notes shifts in spending from prisons to public schools and libraries, mentions ancient art discoveries in Palestine, and reflects on historic copper mining impact. It reports a Romanian oil fire with seven wells and deaths, deforestation, and Krakatoa eruptions. It mentions bootleg whiskey costs in Britain.
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Palestine
Samuel Johnson and the Lost Art Debate Prompt Britain to Invest at Home
In a reflective editorial voice, the piece argues Britons lament losing 250 million dollars in antique art while claiming they gain equivalent modern dollars to rebuild national art. It notes Rafael's Madonna and Child may stay in private hands or move abroad, cites a Spain Italy naval pact, and urges U S cautious buying reflected in classifieds.
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Raphael
Madonna and Child
Lady Desborough
John Snooks
America
Insurance types protect business profits and property
Fire insurance indemnifies against financial loss from property destruction while business interruption insurance covers lost profits during rebuilding. If profits rely on continuous use of your building, you need both protections. Let us explain.
Arrested student threatens to bomb extortion plot
Anthony Mezyinski, 16, Allegheny vocational school student, was arrested as authorities said he conspired to extort $500 from Julius Goldberg of 49 South Main Street. Goldberg and his family had received threatening letters for two months demanding the ransom in a named location.
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Prince
A Grober
Julius Goldberg
South Main Street
Anthony Mezyinski
Allegheny Vocational School
Goldberg
Coppings Shows Offer School Children Cheap Grounds Access
On May 19 1928 the carnival exposes all school children to rides and shows on the grounds for a penny per shows and six cents for admission, with the offer extending to viewing and riding at reduced rates described in the program.
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Warren
Murray
Etiz
United Araht Picture
Devil
Wilson
King of the Clouds
Mysterical
Lewis Stone
Maria Corda
Ricardo Cortez
Sky High Saunders—Aviation— Western
Business Women Open Convention
Blaze
Big Wi. Haywood
Radicals
Moscow Hospital
Krakatoa
Samuel Johnson
Spain
Italy
Sam
Patchen
Fresh
Dallas
Golden Age
E. W. Patchen
PETA
Bernet
Clark m
Brother
Has Roach
Warner Bros
Jason Robards
Ten Ferguson Baby
Mary Louise Miller
Kilert Teland
Morten Inert Dinwsed
Ray Exright
B. V. Lesser
Insurance Warren Savings Bank
Style
Bankok
YEDDO
MILAN
Madras
Youngsville Theatre
Rex
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