In Old Mexico thrills Royal audience in debut week
The America Maids Company presented In Old Mexico at the Royal yesterday and last night, drawing crowds today as well. Billie Russell and George A. Lyons lead a lively cast with Gaynelle Everett delivering a standout dancing number, supported by the Dixie Trio and a lineup of big musical hits including Magical Eyes and Beautiful Baby. The production closes today.
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Mexico
America Maids
Royal
Billie Russell
George A. Lyons
Gaynelle Everett
Miss Everett
Dixie Trio
Mammy
Swanee
Dixie
Rollo Thrope
South Sea Isles
Laura Barnett
Ballot contest tallies dominate North Carolina results
The item lists final counts from a ballot contest across multiple towns including Alma, Armour, Atkinson, Bladenboro, Clarkton, Clinton, Evergreen, Fair Bluff, Hamlet, Kenansville, Lumberton, Marion, Maysville, Mt. Olive, Pembroke, Phoe nix, Southport, Teachers, Town Creek, Warsaw, Wallace and Wilmington with totals ranging from tens of thousands to over a hundred thousand votes and notes that the judges will perform a final count before prizes are awarded.
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Alma
N. C
Robert Belch
Armour
WN. C
B. L. Daniels
Atkinson
Sallie J. Kelly
Mamie Woodcock
Pillars of Society at Grand Tomor Row Drama
Triangle Fine Arts Drama presents Pillars of Society at the Grand Tomor. The event features a staged performance on a listed date with local actors and a starring role by a noted performer. Audience attendance is encouraged for the regional arts showcase.
Pillars of Society at Grand Arts Starring Henry Walthall
The Five Reel Triangle Fine Arts presentation features Henry Walthall in Pillars of Society directed by David Wark Griffith. The drama adapts Ibsens tale with a moral lesson and a shocking final climax proving Walthall’s standout performance.
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Henry Walthall
David Wark Griffith
Walthall
Ibsen
The Fall of a Nation film at Victoria promises stark warning
The Victoria debuts The Fall of a Nation, a dramatic tale of a European alliance seizing North America. A secret foreign-born army occupies New York and a force of 150,000 European troops lands with weapons and gas, overtaking the North American forces and installing an Imperial Viceroy in Washington as a dire warning from author Thomas Dixon.
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Victoria
North America
Europe
New York
North American
Atlantic
Washington
Thomas Dixon
Southeastern automobile show to highlight rising car demand
Atlanta January 25 The Southeastern automobile show set for February 24 to March 3 will showcase the surge in motor vehicle demand across the region. Georgia registrations leaped from 24 000 in 1915 to 44 000 in 1916, signaling a record year and a vigorous 1917 trade race with manufacturers eager to display their cars to Southern buyers.
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Atlanta
New York
Mason and Dixon Line
Georgia
New York Women Need Nature Says Alaska Maid
Miss Louise Sachen a Kuyukuk Alaska resident visiting New York for the first time says New York women need more nature and less artifice. Born in the wilds she skates snowshoes and drives a dog team and notes she is amazed by city life and questions facial beauty standards.
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New York
Alaska
Big City
Louise Sachen
Kuyukuk
Miss Sachen
Wilds
Miss Lachen
Ambitious 18YearOld Munition Worker Steals Theater Seats
An 18 year old in New York earned a munition worker salary by phoning theater editors weekly and reserving free seats, later selling them to scalpers. After misnaming editors, police nabbed him while busy swapping free tickets, revealing the vanity of free-seat culture on Broadway. A doorman named Jimmie Dolan arrived from San Francisco with five donkeys, while a London style dog owner flaunts a $16000 jeweled collar for his pet in a brownstone.
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Dispatch
New York
Broadway
Jimmie Dolan
San Francisco
West Seventy-Highth Street
Japanese Girl Seeks Dance Fame in New York
A young Japanese girl travels to America to learn new dances and says the fox trot is very popular in Tokio. She plans lessons from the famous Cha lief and returns in two months. Broadway venues show many Japanese residents of New York dancing the latest steps with American companions.
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America
New York
Tokio
Chalief
Old Black Joe to undergo delicate heart operation
Atlanta Ga January 25 Physicians say Old Black Joe Johnson an aged man stabbed recently will survive a high risk heart operation. Eight stitches have been placed in his heart and surgeons hope to sew the organ like others if done quickly. He remains alive and may recover.
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Atlanta
Joe” Johnson
Joe
Comfort First Glasses Aimed at Unconscious Comfort
Comfort First advertises glasses fitted for comfort with the ideal wearer unconscious. It notes appearance matters and that glasses are made for fastidious people. Eyes examined free.
Rules For Dispatch Contest Close Date And Procedures
The Dispatch contest closes Monday night at 9 oclock with counting Tuesday by judges to determine winners. Candidates must verify names on ballots and submit subscriptions and votes by deadline, with outside Wilmington votes mailed in time. Ballot box sealed, then stored at a local bank until results are published and prizes awarded.
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Clones
Oleg Aad
Wilmington
Phy
Linet Ness
W. Anesdge
Conte
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Minnie Hardy
Goldsboro, N. C
Doris Crawford
Grace Simpson As
N. C. Mrs. R. C. Warlick
Kenansville
Wm. E. Powell
Lumberton, N. C
Iola Ivey
Marion
S. C
Ruth McHachern
Maysvillle
Ernest A. Taylor
Mt. Olive, N. C
Elizabeth McGee
Pembroke, N. C
Margaret Pennington Pearl Sheppard
W. H W. Allman
Asheville
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Southport
Mamie Daniels
Janie James
Bessie Newton
A. B. Page
Town Creek
Gussie
W. H. Walker
Narsaw
Annie Lee Adkins
Los
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Thelma Applewhite
Mamie Baldwin
Alma Bryan
Iffa Boon
M. B. Cavan
Fred W. Dock
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Mamie Godwin
Mary C. Hewlett
James E
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Gladys Johnson
Beatrice Leslie Mary Lorenzo
Herbert MecC'n
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Annabelle Nurnberg
L. Parker
J. A. Raynoree
Edna Brown Alma Padrick
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Willard
Callie Wells
Pillars of Society
Triangle Fine Arts Drama
Henry & Walthall
Mary Page
Edith Hisor
New “‘York
OCO
McIntyre
Bird and Animal
Victor Herbert
Bijou
Pearl of
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Pearl
Dr. Vineberg Masonic Temple
Seaboard Air Line Railway
Progressive Railway of
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Pullman
Orton Building
R. W. Wallace
John T. West
Raleigh N, C
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Raleigh
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Selma
Raleigh Ly
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Standard Railroad of the South
New Orleans
Western Fruit Jobbers Association
Tampa
Fla
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Southeastern Land Show
National Association of Builders Exchange
U.S
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Mobile
Ala
Standard Railroad
Thomas Grocery Company
North Fourth Street
Gover
Hly
el Thatgy
Strouse & Brothers
B. Kuppenheimer & Co
College Cut Clothing Company
J. M. Soley & CO
Tampa, Fla
Sting
the Standard Railroad of
Xtend Limited
T. C. White
Wilmington, NC
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