Pauline Frederick Paramount Star in Double Crossed at Grand
Pauline Frederick, noted Paramount star, appears in Double Crossed a dramatic tale of a young wife. The Grand Theatre presents the photoplay Friday and Saturday offering a strong feminine appeal and hopeful escape from gloom.
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Pauline Frederick
Paramount
Wyata
Lydia Gilmore
Spider
Audrey
Nanstte
Sapho
Miss Frederick
Grand Theatre
The Grand Promises a Better Experience Next Time
The Grand assures patrons they will not be disappointed again and promises improvements to service and comfort. Management cites changes in staffing and operations aimed at restoring guest satisfaction after recent concerns.
Pickett Stock Company Presents A Pair of Sixes Comedy
The Pickett Stock Company brings Edward Peple's A Pair of Sixes to Royal patrons tomorrow and Thursday with matinee and night showings. The Wilmington company stars Blanche Pickett in the famous Ann Murdock role, supported by George Persons Hale Hamilton and Ivy Troutman in the original New York lineup. Ralph Chambers leads the cast after a hit in Monday's show.
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Pickett Stock Company
Edward Peple
New York City
Longacre Theatre
George Persons
Hale Hamilton
Ann Murdock
Ivy Troutman
Picketts
Wilmington
New York
Blanche Pickett
Ralph Chambers
Sunshine Maid June Caprice Stars in Unknown 274 at Fox
Tomorrow Fox Productions unveils June Caprice in Unknown 274 a bright romancing drama with thrills and light humor. Hale Hamilton plays T Johns Boggs replacing the original. also noted is the long running New York hit A Pair of Sixes and its famed farce status. Seats go on sale at 9 a.m. at the theatre box office for midweek matinee and evening shows.
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June Caprice
Sunshine Maid
Fox Productions
Fox Studios
Old Earth
June
Truck Collision Injures Huggins and Cartwright in Scott's Hill
A truck driven by Leon Cartwright collided with a Ford touring car driven by M. G. Huggins on Scott's Hill road near the Williams home. Huggins was taken to James Walker Memorial Hospital and later home. Cartwright was bruised and treated at a local residence. Cartwright had driven the truck from a garage where he sought to test the vehicle he wished to buy.
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M. G. Huggins
Leon Cartwright
Scott's Hill
Delgado
Huggins
Edgar ‘D. Williams
Cartwright
John Burton
James Walker Memorial Hospital
Allen Huggins
C. S. Bur
Registration of Alien Enemies Under Police Direction
The registration of enemy aliens starts Monday February 4 and runs that week under Chief of Police N J Williams. Every male alien over 14 who is not a naturalized citizen must register. Women are not required to register. Photographs and fingerprints are taken and registrants must list occupations since January 1, 1914. Arrest follows noncompliance. The measure aims to locate aliens potentially aiding espionage for Germany and to protect the aliens.
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N. J. Williams
United States
John D. Ryan May Be Willard's Successor
New York, Jan 29 John D Ryan of this city a prominent financier and head of Amalgamated Copper later merged into Anaconda is cited as a leading candidate to succeed Daniel Willard as head of the War Industries Board. He rose from Montana banking and copper interests to preside over vast mineral and transportation holdings and a power network.
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New York
John’d.ryan
Daniel Willard
War Industries Board
Anaconda Copper Company
Anaconda
Mr. Ryan
Michigan
Hancock
Mich
Upper Peninsula
Calumet
Ryan
Denver
Rocky Mountain
Montana
Marcus Daly
Daly
Henry R. Rogers
Amalgamated Copper Company
Rogers
Augustus Heinze
Reinze
Amalgamated
John D. Ryan
Anaconda Company
Anaconda Power Company
Government seeks expert accountants with high salaries
Government advertisement calls for expert accountants qualified through Civil Service examinations with salaries from 2400 to 6000 dollars yearly. Also seeks business administration specialists, ordnance material engineers, grain supervisor, metallurgical chemist, plant physiologist assistant, telephone operator, and other roles with varied salaries.
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Civil Service Commission
New York Day by Day Diary and City Life Reflections
Special Correspondent notes a late start to the day in New York with personal diary entries about deaths and social observations. He mentions Ed Wynne the actor, Nat Goodwin’s joke, a luncheon at a modest inn, Signor Caruso visiting, and a discussion on fuel policy with Mr. Barker. The piece covers fashion trends, soft collars in society, and performances by Tyier, Ziegfeld, Cohan, and others, with notes on Hippodrome acts and organ grinders fading from streets.
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The
Dispatch
New York
Samuel Pepys
Lord Theodore
Karl Hall
Ed Wynne
Trotzky
Nat Goodwin
India
Pittsarge
Caruso
Barker
Britain and Canada train volunteers for front line service
The British and Canadian recruiting drive targets 200000 expatriates in the United States to join Allied forces. In one week over 800 men enlisted, with training at British and Canadian officer schools in Sandhurst Woolwich and various camps. Brig Gen W A White commands with key officers in New York Chicago and the Pacific Coast divisions guiding training and commissions.
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W. A. White
United States
France
Italy
Belgium
England
Lalas
Berd
Lars
Royal Military College
Sandhurst
West Point
Great Britain
Royal Military Academy
Woolwich
Canada
Royal Military
Ness
New Yor
Dennis
Chicago
S. Marz
War Ends Organ Grinder Era in Munition Plant
A terse note states organ grinders quit playing as war grows, with workers turning to munition production and powder blasts to fuel the war effort.
Steamer Wilmington Gets Stuck In Mud On River Run
The steamer Wilmington ran aground at noon Monday between the torp and Southport. After four hours in the mud and a rough experience, it was able to refloat with no major damage apart from a wrecked condition and the effects of low water on a laden vessel.
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Wilmington
Torp
Southport
Boston Fight Fans See Phoney Bout By Batinsky and Drennan
Boston spectators were shocked as Batinsky and Bill Drennan staged a staged bout. The pair had appeared in previous crackerjack bouts and were billed as top performers.
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Boston
Batinsky
Bill Drennan
Bat
Bill
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Red Guard
Kerensky
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O. C. McIntyre
West Country
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George C. Tyler
Morris Gest
Florenz Ziegfeld
George M. Cohan
Leo Ditrichstein
William Faversham
May Wirth
Giuseppe Molinari
Mulberry Bend
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Pickert
Superior Court
Alice Larking
John Larkins
Thomas Harriss
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King of Shoemakers
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