Nat Ferber at the Royal This Week
The Royal offers Nat Ferber and his American Beauty musical comedy company for the week starting Monday. The show features The Siamese Twins farce with lavish scenery and wardrobe from Broadway success. Special diversions include Barkham and Barkham dancing acts Hillary and Schrall in black and white and Yvonne La Grange with modern society dances.
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Royal
Nat Ferber
Giamese Twins
Barkham
Hillary and
Schrall
Yvonne la Grange
Magda at the Grand Theatre in a screen version
The Grand presents the screen adaptation of Magda by Herman Sudermann on Monday and Tuesday directed by Emile Chautard with Jacques Vizeul as photographer. Clara Kimball Young stars in the title role alongside a renowned producing company, promising a high achievement in cinema.
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Magda
Herman Sudermann
Emile Chautard
Jacques Vizeul
Fine Arts Ministry
Clara Kimball Young
Daly's Theatre
London
Sarah
Bernhardt
Miss Young
Madame Bernhardt
Duse
A Square Deal at the Grand Delivers Satire of Bohemian Imitation
Margarita Fisher stars in a photo drama showing a wife who abandons home for an art colony and a self styled disinterested visionary. Peyton Lemoyne provokes a break with her husband before a sober awakening returns her to domestic life. Jack Mower supports in the husband role as the cast earns praise.
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Margarita Fisher
Alice Gilson
Miss Fisher
Peyton Lemoyne
Jack Mower
American Buds at Grand theatre features Fox drama
The American Buds romance stars Jane and Katherine Lee, known as the Fox Baby Grands, with Jane Lee thwarting a German spy plot. The program Wednesday at the Grand theatre will showcase the drama after their earlier appearance in Two Little Imps.
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William Fox
Jane
Katherine Lee
Grand Theatre
Lee
Fox
Troublemakers in American Buds Play Spark Plot and Pranks
The scenes at an orphanage and an army camp feature orphans who stir trouble, focusing on their parentage. Jane and Katherine lead pranks while a strong plot drives the production through its dramatic phases.
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Jane
Katherine
Visitation of City by Shipping Officials in Wilmington
Busy days in Wilmington as shipping board and emergency fleet officials visit to review big government shipbuilding projects. H C Kendall, engineer, meets with local leaders to discuss passenger transport and housing. General Donnelly reportedly resigns after army charges, claiming he only drank once.
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Wilmington
Shipping Board
Emergency Fleet Corporation
H. C. Kendall
Wan
Arthur G. Donnelly
Army
Donnelly
Tidewater Power official surveys nearby worksite and housing
Raymond Hunt of Tidewater Power visits the scene to inspect transportation of workers and proximity of houses to the traction line and shipyards. Mr Kendall will stay in Wilmington tomorrow to continue investigations into these concerns.
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Raymond Hunt
Tidewater Power Company
Tidewater
Mr. Kendall
Wilmington
Supreme Court upholds bone dry law in SD
In South Dakota the supreme court affirms the dry law. Meanwhile Hamilton County Tennessee eliminates two workhouses for lack of prisoners citing Prohibition as supporting reason. In Birmingham Alabama only about 50 people are jailed with half not city offenders.
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South Dakota Supreme Court
Hamilton County
Tennessee
Birmingham
Ala
Complaints Filed in Hilton Damage Suit Over Injuries
Two damages suits filed against Hilton Compress and Warehouse Co seek 50 000 for LeRoy Sellers injuries from a pistol discharge. One suit by LeRoy Sellers a minor via M F Sellers for 40 000, another by M F Sellers and wife for 10 000. Plaintiffs allege the employer supplied a faulty pistol and cartridges to a minor watchman allowed visitors on Sunday, causing a bullet injury that left LeRoy forever incapacitated and a burden on his parents.
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Hilton Compress and Warehouse Company
Sellers
LeRoy Sellers
M. F. Sellers
J. Fred Bailey
Hilton Compress
City School Committees Elect Chairs at City Board Meeting
The city school committees held Friday night elections with C. W. Worth chosen chairman of district 7 and W. E. Perdew selected chairman of district 2. Henry Bear named secretary as committees list districts 1 through 5 with respective chairs and members.
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Board of Education
C. W. Worth
Woorus ‘Ellim
W. E. Perdew
Henry Bear
Tese
Hemenway and
Peabody
R .A. Parsley Woodus Kellum
Union
Williston
E. A. Metts
C. van Leuven
J. F. Mann
Isaac Bear
Dr. J.A. Smith
George H .Heyer
J. A. Milroney
Cornelius Harnett
R. C. Cantwell
S. A. Matthews
John Thomas
William Hooper
Sunset Park
Funeral Services for Mrs Lena Reaves Held Today
Funeral services for 29 year old Lena King Reaves wife of Robert M Reaves were held this morning at 11 oclock from the Fourth Street Advent Christian church with Rev J T Johnson officiating Interment followed at Belle Vue cemetery She had been in declining health for some time and had just returned from the western part of the state Mrs Reaves survived by her husband five children John B King and Mrs James E Sharpe and Mrs Hattie Lavergne and Mrs Annie Mosley also her brother and three sisters She was an Advent Christian church member and beloved by many in the community.
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Reaves
Vera
May
Mildred
Billen
Robert, Jr
Clifford
John B. King
James E. Sharpe
Hattie Lavergne
Annie Mosley
Charleston
Advent Christian Church
Ill Wind Blows Votes to Women
The National American Woman Suffrage Association reports that since 1915 suffrage has been granted in Great Britain New York State British Columbia Manitoba Alberta Saskatchewan Ontario Denmark and partial suffrage in several U S states Texas Michigan Arkansas Nebraska Rhode Island Vermont and North Dakota. Russian women are not included in the total.
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Washington
National American
Woman Suffrage Association
Great Britain
New York State
British Columbia
Manitoba
Alberta
Can
Saskatchewan
Ontario
Den
Mark
Texas
Michigan
Arkansas
Nebraska
Rhode Island
Vermont
North Dakota
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the Royal
Motion Pictures
Little Mary McAllister
Glacier National Park
CLARA _ KIMBALL
the Grand
Herman Suderman
Hillary and Schrall
Yeager and
Ramsey
Yvonne LaGrange
Oxford
Brockton, Mass
Brockton
F.K. J. Fuchs & Co
S. Front ST
Herman Su
Bernhardt and
Preme
Thos
Filme
Empire
New York
Wilmington, N. C
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