Kentucky Belles Bring Big Musical Comedy To Royal
The Royal presents Morton's Kentucky Belles for a solid week starting this matinee. The troupe offers elaborate scenery and wardrobe with new musical comedies, eleven gifted artists, and Johnny Keenan in the lead with May Rossie. Also featured are Esmo and Tom, Morton and Rossie, Macy and Maybelle, and Tommy Mullaly with Italian songs.
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Royal
Morton
Kentucky Belles
Kentucky Belles Company
Johnny Keenan
May Rossie
Esmo
Tom
Royal Three
Tommy Mullaly
The Price She Paid Features Clara Kimball Young
Clara Kimball Young stars in The Price She Paid at the Victoria Theatre today and tomorrow. The film follows Mildred Gower from luxury to hardship as she seeks independence, learns there is no royal road to success, and finally conquers with resolve. Director Charles Giblyn brings strong costuming and a measured performance to the Selznick picture.
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Clara Kimball Young
Selznick Pictures
Victoria Theatre
David Graham Phillips
Mildred Gower
Miss Young
Charles Giblyn
Selznick Forces
Fashion Notes on Summer Wardrobes and Travel Anecdotes
A columnist muses on selecting business summer clothes balancing practicality and style. The piece contrasts lightweight dainty shades with practical greens and details a morning in New York with social sightings, encounters, and a late night return home.
War Comes to Broadway Nightlife Amid Wartime City Alarm
The piece describes a wartime shutdown of New Yorks nightlife on May 1 as crowds react to the war reaching Broadway. It notes a Florida guest with an alligator, a blind vendor named Foggy, and a chorus girl turned usher earning about 75 weekly in tips plus 12 a week salary.
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New York
Samuel Pepys
F. Kelly
Washington
Joffre
Paris
Broadway
Florida
Biltmore
Albany
Practical summer dress notes from a Victorian observer
The speaker outlines practical attire for summer business and leisure. She prefers black pumps and stockings with dark hats, dislikes white hats, and favors a coat effect dress to avoid a shirtwaist and coat combination. She notes dull brown and blue also suit medium shades and mentions lighter evening frocks for nonwork wear.
Dividend Declared on Atlantic Coast Line Preferred Stock
The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company board declares a dividend of two and one half percent on its preferred capital stock. Payment available at the Treasurer's office in Wilmington, North Carolina after May 10, 1917. Transfer books close from April 30 to May 10. James F. Post, Treasurer.
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Wilmington
N. C
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company
James F. Post
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Bohemia
Elmer
Tow
Morton and Rossie
Nancy and Maybelle
Metro Pictures Present
Supreme Streen Production
Oo. O. Mcintyre
Kelly
W. Sibley
Mistress Sibley
Gotham
Ellis
France
E. Simpson
J. Scott
Peggy Landers
V. Castle
Metropolitan
G. Brown
Miss Duncan
J. Weber
L. Fields
Concoanut Grove
Evening Mail
R. Moulton
R. Goldberg
J. Voight
Count Tolstoy
Russia
Sir Jack
Josephine LeFevre Coy
Philadelphia
Green’s Drug Store
Tomore Row
Lewis J. Selznick
Clara Kimball
Ously
Oscar P. Peck
Wood
Gts
Paolec -Lagitaveas
William J. Reaves
Robert M. Reaves
Jack’s
HE Evans Chemical CO
Cincinnati
D. M. Bain
Howard Wells Amusement CO. Inc
Maeterlinck
BON Marche
Belk-Williams CO
J. W. H. Fuchs’ Department Store
A. D. Brown
J. M. Soley & CO
Queen City Cycle CO
Hall & Ross
Bear Produce & Merchandise Company
G. W. Huggins, Inc
Peoples’ Savings Bank Jarman & Futrelle
J. O. Reilly
Sterchi-Bancroft CO
J. H. Rehder & CO
G. Dannenbaum
Boylan & Hancock
Honnet
Citizens Bank
J. G. Wright & Son
Howard-Wells Amusement CO
Murchison National Bank
D. R. Foster & CO
American Bank & Trust CO
Northam's Book & Stationery
THE
C. W. Polvogt CO
R. C. Platt
L. W. Moore
Wilmington Savings & Trust
Goodman's Ready-To-Wear
Roge Moore Sons and CO
Wilmington Printing CO
A. C. Schuster
Home Savings Bank
Tidewater Power CO
B. Cooper & CO
ORTON
C. W. Yates CO
W. Munroe & CO
J. Hicks Bunting Drug CO
Wilmington Steam Laundry
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