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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1916
Page
2
Review lauds a human and splendidly acted production with strong stage presentation. Tickets range 50 cents to $1 and go on sale Friday at Elvington's starting 9 a.m. The piece aims to draw crowds daily through the week.
Andreasippel presents The Lilac Domino at the Academy of Music with Dippel a renowned tenor in international stages. Tickets go on sale tomorrow at Elvingtons Pharmacy. matinee prices from 4 cents to 1.50 and night prices from 44 cents to 2 dollars. Also featuring Summer Nichola's The Girl He Couldn't Buy a comedy melodrama opening next Monday with a burglar ally aiding a pure hearted heroine.
The Smart Set's new musical comedy How Newton Prepared stars Whit ney and Tutt with a cast of other accomplished colored artists. The Academy of Music will host the event on Tuesday October 31. Tickets go on sale Saturday at Elvington's.
American Girl Company presents The New Boy, a two scene musical comedy melange starring Lewis and Root in their best comedy roles. Highlights include Some Girls Do and Some Girls Don't and Southern Skies with Lillian Ziegler Elsie Ziegler Scot tie Freidel. Pauline Glenmar performs a standout singing and dancing act.
The Royal presents the eleventh chapter of Gloria's Romance with Billie Burke in the lead and calls it the greatest chapter yet. Two reels of tense swift action contrast with last week's slower pace and end with disappointment it isn’t six reels. Also shown is Edison’s When Love is King featuring Carrol McComas Bigelow Cooper and Harold Meltzer in a four part romance with a final comedy touch.
Morosco Paramount screen story stars Edna Goodrich as a spiritually minded woman who seeks real love beyond royal appearances. The production mocks social sham with refined, elegant scenes and Goodrich delivers a quiet, powerful performance as the scheming society woman’s steps daughter.
A writer recalls a visit with friend Ethel who learns to weave a straw wastebasket. The scene emphasizes perseverance, noting Ethel’s determination and lack of conceit. The author concedes her own efforts and asks readers if they cultivate perseverance in daily tasks.
R A Linquist special commercial agent of the US Department of Commerce sails for the Orient to secure postwar markets for American electrical manufacturers. He plans a two year trip visiting Australia New Zealand China Japan Asiatic Russia the East Indies the Philippines India and South Africa. First Negro Woman on Police Force. Los Angeles appoints Georgia A Robinson policewoman the first colored woman in the United States in such a post. She speaks French and is studying Spanish and will inspect venues frequented by negro youths.
The United States produces as many theology and religion works annually as fiction books. The Romanian royal family consists of six children: three boys Charles Nicholas Mircea and three girls Elizabeth Marie Ileana.
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