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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1934
Page
5
Federal relief officials will study documents from Dr. Sidney B. Hall on Virginia school needs before a final decision. The plan would fund an eight month term and apply to teachers with no other means of support.
Gravel Springs Grange No. 792 in Tannery Virginia held an open meeting April 11 with two plays, music, and a talk by Shenandoah County Agent G G Dickenson on Grange aims and social improvements such as rural mail service and legislative activity. The next meeting is April 25 with degrees conferred on two candidates and a program including poems, tree themes, and a discussion on the Grange's bright future. Visitors and local residents were noted in daily onlookers and family visits.
The Capitol Theatre opens Norma Shearer in Riptide for a three day run with Billy Barnes organ numbers The Evolution of the Waltz and supporting acts by Robert Montgomery and Herbert Marshall The program repeats due to strong crowd response and promises future big attractions including Little Women Puss In Boots Death Takes a Holiday Men In White and Registered Nurse.
Monogram feature Woman's Man at the Palace Theatre today for a two gay run follows a humble Hollywood girl rising to movie stardom. The cast includes John Halliday Marguerite De La Motte Wallace Ford all making screen debuts after stage fame. Also on the bill Ernest Truex in Expectant Father Movietone News and a cartoon Joe's Lunchwagon.
The Epworth Hall at the Old Folks Home will receive receipts from a comedy presented Friday by the Kerlock Street M E Church. The Epworth Hall, built six years ago by Baltimore Conference youths for 48000, is nearly paid except 1000 this year. The plot revolves around Lucille Owens with an exact double and a mix of romance and mistaken identity at the college, with Dr King and Mrs Stevens amid the complications.
A minstrel performance will open with clean humor and a full program. A short play Good Morning Judge will entertain, followed by choruses quartets and soloists. Notable performers include Paul Everly Randolph Larrick Norman Brill Charles Hammack Claude Car per Leslie Wright John Derrick and Albert Foxx with 30 to 35 in the cast.
Middletown Va April 18 interest is shown in a minstrel to be staged by the Middletown Athletic Association on April 20 and 21. In Clarke county Louisville born George Edwards, a highly respected colored citizen, died at his home last night.
The World Brothers present a grand circus with acts from cowboy stars to wild animal cages and Captain Walker with African lions. Bert Wallace trains hogs to stacks and ramps while a military band and a three ring arena wow the crowd. Circus day is a holiday in Winschester on April 20 as families rush to see the performances.
A dated public notice states that Marshall Baker Perry will not assume responsibility for debts beyond those personally contracted by him. The document carries the date 4 16 21 and asserts individual liability.
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