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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1917
Page
6
La Salle Company presents Step Lively at Empire tonight at 8 30. Tickets range from 26c to 1 00. The comedy and songs are fast paced with two new numbers Bouncing at the Rubber Ball and Walkin the Dog. Some choice seats remain.
The article profiles Harley Gano as a refined minstrel and principal comedian with J A Coburn's Greatereens. It notes his gentlemanly demeanor offstage, praises his performances in Millionaire Hunt Club in India and the big finale Darktown's Readiness Recruits, and invites attendance at the Empire next Wednesday April 4.
A crowded house witnessed the Keith vaudeville at the Empire Theater last night and praised it as the best here in a long time. Acts included Edyth Van Dyck and Brother Winkell Children and Jack Polk with singing, dancing, and comic bits. The Winkell Children impressed with juvenile grace. Polk provided clever humor. the Van Dycks offered classical and popular music. Tomorrow the vets return for matinee and night shows.
A vintage ad declares Pape’s Diapepsin relieves sour stomach in five minutes with no indigestion gas or dizziness. It touts speed, safety, and worldwide use, urging readers to keep a fifty cent case at home for daytime or night relief from dyspepsia gastritis and fermenting stomachs.
The message outlines that Congress is the only body constitutionally empowered to handle the situation and assigns the next move to the executive branch. Mrs. Louie A. Quantz of Chambersville returns from a several day visit with friends in Washington.
The comedy with music at the Empire features a ludicrous plot and scintillating tunes. A dozen popular songs are added, making a well seasoned, broadly favored show. Curtain at 8:30.
Dorothy Gish headlines The Little School Ma am at Empire Tomorrow playing a Southern teacher in a small Northern village. The plot follows her as scandal threatens her job and reputation, then romance with a visiting playwright resolves with marriage and bright outcomes.
In Richmond Virginia on March 30 members formed the Colored Citizens Patriotic League to mobilize African Americans in support of national defense and to urge them to stay at home and remain at work across Virginia District of Columbia Maryland Pennsylvania New Jersey and North Carolina.
Examination of applicants of teachers certificates will be held at Court House Hall Winchester Virginia on Thursday Friday and Saturday April 12 13 14 starting promptly at nine o clock Maurice M Lynch Supt of Schools provides notice from 26 1p 21 4ptf.
Mr and Mrs Alexander Jolliffe report grateful thanks for help from friends after their home and nearby property were burned in an early morning fire. Two sick children removed from the burned house show improvement. corn loss corrected to 70 barrels from 70 bushels.
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