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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1929
Page
5
On With The Show opens at Capitol Theatre tonight as a Vitaphone musical comedy. The feature was filmed at Warner Brothers in Hollywood with many young actors and extras and presents 100 percent natural color talking and singing.
The Phantom Lover blends fantasy musical comedy with back stage life filmed during On With The Show directed by Alan Crosland. Cast includes Sally O Neill Arthur Lake Betty Compson William Bakewell Louise Fazenda Sam Hardy Fairbanks.
Twins Lee Moran Joe Brown and a 100 strong beauty chorus star in the church program with Grant Clark and Harry Aski writing the music and words Humphrey Perason story Robert Lord entry adopted Alan Crosland directing The event starts at 10 o clock at the United Brethren Church and is conducted by Rev George W Stover Burial will be in the cemetery at Fawcett Gap in the county
Archaic obituary notes that Archaiah T Pitcock a lifelong Kernstown resident died yesterday at the home of Brown E Jenkins Kernstown following a long illness He served as janitor at Fort Loudoun Seminary Winchester and prior to that was a farmer in the county He was in his seventy fourth year and the funeral arrangements are to be announced
W Benton Snider Jr a noted Winchester sportsman discovered a covey of partridges in his North Cameron Street yard while feeding his dogs. As he neared the kennels one bird dog appeared to be pointing the covey among bushes in the rear yard.
A brief note describes partridges seen in a town’s outlying districts. They are more commonly found in yards near rural areas and rarely appear in the city's congested sections.
Mrs. Mary Frances Lockhart Frye died of paralysis at her daughter’s home 114 Center Street Martinsburg West Virginia after a long life of church work. She was born in Light Virginia and leaves four daughters Mrs. J J Alderton Mrs M S Shade Mrs W T Mannings and Mrs Clara Doke of Studentsville Ohio one son J W Lockhart of Martinsburg and a brother J W Taylor of Light Va. Funeral services were held at the Center Street home with Rev J Kimees officiating and interment in Chestnut Grove Cemetery.
Col Charles A. Lindbergh’s plane reeled in its radio antenna at 8 a m while preparing to land at Georgetown British Guiana after arriving from Paramaribo Dutch Guiana. He hopped off the craft at 5 45 this morning. A New York songwriter recently wed wrote a wedding theme song titled I’m on the Verge of a Merge.
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