davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
, 1923-04-27

earliest possible date The suggestion
was made last night that enough.mem-
bers would be willing TO pay their
memberships in a lump sum to fl
nance clubhouse construction. AT
present there is a five-room house on
the place that can be adapted to the
, 1923-04-27

needs OF the caretaker and could be
used next year by the members until
a moro elaborate structure Is com
pleted.
The county commissioners in tour
ing over the place to the club have
given assurance that during their
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creek road. tho now country club VIII
afford q background for one Of the
most beautiful drives In the county.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-25
GLORIA SWANSON COMING 'TO q RAND FUR ENTIRE WEEK
American Wife," One of First Productions Entirely Concerned With Buenos
 Aires

Motion picture fans believe that when a new Gloria Swanson picture is announced they are going to see the unusual in the way of magnifi-
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cent settings. beautiful gowns and a story that is teeming with drama. This is said to be especially true of Miss Swanson's latest feature, My American Wife, the attraction at the Strand all this week, beginning Mon day.
 Miss Swanson. was never more glorious than as Natalie Chester. an American girl who owns a racing stable. 1t is said. My American Wife" written especially for her, a critic says, she was never seen to better advantage. Her role affords abundant opportunities for wonderful characterization and the display of gowns of such gorgeousness that they will create a sensation among the women devotees of the motion picture. it is claimed.
 The locale of the story is said to provide an unsual background. Most of the scenes are laid in Buenos Aires. My American Wife" is prac- tically the first screen production
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-25
THE ANNIVERSARY
THE SAPPHIRE
 WEDDING


 For the sapphire wedding a sim pie decoration would be q flower re- ceptacle filled with bachelor buttons as a centerpiece and two or three candle holders in the sapphire toned ware at each side midway between center and end of table. Place the candles in groups and connect with ribbons, tying a bow at top of each holder.
 A bIuebird decorative scheme would convey a twofold uggestion-the sapphire color and happiness. A blue bird can easily be constructed of cardboard and crepe paper, and if suspended from a tripod made of cardboard and wire and a large bow of sapphire ribbon tied on top you will have a centerpiece strikingly suggestive of the occasion. Directions for making this centerpiece will be given gratis where materials are pur- chased.
 Bluebirds can be cut from the dec orative crepe papers and two pasted together with layer of cotton be- tween. Circular, irregular or bar swings can be-made of wire wound with crepe paper and the birds perched on these. They will make at tractive suspended decorations A bluebird mounted on a spiral of cov- cred wire and attached to flat coiled card. These birds can also be att tached to the ice cups and bonbon holders.
 If a floral decorative scheme is preferred there are branches of lark spur among the artificial offerings besides the corn flowers. Blue bells can be made of crepe paper.
 There are lead pencils with sap phire colored handles, penholders and quill pens, also cigarette holders, any of which would make a pleasing favor with a small spiral of wire so that the flower is raised. This will work in effectively with the table decorations. If the bluebirds are used place the favors in the birds beak.
 Among the cloisonne articles are suggestions for sapphire wedding favors and small gifts. The butterfly mounted pendants in blue are par ticularly good.
 Napkins in bluebird design, also uses These would look well In com bination with sapphire paper fes- toons.
 A jewel cabinet in sapphire glass or leather is gift suggestion. and 45 crisp dollar bills would probably make acceptable contents. A sapphire colored handbag or purse is another appropriate medium for the cash gift.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-25
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entirely concerned with the people, architecture. customs and traditions of that city and for this reason will doubtless prove unique revelation of an interesting. virgin locale.
 The picture is a romance, the prin- cipal characters being a young Ar genuine politician and sportsman, and an American girl with whom he falls in love. Scenes are shown in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies, in low class cafe-dive. in an aristro- cratic, yet Bohemian studio party, and in one of the historic old estan- cias or haciendas of the artistocratfc La Tassa family. Other coloroful scenes show the HiDpodrome, the race track at Buenos Aires, and one of the big racing events staged thereon. Antonio Moreno, popular actor, and a suitable Argentine type, plays the leading role opposite Miss Swan son-that of Manuel La Tassa, the young politician and sportsman. Others in the cast are Josef Swickard,
 Eric Mayne. Geno Dorado, Edythe
 Chapman Eileen Pringle. Lolal Un- derwood, Walter Long, F. R. Butler and Jacques D'Auray.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-25
PETER B. KYNE's STORY TO BE THE TRIANON FILM THIS WEEK

A story of two married couples. in contrasting stations of life, whose marriages are threatened with ship wreck due to the wifes desire to avoid the responsibilities of life and have a good time. . is told with in Brothers Under the Skin," an excel lent picture by Peter B. Kyne. which comes to the Trianan this week be- gining Monday.
 Starting with an interesting situa- tion, Author Kyne and Director l.. Mason Hopper have developed it with feeling for yeracity, >for drama and for true comedy that makes Brothers Under the Skin q moving and entertaining transcrir. of life as 1t is often lived by the married, it is claimed. The poor shipping clerk in plumbing es- tablishment is having the same sort of trouble with his irresponsible wife as is the vice president of his com pany. The shipping clerk, obtaining entrance to the wealthy vice presi-
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Can you imagine anything finer than a jaunt of that kind? We will head a party from here to the Orient and sail on and on. New York finally then down the Gulf of Mexico and home by the Panama Canal. We will have about fifty of our friends as guests-Let's hope we are all on speaking terms when we get home again.,
 Douglas would like to go as soon as we each finish one more picture, but l say no. Our public and our re- lease obligations must be considered The theatre owners have their rights too, you know.
 "So we've decfded that when we both get two pictures ahead we can have our trip. That will take us well into the fall, and by the end of Sep tember Charlie Chaplin will have a as well as the feature he is now di- recting with Edna Purviance as a star. Then we can all go."
 l was curious about the rumors that Lubitsch would not remain on the Pickford lot. Gossip is always plentiful in Hollywood, and gossip has been to the effect that ,Lubitsch with his decisive ways and his habit or making SldrS rather than meetln g half way the wishes of stars, already world renowned, had found Mary Pickford too unyielding or had him- self not been yielding enough to suit her wishes.
 MT. Lubitsch stays as my director, of course," she said. You have no idea what power, what depth, what directness he has. In every way he ie. ;s.tx t+l a luxury after all these years of worrying about things, both great and small, to resign myself to his hands. Now I may be permitted to act--to become an actress at last in stead of d personality. The. public is apt to put an actress into certain niche and try to make her stay there. With MT. Lubitsch's help, though, l hope to emerge from my niche step by step, and finally do the kind of things I most want to do." But just what kind of things she meant she would not specify.
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dents home on an errand, sees him get the better of his wife (partly as a result of the timely presence of the clerk) and he goes home and does likewise with his helpmate. He proves to her that he means to be master and dictate affairs in his own household. The result is two wives sharing in their husbands lives and l. ia their babies.
 A remarkably fine cast is pre- scented, the shipping clerk and his wife being played by Pat O'Malley and Helene Chadwick; the vice presi- dent and his wife by Norman Kerry and Claire Windsor; with Mae Busch as an apattment house di- vorcee thrown in for good measure. Brothers Under the Skin" is said to be a genuine screen comedy with an appealing leaven of drama in it's composition; and, so human and yer acious that the spectator feels he knows intimately each character re- fealed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-25

Copyright, 1923, by North Ameri-
 can Newspaper Alliance for The
 AgeHerald.)
 LOS ANGELES, Cal, Feb. 24- Charles Ray, after spending nearly s100,000 on a reconstruction to scale Of the Mayflower for his production of "The Courtship of Miles Stan dish" is now ready to lead a move ment in favor of greater simplicity of settings for picture plays. But Mir. Rays rebellion against costly and complicated sets is inspired not by financia! put artistic motives.
 q find myself in syppathy with the man who would not go to see Belasco's production of The Mer- chant Of Venice because of the pub licity given to the fact that for months Belasco had experts in Ven ice copying carvings, furniture, dec orations and costumes preserved in museums says Mir. Ray. "'All of this for a play of Shakespeare, who was himself never more than 20U miles from London the man ex- claimed.''
 Seriously though" the young star continued when I=talked with him at his lot at Hollywood, "the films are becoming somewhat like dinner party at which you can not see or find the food because of the lavish decorations. can name for you many sets so lavish that the play goer scarcely notes the characters as they come and go; sets so crowded or so beautiful that one loses track ot the plot because of being intrigued by the appeal to the eye. -
 Tt is all very well to say that the motion picture is a visual art, but motion pictures are or should be plays first of all. They should be dramas, not stories, and when the scenes you see detract from the drama something is seriously wrong.
 T have no patience with the type of critic who devotes a paragraph to showing that a given scene was made beautiful by having beam of light come from some place from which in stark reality no light would come. If realism has such grip on us that we must sacrifice beauty to it, we should quit. If I can get fine effect by back or floor lighting, I'll use it and the public will approve my effect. What I quarrel with is the growing tendency to make sets so lavish that the effect is no longer dramatic but almost solely pictorial
 This situation makes me believe that the time is ripe for an innova- tion, and when my next picture after
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-25
ALCAZAR HAS DOUBLE SHOW { AS OFFERING ALL THIS WEEK

For those who want 8 sure-fire recipe for the blues, The Way of a Maid,'' starring Elaine 1ammerstein, will provide it for five more days at the Alcazar theatre, where this de- lightfui light comedy drama opened Saturday, 1t is claimed. In the cap tivating role of Nadia Castleton. or phan and society heiress, Miss Ham merstein is said to have added an other success to her list of Selznick characterizations. In none of her former achievements has she estab- lished herself more completely in the hearts of her followers than she did last evening. Nadia Castleton gives her ample opportunity to run the whole emotional scale and Miss Ham merstein is reported as having inn proved the opportunity.
 Nadia Castleton returns from fancy dress ball attired in her cos tune of parlor maid. Seen thus in the outer hall Of the apartment by Tom Lawlor, Nadia is ordered to fetch a supply of bath towels. Seized by the humor of the reqcest, Nadia plays the part and provides the tow els. One thing follows another, until
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young Lawlor, pursuing his affair with the pretty maid, finds himself completely in love with her.
 Niles Weleh plays the part of Tom Lawlor and other actors in support of the star are Diana Allen, Arthur Housman, Charles Brown, Helen Lindroth, Arthur Donaldson, William Eville, and George Fawcett. Will liam r. 5. Earle directed the picture.
 In addition to the main feature this week, the Alcazar offers Bus ter Keaton two-reel scream above sthe average comedy offering, and che Which certainly made a hit at the opening Saturday. The High Sign" with Buster Keaton. is said to be just as about the funnest and best he ever made. This being known as "Felix Cat" week, the man. agement is giving to every boy and girl a tree photo of Felix Cat. Messrs. Hamrick and Taylor have arranged 2 musical menu which fits the pie ture program. Taken as a whole, the double bin offered this week is said to leave nothing undesired in the way of motion picture entertain ment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-25
POPULARITY,

From the Richmond Times Dispatch.
 Senator Sorghum shouted from the stump:
 What we need in this country ia more confidence, men"
 The Bingville BugIe printed 1t without the comma after the word confidence" and when the staunch and sturdy party ranks read it, the senator was reelected by an over whelming majority.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-25
RED PEPPER HEAT
 ENDS RHEUMATISM

Red Pepper Rub takes the ouch" from sore, stiff. aching joints. It can rot hurt you, and 1t certainly stops that old rheumatism torture at once.
 When you are suffering so you can hardly get around, just try Red Pepper Rub and you will have the quickest relief known. Nothing has such concentrated. penetrating heat as red peppers. Just as soon as you apply Red Pepper Rub you will feel the tingiing heat. In three min rtes it warns the sore spot through and through. Pain and soreness are gone.
 Ask any good druggist for a jar of Rowles Red Pepper Rub Be sure to get the genuine with the name Rowles on each package.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-25
.CHAMLEE
 VISIONS OF RECORDING
 SPAIN IN
 "LOLITA"

Spain is long way off. yet vis- ions of it's sunny skies may be awak- ened through listening to the Span ish serenade, Lolita" which Mario Chamlee has recorded for one of the latest photograph discs issued, 1t is said. On the reverse side is Leon- cavallos 'Mattinata," typically Ital- ian and suggesting the warmth which large part of this country is not at present experiencing.
 Another music artist recently mak- ing two records is loser Holman. Liszt's celebrated second Hungarian rhapsody is the composition this popular pianist has put into perma- ment form. Florence Easton, prima donna soprano of New York's Met ropolitan Opera house and associate of Chamlee. has also contributed two appealing Spanish numbers in ar- engagements by Frank La Forge.
 Equally interesting, though differ-' ent, are the records made by Sigrid Onegin, whose contralto voice is now being discussed by every music enthusiast. They are two of the best known contralto airs of "I1 Trova- tore"
 Then in this list of photograph discs are duets, Alice, Where Art Thou" and "Oh! That We Two Were Maying of Marie Tiffany, Metropolitan opera soprano, and Theo Karle, the American tenor.
 The Capitol Grand orchestra has performed for pfonograph audiences the Intermezzos from "Cavalleria Rustieana" and In a Monastery Gar den," orchestra concert pieces all ways welcome. Among other selec- tions are the cornet solos played by Herbert L. Clarke, Carnival of Venice" and stars in Velvety Sky" and Fredric Fradkin's violin numbers, My Buddy and "A Kiss in the Dark"
 For lovers of popular music. Margaret Young offers Whoa, Tillie. Take Your Time" and Don't Think You'll Be Missed" Isham Jones and his orchestra reproduces Think of Me" and "Play the Funny Blues," while Bennie Krueger's dance orchestra presents "Open Your Arms My Ala bamy'' and Nothing But" St. Pat ricks Day is coming and Joseph c. with double disc medley of Irish Waltzes. "Crinoline Days" and Away Down East in Mane," by Ar mold Johnson and his orchestra, is another double feature for dance lovers. Marion Harris fans may revel in Rose of the Ric Grande" and T Gave You Up Just Before You Threw Me Down." Lastly, as the minister says, comes Gene Rodemich s or chestra with Teddy Bear Blues. Fate" Three Little Words" and "Flower of Araby."
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pictures are made. The scenario was written by Frank Condon.
 O O O
 To Fight Drug Evil
 Mrs. Wallace Reids plan to make an anti-narcotic drug film play the entire proceeds of which are to go to found dope cure sanitarium here as a memorial to her late husband, is meeting with widespread support. The anti-narcotic league has just been organized here and includes in it's membership federal judges, uni- versity presidents, mayors, chiefs of police, ministers of all demonina- tions. presidents of state federations of women's clubs and others of equal importance.
 PicEfOrd-Fairbanlxs Plans.
 I'm not an actress. I'm just a per- sonality--a sort of an institution. That's all the public will let me be- This was the plaint Mary Pickford made to me today during the lunch hour I spent with her in her bunga- low on the -Pickford lot in Hollywood. We sat on either side of the fireplace in the large pastel tinted living room and the heat from the large oak log was comfortable, for the gusty wind that came in from tie IdclllC WdS cOlu, anu tue Sun- shine which alternated with showers every ha1f-hour was bright but lack ing in warmth.
 It was while we sat there talking that Miss Pickford admitted for the first time that the plans for filming Faust" have been abandoned. There she made her first announcement for publication that Ernest Lubsitch will remain permanently ~as her director. She also touched frankly on the plans which she and Doug have for the next year and half, and on Charlie Chaplin's plans. tSo.A
 'The transcript as MT. Lubsitch and Edward Knoblach worked it out was wonderful. simple and moving and strong" she said. with a wistful look in her face. But Marguerite is too different from the kind of parts I've been doing for so long. The break from the girllsh roles must come graduallyA-just as Douglas broke
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-25
APPROPRIATE.

From the Kansas City Journal
 ''Why did they select the stork to couple with the doctor? Why not the eagle or the owl?
 '''rhe stork is the bird with the biggest bill.'
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-27
THE COUNTRY HOME
BY MRS w FL FELTON,

given primary instruction, and when 1 tell
you that some of the best work and most
remarkable of the many Berry buildings will
be erected over there, you will understand
the very astonishing progress Of those pupils
who are erecting these buildings, because
they are of the very substantial and endur-
ing kind. The walls are built of stone, and
the stones are collected on the hills which
cover the rear acres of this great plant [
saw two buildings that would be remarkable
anywhere in Georgia and the southern states.
One was 219 feet long and IS feet wide at
the broadest part. The other is nearly 200
feet long. 1 have forgotten it's exact width.
Over there I saw lakes, for they have running
water to make lakes, splendid spring which
has been flowing since the Indians were re-
moved in 1888. There are pastures, holding
magnificent Angora goats; also poultry Sec
tions with large white thoroughbred turkeys;
also peacocks and guineas, along with chick
ems and maybe ducks. The farming opera
tions are thorough. Big tractors were busy
turning the fields On that bright autumn day.
The cotton planted in 1923 will yield bale
per acre The corn crop is grand. These
school boys make several more bushels per
acre than the brag farmers Of Floyd county
1t is the practical success of the movement
that appeals to the visitor. They learn from
books, of course, but their willing hands are
instructed to do things which be of practical
value all their lives. The dairy work is fine,
and when you recall the fact that there are
between six and seven hundred people to be
fed three times day in those dormitories
and dining halls, you will understand the
magnitude of the undertaking, which makes
these pupils comfortable and contented and
eager to learn from the capable staff of in
structors, selected by Miss Berry to carry out
plans and purposes.
But to me the intense charm Of the place
was Miss Matte Berry. Her fortitude has
been equal to her perseverance, and both
have no superior, no equal, in Georgia, as
study her unique career as philanthropist
and also as business woman This brave
woman could easily have applied herself to
many attractive and successful careers. She
could have travelled in this country and for
eign countries with a trifle of fatigue COM
pared to the founding and carrying on of her
present undertaking. She has won the
plaudits Of excellent judges of character in
many states of this union-and when I re-
member the wasteful extravaganza of our
nous outlay on agricultural schools and col
leges, conducted under state authority, [
would if I were a member of the present
legislature, offer a resolution to transport
the entire general assembly to the Berry
schools, near Rome, Ca, to open their eyes
as to what has been done there without
dollar of state money, and to thus compel
that body Of solons to reorganize the state
schools according TO good business methods
and plain common sense. I now vote to
raise a monument to the greatest woman in
Georgia-Martha Berry!