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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-25
HAROLD LLOYD
STRANDS STAR
Popular Comedians New
PhOtOplay Shows
All Work

Eastern critics acclaim Harold Lloyd
in Girl Shy the greatest laugh pro-
Queer ever screened and this comedy
opens at the Strand Monday for six
days. The management request all
who can to attend the matinees to avoid
the night rush. The first picture be-
gins at 10 80 am. Monday.
There are probably very few people
who have never had the privilege of
seeing Harold Lloyd in at least one of
his successful comedy hits, "Grandma's
Boy" "Dr. Jack" Safety Last" or
"Why Worry?". But still, in spite of
his world wide popularity, very few
people outside of his family know init
mately the sneetacled comedian, whose
latest feature Pathecomedy, Girl Shy"
has just been released.
Harold is a close student of human
nature and sees humor where others
see only the tragic. He is in reality a
combination of prankishness and seri-
BUSINESS. While actually at work he
is as serious as anyone could be, but the
minute that work stops he is full of
pranks.
In "Girl Shy" Lloyd is seen as a
poor, bashful tailor's apprentice in a
small country town where only three
things ever happen-morning, noon and
night. He imagines that he knows
women, although he is too abashed il
their presence to associate with them
In fact, the more he tries to study them
from affair, the more he fears them
His Characterization in this fun-film
is said to be far and away the best
and funniest thing he has ever done.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-25
ESCAPE ARTIST
ON BILIOUS BILL
"RaffIes" Act Heads New
Vaudeville And Pic
ture Program

"Raffles," the man who hangs from
high buildings and frees himself from
tight bound straight jackets, who gets
out of locked safes, though, bound and
tied within, and who is said to have
the keenest sense of touch known in
years, will be in Birmingham all of
this week, beginning Monday afternoon,
in the headline act Of the vaudeville bill
Of the week.
1t is said that there are only two
other men in the world who can dupli-
cate ''Raffle's" feat of opening safes
without having first been told the COM
bination, and "Raffles' even does it
while he turns his back to the COM
bination. Let any one try this, even
knowing their combination and see how
far they will get in the test. And
there are scores of other feats of dar-
ing and almost uncanny skill, especially
what is said to be vaudeville's most
trilling and mystifying novelty, Cheat
ing the Grave"
The weeks vaudeville bill will also
include another feature act furnished
by none other than Marie Stoddard,
the vocal gymnast," and the star of
'TThe Dancing Girl" whose songs,
smiles and impressions are declared by
critics to- furnish unusually novel en-
tertainment. Opening the bill, the three
Wheeler boys, will be seen in daring
gymnastics, while comedy and music
galore is combined in the act of Con-
nell, Leona and Zippy, and a comedy
playlet, "She Cares for Me-" by Barr,
Mayo and Rem, also furnishes an in
teresting feature of the Diversified
bill. Z
Retaining the melodramatic situa-
tons of the original stage play, first
produced in London in 1885, the Will
liam Fox screen version of "Hoodman
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-25

1t is a good policy to keep the own
ership of wives straight, because when
they get all mixed up things are likely
to happen, serious for the husbands
concerned. but ii can be might good
fun for the spectators. This will be
exemplified at the jefferson, all this
week, when the All-Star Jefferson
Players present that clean and en-
pertaining farce, Scrambled Wives"
Farce, to be amusing must move
along at rapid rate, with plenty of
crisp, sparkling lines and cleverly in
terwoven situations. This is the kind
or farce that Scrambled Wives" is,
and it has behind it a long and sue
cessful Broadway run. In choosing it
for the next production of the All:
Star Jefferson Players, the manage
ment decided that it was the sort of
high grade entertainment that met the
Jefferson standards.
The now famous trio of the ALI
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-25

her varied experience creates charac-
ter that viii long be remembered.
The Temple Symphony orchestra, with
Fred Stark, director, win accompany
the picture, appearing at, both the aft
ernoon and night performances. Mr..
Stark has spent much time in arrang-
ing the music for this picture and he
has selected as an overture for this
week Raymond" by A. Thomas. It
will be played at 3 o'clock each after
noon and at s 80 each evening.
The first of the Telephone Grip
stories. which are adaptations from II.
C. Witwer's Cosmopolitan Magazine
stories, will be offered this week and
thereafter throughout the country. 1t
is not serial, but each picture is a
separate story about the same girl.
"JuIius Sees Her" is the first picture
Temple Last Minute News and an
Aesop Fable will be the other attrac-
tions this week.
Due to the Shrine and Grotto cere-
monies the theatre will be closed all
day Wednesday and Thursday night.
Regular morning and afternoon per
formahces will be shown Thursday,
however.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-25
AT CASCADE PLUNGE

Thirty acres of beautiful woodlands,
stretching up the mountain side just
back of the Cascade Plunge dining
pavilion at Third avenue and Sixty
eighth street, south, were opened to the
public this week by the management as
free picnic grounds, where Sunday par
ties are invited to make themselves at
home.
Secluded, quiet and restful, this beau
tiful tract is an alluring spot for those
who seek the delights of the open coun-
try and who wish to go a long way
from home to find them.
With the Night Hawks orchestra
holding the boards and tuning up each
evening at 8 o'clock for the regular eve
ming dance, there is round of fun and
merriment at the popular resort until
the last soft strains of Home, Sweet
Home" float out at midnight over the
ballroom floor and across the moonlight
surface of the big swimming pool,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-25
''ScrambLed Wives" Another
Broadway Play This Week
jefferson Players Present Famous New York
Farce Comedy AS Next Offering

Star Players, Miss Kathleen Comegys
and ]. Glynn MacFarlane have the
featured roles. Miss COmegys returns
t. the stage after week of well
earned rest, and she just bubbles with
vivacity in the role of one of the wives
who are scrambled. Mr.. MacFarlane
is one of the husbands, with Russell
Fillmore as the other. AS a matter of
fact. Mr.. Fillmore is two husbands, one
active the other divorced or passive,
50 to speak.
The other members of the All-Star
company have roles that will meet with
approval. Miss Tamzon Marker, De
Forrest Dawley, A. s. Byron, Miss
Helen Ray, Miss Elaine Davies and
Peter Buffers are all well cast. Bir-
mingham will have a chance to see an
other local artist this week in Miss
Olivia O'Neal, whO has been engaged
especially for one of the important
roles in Scrambled Wives"
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Bells in the Lighthouse" bass solo, and
harmon duet, "Happy-Go Lucky"
with an illustrated number, "Since Ma
Is Playing Ma Jong." The HawthOrnes
come well recommended, and the pa
irons of the Capitol are promised a
real treat, with no extra admission
charge, each evening this week with
matinee performances on Saturday
only. x,
Wednesday and Thursday of this
week, Agnes Ayres will be seen in
"The Heart Raider" while for Friday
and Saturday, Leatrice Joy and star
cast will be shown in The Silent Part
ner.''
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-25
NUMBER TWO

He had been away for many years
working on a lonely farmstead in Aus
tralia... Therefore he was not used to
the telephone system. in fact, he had
never used one before.
Directly he landed in England he
thought it would be good idea to ring
up his wife. Entering booth, he lifted
the receiver and demanded:
II want to speak to my WIFE,"
The operators voice came sweetly
from the other end of the line.
Number, please?" she queried.
"Well," he replied, slightly puzzled,
she's my second, if you must know"
Answers, London.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-25
9 Between F friends" Picture
At Temple For This Week
Film Version OF Chambers Great Novel Feature
Photoplay

Between Friends,' a great love
story from Robert w Chambers great
novel by the same name and played by
a star cast, will be the feature attrac-
tion at the Temple theatre all this
week with the exception of all day
Wednesday and the night performance
on Thursday when the theatre will be
closed for the Shrine and Grotto cere-
monies.
This story is a gripping, thrilling
drama of mans lost love and his ven
geance, with Lou Tellegen, Norman Kerr
~, Alice Calhoun and Anna Q. Nilsson
as principals.
Lou Tellegen, who is equally as ia.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-25

Blind," also comes to LOew's Bijou all
of this week.
Cast in, the leading role first inter
preted by Wilson Barrett, eO-author Of
the play with Sir Henry Arthur Jones,
is David Butler. When the production
came to New York month after its
London opening, to play at the Wal
lacks theatre, Kyrle Bellew had the
role and Annie Robe, then a Broadway
favorite, had the part in which Gladys
Hulette appears on the screen.
The story deals with man who un-
Justly suspects his wife of infidelity,
when he sees woman whom he be
heees is she, in the arms of another
man. 4. In truth, the woman was her
half sister. Miss Hulette is said to be
particularly effective in the dual role,
as Nance Yeulette, the wife and Jess,
her half sister, tei ~ fF
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nous as an actor on the stage as a
screen star, was formerly sculptor and
in the role Of David Drene, the sculp-
tor is quite at home. The story is
woven about the problem of which is
greater, a mans love for woman or
his friendship for man? Into the
theme has been woven intense action,
a sculptor's studio, gay artists froIic
and a models life.
1t is rather surprising to see Alice
Calhoun in the role of model, and
yet it becomes her better than any
thing in which she has appeared, ac-
cording to critics. She throws herself
into the role and with the addition to
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-25
AT THE MOVIES

captolMOnday and Tuesday Colleen Moore in Painted People
Heart Friday
Saturday, Leatr in "The Silent Partner"
Tuesday William Duncan Fast Wedes
Leatherstockn Friday Saturday
DIN in he Tarzan."
Pnce-oo Gibson Shooting Love- Monday Tuesdays
William Hart in "GrOuchy Jim Atom Friday
and Saturday Edmond n "The Rodeo Mixup"
Wednesday, "The Vgnans with Ken
last half all n Enemies of Women"
Fred Thomson in North of Nevada"
Harold in "Grl Shy"
TranonN"Why Men Home" Stone
Tempe-@Between Friends" wit an-star,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-25
EXPERTS WORK

A Scotswoman once applied to a
solicitor for advice. After she has de-
tailed all the circumstances of the case,
the lawyer asked her if she had stated
the facts exactly as they had occurred.
"Ou ay, sir" she replied, II thought
it best to tell you the plain truth. You
can put the lees tilt yourself. Tat
Ter, London.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-25
COTTON PICKERS
TOP LYRIC BILL
Blackface Comedians In
Song And Dance Fea-
ture Act
JEFFERSON

This week marks the closing of some
thing that all of Birmingham enjoys,
but what Birmingham will have to do
without. 1t is big-time Keith vaude-
vile, which will close at the Lyric Sat
urday night for several weeks, to make
way for a group of musical plays which
will be presented during the summer.
The bill for the first half of this week,
which marks the close of vaudeville
temporarily at the Lyric, is a varied
one and filled with entertainment.
The headliner is '"The Cotton Pick
ers," presenting a company of artists
characterizing the real old-time darkey.
The list of players in the group include
such well known black-face stars as
Mickey and Elsie McGarry, Bert Cole
man, Walter Swartz, Walter g. Dorsey
and Peter j. Smith. This is not the
usual minstrel entertainment of
vaudeville, but grouping of songs,
dances and comedy that is different.
The added attraction brings another
echo of the south in the offering of
Madelyn Young and company, singing
southern songs. Miss Young and her
singers have developed a program of
southern melodies that is declared to
have universal appeal. 1t includes
popular numbers, classics and old-time
favorites. They are all about Dixie, too.
The special feature is some comedy.
Harry Lang and Bernice Haley provide
it in ''Who Is Your, Boss?" This is a
acomedy skit that is described as clever
and original, bright and sparkling re-
partee provided by two players who
know their stuff.
Rounding out the bill are Lalla Sell
bini and Bert Albert in 1.-The Butterfly
and the Cat" and James Carlisle and
Isabel Laurel in ''The Interview"
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AT THE THEATRES

altar in Scrambled Wives"
vaudeville lead "The Cotton Pkers;" half
Fox comedies and Pathe changed each
Rafe the master craftsman in "Cha
Blind
ing Gladys Huete.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1924-03-20
continuation de Ia pag. 81

ranfa coexistente con Ia soberan1a ma
cional que no es otra cosa que la es-
tadidad. Pero hay que lamar a ESQ
ESTADO Y no otra cosa. Y no We Ell
sefior Martinez Nadal que ell t4rnnino
ESTADO es mas ambiguo que Ell de
"Soberania dentro de la soberania de
los Estados Unidos''. Porque estado
puede ser modiflcado por el termino
asociado. Por Ell termino ultramarino,
icon protectorado" y demas terminus
que puedan salir al canine. De nada
sutil Sc ha Waldo ell sedor Presidente
del Partido Republican,. Bien pudo Ian
Ear ell senior Martinez Nadal su arenga,
como el la llama, para que todos los
hombres vieran al puesto de honor en-
La Inca de fuego. Yo no Sc que espi-
ritu de caudillo sudamericano ha ami
mado en- estos dias al senior Martinez
Nadal. Y dice Embellishments que Ell
manifesto fue un documento para pue
bio mas que un manifesto politico. Es-
to es tan demasiado obscure exoteri-
CO. ICual es la diferencia, senior Mar
tinez Nadal, entire un documento para
Ell pueblo y un manifesto politico? Las
ideas socialistas han lido demasiado le-
jos en- Ell alma agraviada Y que no OIL
vida, del sefior Martinez Nadal su
editorial primero es un cilmulo de con-
tradicciones. De argumentos tan vacios
de orientaci6n, que no parece salido de
la pluma del sefior Martinez Nadal En-
los primeros p&rrafos del mismo mai
trata al seior Tous Soto. Que hizo mai
uso de los poderes que el pueblo lie
otorgo. Que ha torcido la voluntad de
esos poderes favor de intereses deter
minadas opuestos al partido. X. Que
es un falaz. Un fabricador de absurdi-
dades. Que NAL interpret6 la condicion
del Partido Republican, y su nivel Gull
tural. Y despues, en- un parrafo faman-
to 10 llama MAESTRO. Aleccionador
del Pa-tido Republican, por muchos
amos. Y aIeccionador de tan buenas lee
clones que nrnca ell partido ha pcdtdo
olvidarlas. Pero no obstante, le llama
otra vez al manifesto "conteutivo de
perfido argumento" Y habla Ge coac-
cion por hambre y que debemos 1ennn-
ciar al estado a la independence. Es-
tie editorial de mi viejo Y buen amigo
me inclina veces pensar de 81 esta
hablando en- serio en- bachata a la
manera de Las tertulias de la mayor
quina''. Porque un hombre de taiento
como Ell se1or Martinez Nadal 10 po-
dria escribir un editorial tan hueco
sino desde Ell punto de vista de una
reunion de cafe sin importancia tras-
cendental Y ataca Ell argumento econo
mico del sefior Tous Soto con respecto
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1924-03-20
YO CONTESTO

la estadidad diciendo, y este parece
que 10 dice desde una tribuna socialis-
ia, que todo Sc puede arreglar impo-
niendo mas contribuciones los propie-
tarios. iCaramba! No saba que Mart1-
nez Nadal era mas socialista que Igle-
sias. 81 tuviera, aunque fuera como yo,
una casita de concrete, PALACETE
que diria Ell prosopopeyico Becerril, es-
toy seguro que per, ninguna de las
ventanas de su mentalidad Sc hubiese
asomado este argumento. Tomen nota
los propietarios de Puerto Rico. Los
grandes y los peQuehos, de la amenaza
que envuelve el argumento del senior
Martinez Nadal. Es la muerte del ca
pital grande y peQuefo por las tortu-
ras de la imposition de contribuc1ones,
irraciona1es v .exhorbitantes. Y cando-
rosamente dice que debido que los
propietarios actualmente, para los fines
de la amortization de los emprestitos
que existen, estan pagando una alta
contribution, por este hecho, como d1Jo
en- su fatal discurso del Comite Terri
torial de Cayey, con este aparejo en-
Gina durante treinta amos no protesta-
ran de que le Quitemos Ell sudor de su
frente. Argumento es este de un gran
economtsta. Smith v eide Sc quedan
asombrados de la genialidad de esta
nueva orientacion economical. Estoy Sc
guro que nj Santiago Iglesias, que pa
rece ser nenos radical que ell senior Mar
tinez Nadal, Sc hubiese .atrevido Ian
zar a los vientos un argumento tan
nifio. Tan candoroso. Tan pobre. Y ha-
bla en- su mismo editorial de leyes fe-
derales, sobre agricultural. Sobre- cam1-
nos rurales. Sobre maternidad. Sobre
escuela vocational No afirmando que
ahora nosotros no gastamos un centavo
en- estas cuestiones y desde luego en- eI
porvenir tales problemas no inclinarian
En forma alguna la balanza economical
en- los gastos de Puerto Rico. Pero hay
algo mas. Anuncia en- su editorial nue.
vas contribuciones sobre las industrias
insulares. ICuales industrias, sefior Mar
tinez Nadal?..
Ell ameritado editorial que estamos
contestando es un trasunto fiel del dis
curse pronunciado por. el senador por
Ponce en- la reunion del Comite Te-
rritorial celebrada en- Cayey. Y en- tai
reunion como en- las columnas de su
peri6dico lei GlObo''', sus argumentos
no me convencen y seguramente no
han de convencer a sningun elemento
pensante de Puerto Rico. ~
Hasta Ell pr6ximo, mi ,,buen amigo
Martinez Nadal. bs
J. valldejuli RODRIGUEZ.
Evening star., 1924-06-12

avenue. Both the bride and BRIDE
groom are general favorites here. Mr..
Reeley is company clerk of Company
National Guard. His bride is form
erly OF Butler, Tenn.
Miss Eleanor Catherine Judd was
hostess Wednesday at a linen shower
bridge for Miss AiIeen Rector. seaton
place northeast, whose marriage To
Mr.. Donald o. Wolf will take place
the twenty-fifth OF this month. The
guests included Miss Agnes Goodlow.
the mad ms. OF t,c honGr Mss May
beth Hobbs. Miss Dorothy Overstreet.
Misses Elizabeth and Joeephins
Ramage. Misses Dorothea and Viz
ginia Storck, Miss Mary Louise
Chace. Miss Helen Newton and Mas
Dorothy Jackson OF Minneapolis,
Mimi.
Miss Erma Musstna and Mics ee'
nita Stombock were hoHtesses al q
shower. ,entertain,ng in eennl'msn.
to. Miss Dorothy knotte, whose mar
riage to Mr.. Edwin Faerber ,s to tshe
place June II. The guests Included
were members OF the Delta t'haftet
Of Tau Phi Sorority, OF which Miss
Knots is a member, -,
On May % the Balleneee clsss ~
Calvary Methodist Church surrtisea
Miss Knots with a shower AT her
home, in Cleveland Park.
Mr.. Benjamin A. Simpson announces
the marriage of his niece, Miss Mar
garet Ann Mccarthy, and Dr. Francis
L. MarSden, which was quietly arl
emnized yesterday mernins IN ~,
Dominics Church, 9Th and h atfeetn
southwest. The Rev. w. q, Srehl"n,
O. p, pastor OF the church, performep
the ceremony, followed Nv nuptial
mass. Mrs. II n Simpson attended
the bride and Mr.. Thomas j. Mars. 7.
den. brother Of DIR Marpden, waa hee'
man
Owins to the recent death ot the
brides mother the wedding wan at
tended only by the Immediate rp'a'
tives OF the couple, A breakfast inl
lowed the ceremony, after wh'ch Vt
and Mrs. Marsden left for New YORK
4 very pretty wedding took place
at the home OF Mr and Mrs, john !.
Fletcher. Blair road. rakoma fark
Tuesday night, where their daushter
Grace Lucille, and Mr.. William san
ford Herndon werc married by thr
Rev William Earle la Rue. assisted
by the Rev, j. J. Muir.
The house was decorated In snti'iS
palms, pink and white flowers
The brides gown was of white lace
with train and she wore q ven ahu
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lilies OF the valley. Miss Esther evans
was maid of honor and wore ecru lace
over peach silk. carrying tea roses
Miss Gertrude Dyre played the wed
ding march and Mrs. Gertrude Price
sang AT DawninE'
Mr.. Herndon was attended by Mr..
J. Raymond Fletcher. brother OF the
bride.
A reception followed. attended by
about zoe guests. Among the mouse
guests are Mrs. Charles 7. Wtlber and
daughter. Iva. formerly of Washing
ton. now of East Orange, y. J. MIS-
Herndon will attend Miss WILDER as
matron of honor in September. Many
out -of-town guests attended the wed
ding, among whom were Mr.. and Mrs.
f. II Fields. Mrs. II. Is. Thorne,
grandmother of the bride: Mr.. and
Mrs. Jess IL. Smith and son OF De
troit. Mich: Mr.. and Mrs. W. NJ. Car
ter. Mr. and Mrs. William Crowl, Miss
Anna Gill and Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert
Clough OF Baltimore, Md.
The marriage of Miss Anna Bick-
nell, daughter of Mrs. Lucy r. Bick.
nell Of Malone, n. Y. and Mr.. Howard
Barrett Richardson, son of Mrs. Anna