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The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-11-27
Chapel Hill Chaf

ran across J. B. Oldham of
Chatham county in Eubanks'
drug store Saturday. Mr.. Old
ham. is the man who was re-
corded in a University alumni
bulletin as having been killed in
the war, and his name was read
out among the war dead at one
or two Armistice Day .celebra-
tions. The way it happened was
that he was felled by a German
bullet between Cambria and St.
Quentin as the '30th Division
started in on their attack on
the Hindenburg Line. One of
his companions saw him fall
and did not see him again since
Mr.. Oldham was promptly sent
back to a hospital and thence on
to England and America. The
companion wrote home that he
was killed, and even Mr.. Old
hams appearance in the flesh
failed to down the report.
y
Edward M. Knox is, it . ap-
pears, not only town manager
but a shrewd domestic manager
as we'll. His visit to the city
managers national convention in
Michigan was timed nicely to
coincide with the week when he
was to move into his new house
in Glandon Forest. So, when
he returned, he found all the
furniture, wall pictures, and
kitchen equipment in place. That
is to say, Mrs. Knox had done
the job, and all the lord of the
manor had to do was to sit Down
in the armchair and stretch
his legs toward the fire.
+
Last week, reminding O. Max
Gardner that a mans chance of
becoming President of the Unit
ed States was much better if
he had two names and not three,
l cited the case of Woodrow Will
son, who dropped the first name
of Thomas early in his career,
and | said l thought | had read
that Grover Cleveland, too, had
had, in his youth, a third name.
Francis D. Winston writes from
Windsor: "President Cleveland
was named Stephen Grover
Cleveland. His father was a
Presbyterian preacher. At one
time it was urged that 'Cleve-
land was ineligible to the presi-
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The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-11-27
BrOckwells Move Next Week

Mr.. and Mrs. S. j. BrOckwell
will move next week from the
corner Of Columbia street and
Rosemary lane to their new
home on Henderson street. Pass
ers-by have been much Impress
ed by the thoroughness with
which the landscaping and plant
ing have been done. Most people
wait until they move in to dress
up the yard, but Mr.. and Mrs.
Brockwell reversed the usual
process.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-11-27

Under the title, stadium
ania," The American Campus
quotes protests against the erec-
tion of great stadia to accom-
modate crowds at football
games.
The president of Lehigh Uni
versity makes the charge, says
the Campus, that football is ex-
ercising "a pernicious influence. "
Hendrick Van Loon, author of
"The Story of Mankind" thinks
that "stadia are the tombs un-
derneath which repose the an
cient and honorable ideals of
scholars-they are temples of
greed erected to other gods than
those that ought to be worship
ped within the confines of an
honorable Republic of Letters" "
am struck by the fact that,
in this talk about stadia, mere
size seems to be the main basis
of the complaints. You gather
that a grandstand seating 5000
or 1000 people would not be
dangerous to scholarly ideals,
but that when the seats mount
into tens of thousands a great
sin is committed.
Robert C. Angel, sociology
teacher and former football star,
deplores that interest in the
problems of science, history and
literature is too apt to be re-
placed by "the worship of the
man who can throw a forward
pass thirty yards as straight as
a die or who can hit the line
FOR five yards under the shadow
Of the goal posts"
| happen to live in a commun-
ity where learned men abound.
And my observation is that the
most abandoned lowbrow from
the marts of trade does not push
toward Emerson Field any more
eagerly, when a Carolina-Vir-
ginia football game is on, than
does James F. Royster, or John
NJ. Booker, or William M. Dey,
or Alvin S. Wheeler, or any one
of several dozen other scholars
whose names ] might set down.
And / would be willing to bet
that yesterday-T Thanksgiving
Day-this same Mr.. Angel,
whom / have quoted, was seated
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-11-27
BEAUTIFUL CHRISTMAS
CARDS

Many beautiful designs of
Greeting Cards for Christmas.
With or without the engraving
or the printing of your name.
Envelopes to match. Prices
reasonable. Order now for
prompt delivery. Come and see
the display. The Orange Print
shop, 100 Rosemary street, just
back of the Bank of Chapel Hill.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-11-27
Frederick Warde Next Week

Frederick Warde, will come to
the Playmakers Theatre next
Thursday evening. December /,
to give readings from Macbeth
and humorous recollections of
his fifty years of acting in the
classical drama.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-11-27
POULTRYMEN GET
EGGS IN WINTER
Hens, COmfOrted and EncOurag'
ed by Having Good Shelter,
Lay Willingly
McIVER'S BIG SUCCESS

Thirty-two poultrymen, scat
tered through the country a.
round Chapel Hill, are making
a determined effort to produce
eggs in winter. And those who
provide suitable shelter for
their focks are succeeding.
The hens of. Alex McIver, who
lives out in the Bethlehem
church section toward Mebane,
have been yielding him 100 eggs
a day. He sold SO dozen last
week at prices ranging from so
to 55 cents a dozen.
Good housing is the answer to
the problem of winter egg pro-
duction. Mr.. McIver's own eX-
perience offers proof of this.
This fall he started out with 300
White Leghorns. Two thirds
of them were accommodated in
two houses. The other third
wandered about the place, roost-
ing in trees and wherever else
they willed. One day, R. P. Har-
ris, the agriculture teacher in
the Chapel Hill school, helped
Mr.. McIver gather the days
harvest of eggs. They got about
SO eggs from each of the two
houses, but only 3 eggs from the
approximately 100 hens that had
no house.
Other.farmers whose hens are
laying eggs in considerable guam
tity are Walter Teer, who lives
in the western part of Orange
county; Julian Andrews, of Or
ange Grove; and Bum Riggs
bee, down in Chatham. Sam
Ray, out near White Cross, has
been building him a chicken
house and expects to have, in
consequence, a lot of eggs.
There is practically an unlim-
tied market here for eggs. The
chief consumers in Chapel Hill
Swain Hall and the restaurants
have to rely on importations.
They would be only too glad to
take eggs produced in the coun-
try nearby if these could be
brought to them in large enough
quantities.
Mr.. Harris is planning to test
out the practicability of shipping
direct to New York, where first
grade eggs sell at 85 cents a
dozen. One crate will probably
be shipped, as an experiment.
The investigators at the State
College in. Raleigh say that the
cost of shipping to New York
from this district, including
the commission as well as the
transportation charges, is about
ten cents a dozen.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-11-27

in one of these iniquitous sta
dia we'll nigh shouting his head
off in praise of somebody who
shot a forward pass as straight
as a die or hit the line for five
yards.
Now, if these man may see &
football game-if you and | may
see one-why should the pleas
ure be denied to others who en-.
JOY the spectacle just as much
And how are the people who
want to look on going to do ii
unless the enclosures are made
big? Why is it any more harm
for $4,000 people to see a game
today than it was for 5000 to
see one thirty years ago?
The briefest statement quoted
in the American Campus was
made by football player at
Lake Forest College in Illinois
He said simply: "The real reas-
on for the large stadia is the
necessity for many seats" This
young man, so speaking, did not
say anything striking or pro-
found. But in these few words
he just about told the whole
story.
The fact that everything is
done on an enlarged scale, as
compared with a generation ago,
seems to offend some people
sorely. The objection to bigger
stadia would hold, with as much
force, against bigger locomo-
tives, bigger steamships, bigger
printing presses, bigger build
ings, bigger towns, bigger
schools. Those who don't like
these bigger things had better
learn to endure them as best
they may instead Of wailing a.
bout them. They can't set the
clock back.
One Of the recent important
social changes has been the diff
fusion-one might say, the de-
mocratization-Of education. II
used to be that the collcge-bred
constituted a very much small
er proportion of the whole popu-
lation than they constitute to-
day. Now the secondary schools
feed scores of thousands into
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Mr.. Starnes Comes Here

Rev. J, F. Starnes succeeds
Rey. J. w. Autry as Methodist.
pastor at Carrboro and at Or.
ange Church. Mr.. Autry has
gone to the Webb Avenue Meth
odist church in Burlington.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-11-27
Chapel Hill Eliminated

The Chapel Hill football team,
which was one of the last four
survivors of the eastern section
of the statesin the high school
championship series, was beaten
by Sanford 13 to 0 on Emerson
Field Tuesday.
Evening star., 1925-11-23
EARLE-"keep Smiling"

The Earle program this week is q
veritable "blues-chaser." Snappy dance
music. peppy girls. and much in the
way of witticism are included. with
no scenes to cause tears.
Monty Banks seems at his best in
Keep Smiling" the feature length
film comedy. Anna CornWell plays
opposite in a story of a boy who. due
to his fathers death by drowning, is
dreadfulIy afraid of water. and invents
a ite-preServcr. on going to the home
of the president of a Shipbuilding
firm to show him the invention, he
Is mistaken for famous boat racer.
is not given a chance to explain. but
is forced into a race, driving a speed
boat belonging To the ship maGnate.
His mishaps are comical and created
continuous laughter last night.
The Mitchell Brothers. Singing
Banjotsts From the South" seemed
10 he the hit Of the vaudeville acts
They offer a repertoire Of popular and
Southern melodies, with Il few
operate airs. Marion Wilkins and
Robert Heft. with the Lido Orches-
ira. the leading attraction, also pre-
sent delightful ACT in Dances Ga
lore Music and More
Artie Lewis and Peggy Ames are
ul:rth provoking in We Know a
Thing on Two; William 4. Kennedy.
the Irish-American Tenor" is Very
good in The Minstrel Boy offering
Irish and American songs, and others
include Lew Oliver ana Mae Olsen
in ~ Series of Smiles" a short act
of comic dances and songs. and the
Norin Sisters, billed as Three Variety
Gems" organ selections and a
short tlm comedy top off the pro
Evening star., 1925-11-23
STRA\D-CharIes Fay K Co.

y pretentious act with a bevy OF
pretty girls and peppy melodies. star
ring Charles Foy, son OF Eddie Foy.
accompanied by cleo Pergain. Lillian
Fields. Cliugham and Jefferies. Marcy
Ross and Helen johnson. in a minia-
ture musical revue. headlines the
Tha nksgiving week bill at the Strand
Theater.
There are we'll sung songs. senti-
mental and popular, and dancing, toe
and otherwise. Each PLAYER gives his
own act, including conceptions of Ed
die Foy. Ann Pennington and George
White, and two girls do breezy
Charleston There are also beautiful
costumes and lavish sets.
Charlie Wilkens and Addie Wilkens
were encored in Comedy Eccentrici-
ties" and furnish catchy songs and
genuine comedy James Carlisle and
Isabelle La Nal in The Interview"
offer witticisms. interspersed with
songs and SaXophone playing. Frank
Ward presents Insane Topics Sanely
and a novel dance revue in miniature,
both his own creations. Kara, inter
national iuggler, balances and juggles
everything in sight.
The photoplay. Red Hot Tires IS
full of romance. thrills, spills and
comedy. Monte Blue, the hero. tells
Patsy Ruth Miller. every time | see
YOU something happens" and il does.
Patsy does not forget she is the
Judges daughter and a speed demon,
being summoned to court five times
by the same officer, later being kid
naped by two strangers. Monte
shows good speed as a motorcyclist
in saving his fiancee.
Evening star., 1925-11-23
HOW TO GET RID
OF MISCELLANEOUS
Beach patrolman advises
this treatment

After exposure to dampneSs and
cold, and after hard exercise, mus
cles will stiften up and get lame.
A beach patrolman at Atlantic
City writes that he has found this
treatment the quickest and most
effective way to take out the stiff
ness and pain:
Just pat on a little of Sloan's
Liniment. Don't rub. It's the lin
iment-not the rubbing-that helps.
You'll get relief right away. I've
tried all sorts of other things, but
nothing gets results like Sloans."
Hundreds of letters like this tell
of the wonderful relief from mus
cular pain that Sloan's gives.
Sloan's gets results because it
doesn't just deaden pain, it
gets at the cause. Right to the
place that hurts it brings heal
ing stream of fresh, new blood.
Quickly and surely it carries off
the "fatigue-poisons," takes out
stiffness and drives away the
aches and pains.
Get bottle today and have it on
hand. All druggists-35 cents. DR..
Earl S. Sloan, 113 w. 18th ST., New
York.
Evening star., 1925-11-23
PALACE-'Tower of Lies"

Lon Chaney, with powerful char
acter portrayal. almost succeeds in
raising the Tower Of Lies" to the
heights expected of a production fea-
turing 50 versatile an artist. Tower
OF Lies is the Palace Theater feature
this week
The loosely constructed and rather
sordid plot is lightened by the simple
idealistic faith of the rugged Nor
Wegian farmer. Jan, whose love for
his daughter lifts him about his bar
rem surroundings into a dream-world
OF his own imaginings where she
reigns, an empress of goodness and
beauty
Al the outset. one is never quite
sure where the lies come in. 1t seems
rather that most of the worthy char
acters spend their time telling the
brutal truth to the gentle old man
whose heart they finally succeed in
breaking, after his mind has become
dimmed by grief and anxiety for his
lovely daughter who had gone to the
city to make enough money to pay
off the mortgage on their small farm
and had failed 10 return.
All told, Selma Lagerlof's beautiful
story. The Emperor of Portugalha," ="
appears to have been badly treated
and more's the pity, by Victor
SeaStrom.
Mr.. CLANCY leaves nothing to be
desired in his portrayal of the gaunt
old dreamer. and is supported by
well chosen east with Norma Shearer
Co-Starring as the daughter. It may
be said Of the cast as of the two stars
they are worthy of better vehicle
An unusually amusing Our Gang"
comedy is received with roars Of
laughter as the neiehborhood young
Sters experiment with Mexican jump
ing beans and samples of toothpaste
Topics of the Day. the third chapter
Of the Pathe Anniversary News Re
View. n scenic and a unique feature.
entitled Magical Movies" complete
the added attractions.
Evening star., 1925-11-23
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS"

classified" the film version of
Edna Ferber's magazine story,
want Ads" is one Of the very few
photoplays that adhere closely to
the story from which they are adapt
ed 1t is well worth seeing, and
Crandan's Metropolitan all this week
and Crandalls Ambassador today
and tomorrow are offering the op=
portunity.
While it depicts the story of a
modern business girl with ambitions
far above her position. classified
is by no means the usual story OF
Souls for Sables.' 1t is all about
Miss BabS Comet. one of the girls
in the classified ad department of
New York daily, and she is not what
one ordinarily would call a typical
business girl. But she is an every
day type that saves carfare by rid
ing to work in Rolls Royces with un-
known men. and who walks home
from automobile rides when the
driver runs out of gas in front of
roadhouse. Her misdirected nerve
often gets her into tight places, but
invariably pulls her out of them by
the skin of her teeth. And she does
get a chance to realize her aspira-
tionS to live on Fifth avenue and
wear furs, but turns the chance down
for a nice young automobile me-
chanic and a share in his $40 week,
every week.
Corrine Griffith is at her best in
this picture, for she really acts her
part and does it well. Indeed, she
seems to have cast off her former
self. which. after all. was always
obvious, more or less, and to have
put on the honest TO goodness indi-
yiduality of Babs, the want ad girl,
who posed as a lady.
Jack MulhaIl's good humor and
charm as the mechanic help to
make the nice young man who
| knows how to bring them to their
knees; Ward Crane is his usual
auave self as the rich young man
who aspired to Babs' heart and
Evening star., 1925-11-23

hand. and if the cast is entitled to
a share of the credit for success,
Babs' totally disappearing family
should receive the blue ribbon.
Lloyd Hamilton'S latest effort,
Movies seems rather n detraction
than an added attraction. The
Pathe News of 1914. however. helps
TO make the audience forget it. An
enjoyable musical program includes
Won Suppe's overture. Morning,
Noon and Night" by the Metropoli-
tan symphony under Daniel Bree-
skin and Miss Paxton and Milton
Davis in pleasing pipe organ and
piano duets.
Evening star., 1925-11-23

peared yesterday and Is the feature a.
Crandall's Central Theater today. The
story was adapted from Eugene r
Lyle, jr.'s story Of "BIaze Derringer.
and exploits the stars prowess as
boxer and q gymnast.
Wanda Hawley, Tom Wilson am
Dan Mason are in the supporting ca
A two-reeler, Fair Warning" ujt#
Al st. John, one Of the nimblest Il.
acrobatic comedians; other short rec
and pipe organ music complete Ill,
bill
Evening star., 1925-11-23
A NJ L S Z NJ E n 7 S

Ballet" with elaborate scenery and
beautiful costumes. In the company Is
Norree a wonderful acrobatic dancer.
\ snappy final comes when Nine. Pom
pador and the entire company cannot
withstand the jazz music and join in
dancing the charleston"
The Aurora Troupe of cyclists pre-
sent a fine exhibition of hand and head
balancing; Little Traps" follows with
his clever drum playing; Margit Hege-
duS plays the violin with skill and
feeling; Jimmy Nervo and Teddy Knox
have a talking act in burlesquing the
Russian dancers and then Holloway
and Austin, the wire walkers, making
their act 4 laughing success.
Evening star., 1925-11-23

personates a youth who sets out to
dethrone the school idol and have him
self nominated the most popular man
in the institution. He patterns his
efforts after the manner of a hero Of
the movies. whose performance he
has viewed six times In one day as Il
sort Of preparatory course. But what
really happens is that he is nominated
foi. the post of college boob.
a fine supporting east is headed by
Jobynn RnlstOn, as the only girl who
understood the boy. and Pat Harmon,
Evening star., 1925-11-23
TINOII-"The Freshman.

Crandall's Tivoli Theater the first
three days of this week is showing
THE Freshman" with Harold Lloyd
in the title role. 1t is a comedy of
college life, in which the star i'm.
Evening star., 1925-11-23

the foot ball coach, harder boiled than
q 40-minute egg.
The Pathe Review and short reels,
with pipe organ music by Otto +.
Beck and Harold r. Pease round out a
pleasant entertainment
Evening star., 1925-11-23
Daughter of Rosie
O'Gra1N."

Pat Rooney's children, Pat, the
third and his show all have grown
IN. The show that brought Pat TO
Washington in vaudeville for several
years. blossomed last night at Poli 5
a fulI-bloWn musical comedy, FULFILL
ing perfectly its promise in youth
that the daughter of Rosie O'Grady
would be a beautiful lady when she
grew up. Furthermore, in substance,
she's the simple, old-fashiOned girl
about whom Pat sang for so many
years.
Pat, the third. in appearance a per-
feet chip off the old block, proves
there's something in the doctrine Of
heredity in his perfect imitation Of
the paternal excellence in dancing
But for the fact that the son is bru-
net and more collegiately dressed, it
would be difficult TO tell which of the
two was dancing.
The show is rich in dancing, richer
IN this respect. perhaps, than any
thing of its kind that has visited
The CAPITAL this year. The first act
finale is a crashing Interpretation OF
the Charleston. 1t was typically
Rooney. and it's reception by the au-
dienCe was splendid.
Marion Bent, Mrs. Rooney. and the
two Pats share in the successful spe-
HiIltN, 'DdllSnItI OIL lAtSIt - vi Sd'tS >
the climatic dancing bit in the second
act Pat. the elder, starts the num-
ber-which is about his own age-the
son takes it up and emulateS his IA
ther's every step. then the par do II
together, and before the audience IS
willing to let the show proceed, father,
mother and son are dancing.
The Rooneys are not the only
dancers in the show. Rose keSSner
and Helen O'Shea, as well as the
small, pretty and well trained chorus
live up to the best Rooney tradition.
Martha Vaughn and Frank Corhett
handle well the vocal numbers, which
seem rather incidental.
KEITH H'S-Justine JOlnstone.
The Keith management offers fine
program for Thanksgiving week open
ing last night with a large audience.
Justine Johnstone occupies the top
line position Edwin Burke. who APP
pears TO be on the top wave Of success
at present, has written Miss Johnstone
an unusually interesting playlet en-
titled. Judy O'Grady" which affords
the actress ample scope for her talents.
The story concerns a society queen
Who interviews 'Saleslady" to obtain
material for a book she IS writing.
The latter unfolds experiences that
makes the conversation unusually en-
iovable. Her chief point is that fine
clothes make the wearer. To decide
this the suitor of the society queen Is
TO act as the judge. The big punch
then comes when the Suitor who has
lost his eyesight in the big war comes
on the stage to embarraSS the shop
Girl. The supporting company is eX-
reIlent and with the star had TO re-
snond to several curtain calls.
Another big attraction is the dane
ing act staged by Albertina Rasch.
under The title OF The Pompadour
Evening star., 1925-11-23

at, in this picture, at least, has de-
Veloped n new power of emotional ap-
peal which proves her 70 be an actress
of ability as well as "a fomus beauty.