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STARS DESERT
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third play will be "Poor the etar of a speclal extra act to
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Don't expect a nashing blonde
tho.
Tonight
Tonight
good FOR tub HEAD
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BUREAU TO AID
MERCHANTS
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First Baptist Auditorium
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TONIGHT AT 8:30 O’CLOCK
greater strength.
"to see
"Aa AmerteA phenomenem whe to
tore, pie and coffee.
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over 150 Men's high-grade
Bunday
NOW
There are now
Tom
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with
BTARTING MOXDAY
Thursday and Friday, Feb. IMO
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Former Values
Up to $SOM
Big Time Vaudeville
LAST TWO DAYS
however, that the one man would
probably not have died from the
For Two Days Only
Friday and Saturday
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Song
and
i Three-
iences
Beginning Saturday
Another Big Show
RITZ
BROS.
Washer's Two-Day Sale
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of
“The
Auction
Block”
ton has atarted here on Amort
firsteChtnese coperative comi
nity apartment house which '
Thornton
A Squires
COMING
SATURDAY
For Next Week
ruo-
toe's
NO WONDER FLAPPERS ARE
THIN—THEY EAT SQ LITTLE
STYLE REVUE
rhe Boot of Them All
Dave
Schooler
A Brattleboro. Vt. man expert- l
r meated with sugar cane and grew
enough to make two quarto of eu-
gar from the home product.
etear. Moa
aom rmr
"The girls just don' eat noth-
tag." says Hazlewood.
Appetites of the male lunchers
down at the Marne show a vastly
Member of the Board of La
The First Church of Ctor
TEXAS HOTEL—
CHINESE APA
1AN TRANCIC
Buchard, waiter there.
"It's nothing at all," says Mike,
Knocks 'em dizzy, fetching Uthe-
ness of the American “flap"!
And the secret? v It's no secret
will at all. Bays B Hazlewood, smiling
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Blanche Sweet
Lols Wilmon
And a New Film Beauty
ForLeughs
CLOWN
SHOW
Charles Ray
Eleanor
Boardman
| ' Sally ONeil
M
Thrils
TOM
MIX
His Greatest Picture
PALAC:
—OF OOURSE
McKAY
and
ARDINE
Bureau here are brought to frui-
tion.
Advertisers with a flair for the
Better Business Method
Urged By Ad Club
girls run in-patrs. One pays today,
the other tomorrow.”
“CAREFUL PLEASE”
Pnthe News
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Grows Cold”
Prico 10a.m. 10c
Comer Eighth and Main Streets
FRIDAY EVESIXG, FEBRUARY 19, 1026
AT EIGHT O'CLOCK
You and Your Friends Are Cordially Invited to Be.Present
i
PALACE-FAIR
Seventh
Bemi-Annual
“The Lady”
Ruth Draper
- "The Beat Actrens la the
World"
“Coming Thru"
Abo Adventures of Mazle
Special Attraction
Wort by his master, Duard D.
Wilson, after completing two pie-
ROSELAND THEATRE
UMNi Main St.
be a elx-atory, roinforead eoaermo
structure, divided into three room
and four-room apartmenta, with
one of eight rooms.
1"25"5
.
*
Public Will Be Asked to
■tar MM wim be
. Seam* pimk soC poor
ALPS
Thursday aad Friday
Fhomas Meighan
Lib Laa '
in a short time.
1
f ■
-
I
the flrat Uma since the tie-up be-
came etectir eh September 1.
With a fivey-Ar Wage agree-
ment signed, the minora look for-
ward to the longest term of peace
in the industry.
DOWN TO WORK (
By Unte4 Pgena.
CMNCN, Pa., Teb. 18. —
The anthracite coal strike to a
thing of the past
Thousande of miners this morn-
“This Woman” /
Ura greatest love story ever told, featuring Irene Rich.
Ricardo Cortes aad Clara Bow
Watch for_"THE MERRY WIDOW”
find themselves in ''hot water” servitor at. Pangburn's; popular
t in Fort Worth if preliminary plans noontide repdezvous for Fort
being laid for a Better Business Worth "lookers."
Abo Lloyd Hamilton
HARRY BROWN’S
FORT WORTH REVUE
' on serees
Nazimova —
Milton Sills
CAPITOL
SOW
SCHOOL FACULTY
Training nchooi has been con.
dusted during the past week at
Tabernacle Haptiat hureh
Special workers have been at)
tending the etaslona. Leadens A
the church are taeluded on thel
faculty. Rev. Joba S. Batea. Mra.
Batea, Mra. Joe Coleman and I
others are taching the trainlag
Special for
MONDAY
tow. M has beeeme the target trim
Larause in She •«<
FREE LECTURE ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
by
ROBERT STANLEY ROSS, C. 8.
OF NEW YORK CITY
amount of mail recelved by their
contract players. It to a test </t
AUS
spends
for put
ation f
a year,
matche
173.00
.......- and in
Presun
spend
than a
square
The
depart
lor its
ment <
health
year
ant he
who st
county
four
clerks
“ The
with a
teriolo
essary
.......
yedhbrygof the Mother Church,
/ Seihkst, tn Ppaton, Mass.__
URTEENTH FLOOR
' 1124, while many of the feminine
| stars are reverting to outright
1 slap-stick.
cause one pansenger was killed
during 1124. thus making tt im-
Th
comp
upon
taken
prem
miga
th
preca
tines,
tine,’
Germ
mum
main
in cas
couta
« emterni
na metter Then "Viera, Mtrenger
Next Week
The High Cost of Lovinf"
CUT FLOWERS
I Raw to tSesh i
2
‘1 ne current cinema avaava
mark the ext of charhe EhaPI"
i
__________I- popularity, and
hence their ticket window value.
I
Ikwet stay besd-
-hy. dizzy, billons.
Old Jim." by Cecil DeMille. Roe- play at Pantages Friday.
8tu<
prever
Brea
has di
| Ord
.11 on
report
requir
visit t
otficer
has a
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smalli
epiden
tis. de
demie
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confid
of the
~ otect
lions
the St
Hot
house
are al
report
they <
a phys
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sketch in the life of an old maa.
Lttle Theater management
wants patrons to assist in select-
ing a play. to be entered in the
Dallas competition and later. pos-
' aibly, the New York tournament
for the 15,000 Belasco price for
the best production of a one-act
qdras.The audiences will be ex-
I pec ted to assist in making the so-
' ection.
Thrilling Drama
A stirring and thrlllag drama
to be given is "Drums of Oude" a
.play of India that reaches a cli-
max' with Tubule between High- i
lander regiments and the muU-
soon and -the need of such a bu- _ -
reau here gene into thcroly_ May-. around and talk."
___ or H C. Meacham. chairman, said' Butit’s nofsafpriaiBg to Basic-
Thursday. • ~ . word some of the shop nifttes
Two Texas ities.------———
testifies Mike
The
Metro-Goldwyn
Picture
with
d Value was estimated at se,-
000. The fire started in the va-
cant house.
injurles he received had he not
8t had a weak heart.
COMIC SHOWS
Three Actresses Return
to Slapstick Movies
•}dWoon, Feb 11 —Film
fans will get their laughs from
the ladies hereafter—the male
comedians are going in 'for digni-
fied seven-reei features during
jacks TIPS] CHILDREN
--waan ap inn— -J Anip
tee. Two Texas elties are on the
eters of inquiry pertafnIngtothe,
reliability of any firms doinr
business in Fort Worth.
By cooperating with the natton-
al organisation. the local bureau
could likewise give reports on
advertisers in other cities, Meach-
am pointed out.
~—This work is now beinr done in
v a measure bv the CofC, Manufac-1
turers and Wholesalers Associa-
tion. eivie elubs and other orran-
izations. but it is the belief d j
many ad elub members a special
bureau should devote its full time
to the work
4. To protect the buying pub-
lic from busfness_faktrs. "
The bureau wota serve at a fl
। At one studio alone, an average
I J- J. Powers, who portrays of 100,000 letters per month are
---------- ----------- "Drama” in the sketch, was gen- recelved by contract performers,
verting to straight comedy, of theieral stage director with A. H. Of this number 71 percent ‘
figurative eustard pie variety—the Woods' productions for a number from children between the agee
class of pictures in which each got, of years and traveled for several of < and 10. The remaining 11
Average noontime repast of
BRAVEHEART "
-<Coming Saturday -
Mra. Rudolph
VALENTINO
in
list—Dallas and Houston
Meacham oulmed the purposes
of such an organization as fol-
lows:
1. To increase public confidenee
in advertising and business, and
to educate the public to an un-
derstanding of' the integrity of
purpose and practice of honest
business.
2 To prevent deception in ad-
vertising and merchandising, and
to correct unethical practiees.
3. To reduce unfair competi-
tion.
TWO
LITTLE THEATER! °°g To 86 star of Pantages Act
WITaRJa8B ALASKA. g
* VANCOUVER, B. CL Feb. t» — f
Matching reports of unusual win ■
i ter wenher in usually storm- |
i bound Alaaka. residents north <4 A
L here have sent in sprig from sal* i
| monberry sad raspberry bushes in l
I full bloom.
U Locally, residents have been
Henpturing caterpillars and butter-
i t... —.
Fort Worth Little Theater play-
. era are planning for the Febru-
ary presentation of three one-act
plays which are said to be the best -
selections ever made for produs- I
tion here.
Variety is given in a stirring j
melodrama, a beautiful scenic and
costume play and a touching
force March 20, according to City
Manager Carr.
Carr plana to send the men to I
become skilled in making arrests,
self-protection and Japanese wres-
tling. n
The offleera haven’t been se-
lected, but probably wilt be chosen
Bualneas fim-nammers
it to estimated by Producers
that more then half a million fan
FEW GET GOOD WAGES.
MADISON, Wie— Only eight
Wisconsin villages pay their vil-
lage presidents more than 2100 a
year, and only nine others pay the
same offielals as much as 1100 a
year, according to reports cem-
piled by the Municipal IInforma-
tion Bureau of the State Univer-
sity Extension Division. " ’
-------- - —bill of the eason,. playing --- -
-------n and Ford Sterling ita laat tme at Pantages Theater tbeir personal
from the field of straight comic Thursday and Friday
creations. They are all adding a She’s uttle Mis Josephine
(toush of drama and pathos to their Masstab, just turned it. ____________________________
‘characteriztions, and their films Despite her youth, Josephine letters are received by the Holly-
will be long beven-reelers, with haa played in productions with wood picture playera every month,
heavy plot sequences. _ Wilton Lackaye, Theodore Kosiotf
At the same time, such Well and other luminaries.
known stars as Leatrice Joy, Bebel J. J. Powers, who
Daniels aad Theda Bara are re-1 —
1 "When Love
Railway officials point
nous Sepoys The cast tor this
play will include Mrs. Bettie Knox,
William Preston.. Hunter E. Gard-
ner, Emerson Holcomb, lawrence
! Clayton, Burton. Lyon and Frank-
lyn Wolfe.
"In a Chinese Garden" to a
< play, by a Paris woman, which!
' will star Miss Velma Dean. Clin-
I ton King also playa a load, and
' the company includes Jimmy Wel-
Harold Lio;
GhesterConl
Rod La Rocque
Lillian Rich
Robert Edeson
la a Ceelt B D»MIHe —
Production
Oenttnueua Pertormanee I u II
— BAir
"THE SPIRIT OF
VAUDEVILLE"
chap in here yesterday—ate a doe
«n fried, a dozen raw, then stuffed
in a bowl of pudding and a banana
on top of that.
"Other day served a carpenter a
FT-bone steak, breaded veal cutleta
salad, cottee and.ple ... .. • . Program will also be given at
And.atunny thinz., tt’athe fat the PA seslonat 10 a. m. Tues r
a«a who eat Ue merit at the school
COPS TO TRAIN „ ‘ 2ran..
Two Fort Worth policemen are Hvers potatoes in a single opera-
scheduled to enter the training tion:
school of the New York police ------------;--
ginger. Helen Gertrude Sparks.
Frances Wilson, Carrig A Long
4 Camilla Fort. Earl Howard and
Sidney Calloway. nil,..................
BAKER FLORAL CO. e
13 meusten as.
---. tam wpDaj . hu--------- —
meh nonn
■ea, mmi. hee. masw, nes. ae
New York World
---"An artist who mmews Breedway,
, seek year, the art ta aetiag."—
New York Evening Foot
Teketa, $1.00, $1.50 and $2.00
Neer so Bale Fakes A Co
rhone Lamar TTM
HAVOC
With Geo. oBrlen
and Madge Bellamy
Ooe or twe pitea-
nt r «Rp aai "Ce-
"ureta" takrs top
ame wil mue, etim-
ilate yew Ivet ase
tart poor ■ wewele.
■We yea arm hee
Ml ace teet n«es.
poealble to equal the records of
1100 and 1968, when none was
hilled.
The performer will be Axel.
Fort Worth dog picture star, who
recently was brought back to Fort
r- g Meacham • committee ft comi- -puA,A । b^, g?
I j posed of WiniLm Monnig Sr. S 1 V• r into
; ® Lar Amon G Carter; W E Loss from Wednesday night
| Thomas. /W E Austin and W. C tires in Fort Worth totaled
1 1 Mayborn. $8 700
Tb* bureau if oreanized "1; ' Home of Dr. B. Terrell. 1154
F depend upon the xubserirtions of Eighth Avenue, and a vacant
local,merchants for.sypport.and heuse adjoining at 1150 Eighth
wilbe.affilated wit th ’ ation- Avenue, were burned/ Damage to
al.Better Businesn, Bureau at Dr. Terrelle house was estimated
f. New York it., Meacham sald.lat si 700 a
ow bureals in 41 dt- Fe-reafhouse was destroy-
9n m9o
---- DEATH PENALTY
wartbashtznsehoot arSatEaRramtorsPoncalozuat'
Lieut. E D. Crites, will give • the‘deathtpe inalty“aAn be laftlet.
program at the high school at 8:40 .a upon any found guilty of sell-
a.m. Tueday: ing army suppies from the 8a-i
The following program will be Llontk warehouses-—belonging to
a fellow eat a dozen oys- Eyqn.MarshntWaahinstnn the government. The value of the !
. .IN "e. --------- o5t0 • "Vawe Oriental. Moonlight property already atolea to said to
2 i . on l*1* Nile 5 Oovotte Souvenir": hav. rnehed a lare. amount I
"Sometimes it takes a lot mor. -The wild Hower"; "Adoration h>V* * 1>r<* amOunt
• Waltz." by cadet saxophone band. • MraR.t. Mac Frat, secretary of
accompanied on Plano by Nedra the riah Free State legation, la
Critesi foxtrot. Freshie : An- the only woman member of the
- ta.i march. The. Booster": '2 “ foreign diplomatic corpa in Wash-
Sitting on Top of the World”; initn
"Indian War Dance”; "The Old fl______ . ;
Gray Mare.” ------------------------------
. extravagant promtses of the eireus —_____ ________ ______ _
ballyhoo man will feel a rwtrain- Mlaa "Hopper"?
I ins arm and the confidence. of it rarely costa more than 20c.
r t the buying public in the xetafler confides Hazlewood. ——
— f greatiy strengthened. A sandwich, "coke,"---that's than then to aatiafy 'em.
I A meeting of a special commit- about all they want.
mr V tee-appointed from the Fort Most popular sandwiches.
m • m w orth Adrerti• Tt Club to consid- ssy» Haiiewood, are chicken sal-
m ■ m " ' a ' • i ■ -• . •2 *-
. " a Business Bureau 111 he called avoided
g soon and the reed of Sh a “ "The girls mostly just stick
BY JACK GORDON.
"Your girls -la, la!...
xey eee so adorably slim! “
First comment, that, of half the
beauty experts stepping into
America
GIVE NUMBERS is “STZ
ation of the popular story made
Two Programs Scheduled recently by popular demand.
for Tuesday Morning -----------
can't take on a hearty "aquare" at
noon.
They do a lot of nibbling ’tween
meals, he reveals.
. "Some of the girls are in here
four or five times a day after
sodaa and sandwiches.
"The checks? Moat of the
or a slick young "sheik,"
folks
lp<
foregi
munic
office
seven
He
quara
antine
modir
lation
or < g
Abi
placar
yellow
ing it
sons '
tends
Abi
for in
phote
also f
isex.
permi
preca
modir
cases
fever.
Ty|
dysen
and a
Abi
the s
excep
ises a
be ise
rooms
ted. |
mesh
kept
for e
ants
in
ical
Atten
howe
and <
Sp
libers
restri
assem
use it
must
toilet
co. Carnriie and Edith Glenn and
Phil Firm appear. Carnrike has
played this lead before and many
of the older Little Theater pa-
trona remember the portrayal he
gave of the part.
Tickets will be oa ase Friday
morning at the Little Theater, 401
West Fourth street
-———.
F
I ‘
L, .
E Be Vse Eme» Whe LAve to
“The House Next Doer"
T". rise toe Asi.w Bsw
■y AU Hmm D‛ Wu~l.
MMtoM. Bverf Wenn,
rdas sM a^iMeai
“The House Next Door”
A -Mraray •
Appi
of wat
spectlo
com nn
bated
gather
year.
Of t
one ex
for ma
The
sists o
:
who h
years,
gives a
stays s
tend r
called
day to
The li
may r
1500.
The
points
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must i
but ne
practic
The
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thorli
ventio
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agains
. ternal
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put In
'. BY JACK.
No one who saw "Sally, Irene r...eA:.e ___
aad Mary” at the Palace a month Juveniles Compose
or.50 Me kae forgotten little Sally Fourths of Audi
O’Neill. , -
And now-great news--she's I DY LINCOLN QUARBERG.
back. United Frees Staff Correspondent.
Bally plays along with Charles HOLLYWOOD, Feb, 11. —
Ray aad Eleanor Boardman in Three-tourths of the world's mo-
"The Action Block,” which ar-tion pieture audlence are chtdren,
rived at the Hippodrome Thursday, aceording to a survey ot the laa
The tale’a by Rex Beach, mall recelved by prominent Mare.
• • • Fan letters comprise the barom- . ----. — l l -
_______ Vodvu’s youngest "leadingeter of thefum Industry. Pro-tingehterdsthozunderrroundre
The current cinema season will woman" is atarted-Xa—“The ApirlONi
her start. seasons with Theodora Roberto percent comes from the grown-ups
The sally of the feminine eru-when that popular star was doing in every walk of life. aad frogs
saders into the laugh-provoking1-The Great Divide." - erery corner of the globe,
business will be carefully studied Torguena ana Pettie, the danc The bulk of the mall, of course.
— by the ftim-makers, for the rela-Mag team in the revue, were tor-teomes to the esteblished etelar-
Uve funninesa of the atom sad merly with Eddie Cantor's "Make lumtnarles who reoetvo between
shrill sexes in Hollywood to a it Snappy." Eleaaor Edeson, who 5000 and 6000 letters a month,
much discussed question. portrays "Opera," was stagtag in The younger stars who have
Leatrice Joy's departure from the eboir of the Christian Science flashed Into prominenee in • the
drama to comedy will be first ob- Church in New York when offered past two years reestva an average
served ia "Eve’s Leaves,” a film the variety contract, and Louis of 1000 letters per month,
shs has just begun on the DeMille; O’Noill, the acrobat, baa boon with ■ — — - —----
lot it will be filled with gam the biggest pantomimes la Amer- AME Knn
and thrillers of the old slapstick tea aad Europe. Loretta Ahearn, • •I
school. •< the "burloeque" girl, formerly was P’YANMN"-. ______ n.12
Bebe Daniels hes been created a dancer with the ’Music Box Re- qa-MDotwr lnamn.en.
I head of her own comedy unit at vuo" aad Earl Carroll’s “Vaal- tsh rau"ay "orid « ehaurined bo
the Paramount plant. She will ap- ties."
A Fort Worther wel-known la turee in California. ’ pear In cmte thrillers exclusive eee
Hollywood movie eireles -will ho The pictures were “Tho All -new "Paa" bulla will open
---- - _ ----. . ------ — "Pursued" Gaston Mullons, now being ground thru on8aturdaylnsteadof8unday.be-
Trai ana ursued. Ganton-the cameras, she performs every ginning thi wook.
Glass and Stuart Holmes support- thrill known to old-time gagmen. A Fort Worth girl will be one
ed the big shepherd in the latter from twisting a lion's tail to fall- of the shiners on next week's
film. Both will be released thiu ing off a bicycle. । show. She’s Hasel Mann, who
spring and Axel will return to the Theda Bara is resorting to com- formerly attended school at
coast to make 10 more pietures. edy to win her long-heralded Ignatius Academy hero
Axel makes his home at the comeback on the screen. She has Miss Mann will appear in a skit
Sunny South Kennels on the Dal- undergone the strangest metamor- titied "Garage Love." INDIANAPOLIS Ind._Motor
phosis of all, transposing ber vam- eee polic.men SeX1.0 *■ a 1L. 70
pire talent into feminine tunn- "Tena ot the Storm Country,” 50 empty hair tonic btti when
nep8.n She "11, ApDear., on. thei Mary Piekford’s foremost hit, to at they in’estigated a report from
screen-qoonin.aserigngpft"pprree the odeon today. Ml* Llian Mortality that her
thrmilera, produced by Hal Roach Lloyd Hughee supports the star husband, Feank. has Mon drunk ,
' in a teautifur productton. । for a week Sho told police her
A a nr- n ■ AI A Tonguee nd Mr. aad Mrs. Pub- husband’s fondness for the scalp
> f' JI I IL I KANII Til He began tbeir flrat wagging anent i treatment had grown almost Into
UHUL I DHIVU I U Mary Pickford following the mak- a habit.
ing of the original version of--— ■ 1 ■■
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