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AN INTRODUCTORY HISTORY
by
A. EL CROOK, OBE, H.A. W. KAY, M.A.
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ROUND THE LOCAL of caror other than marriage and
CINEMAS.
What Mail Reviewers Say.
"REACHING FOR THE MOON."
a home of her own some day, now has five pictures to her credit, all of them outstanding productions, and returns to Ireland a full-flcjged movic-star.
"A Connecticut Yankee," from Mark Twain's famous story, can
now be seen and heard at the King's Theatre. It presents Will Rogers In the greatest role.
"ONE ROMANTIC NIGHT."
THE
CHINA
MAN'S SEVEN MURDERS.
His
is" Mail Order ''
Brides.
MAIL.
Mrs. Eicher's` · body; 'wrapped in Backing, was excavated from a plt behind the garage, and soon after wards, in another hole, the bodies of her three children were found. All were wrapped in burlap, and Powers were much decomposed. was arrested, and also his wife and DUNGEON USED AS SLAUGHTER-ion, made yesterday after
But the man in his confes- sister.
HOUSE,
night of questioning confess- મd that he murdered Mrs. Eicher and ber three chil- dreń, Gretu, Harry, and Annabel, and he further, in a signed statement, absolved his wife and sister-in-law of any complicity in the crimes.
New York, Aug, 30, Harry F. Powers, alias Cornelius Plerson, of Quiet Dells, near Clarke burk (West Virginia), is in the county gaol with a mob clamouring to lynch him because he has con-
Athletic, bounding Douglas Fairbanks in 11 present day romance with vivacious Bebe Daniels as the cause of his heart flutter, is something unusual, After the manner of little boya, and, boy, what a draw!
Marie Dressler began her stage Well peppered with funny career at ten by running away from situations in which Doug, Bebe, her home in Coburg, Canada, to fossed to crimes placing him in the This front rank of murderers and Edward Everett Horton
a one ring circus. (as play in
as marriage "racketeera." Doug's valet), and Claud Allister international star, who is cast
"One (as
Horace
Romantic Sir
Partington "Beatrice" in
The case, as at present envisaged, Chelmsford, Rebe's fance), rise Night," United Artists' all-dialogue Indeed resembles that of the French nobly to the occasion and make version of Ferenc Molnar's "The
wholesale murderer, Landru, who you rock with laughter, "Reach-Swan," starring Lillian Gish com-killed a dozen "wives" and a boy ing for the Moon" is a happily ing to the. Queen's Theatre on Sun- thought out picture. It also day, eventually reached New York some years ago. gives plenty of scope for Doug's City where she set up a record as gymnastic stunts which is the foundation of his fame as a dare- devil.
success.
In this picture Doug is a Wall Street financier who thinks his one love is his business and con- sequently takes acant notice of In 1014, she lent her comedy the girls, leaving them to the talents to "Tillie's Punctured Ro- which she co-starred "softer" guys. Bebe,.as a mem-mance" in ber of a famous flying family. with Charlie Chaplin for Mack herself a daring "birdie," but Sennett. very feminine, is used to receive In "One Romantic Night" the the attention of men. She is famous comedienne plays à serio "atung" when Doug turns down comic dowager princess whose an offer of an introduction to her, efforts to marry her daughter to a and acts out to vamp him "just crown prince result in success but to show him up."
not in the way she had planned."
a
Third Degree All Night Ordeni.
Powers was the picture of calm cocksurencas when arrested. But
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the "third degree" all night aft him perspiring dishevelled, and distraught. To-day ho asked to Ebenezer the Rev. Thomas Gainer, a local Baptist pastor, and to the clergyman he said, regarding the Elchers: "I took them to the Then collar and strangled them.
Powers, a short, fat, smug-faced the highest kicking ahow girl be-man, wearing big horn spectacles, fore or after her. But kicking-admits. slaying Mrs. Asta Eicher, I hit them all over the head with Oh! I am so sorry. I pedal brand exclusively-got her handsome dark-eyed widow of 50, a hammer. nowhere, so she tried the vaudeville of Park Ridge (linois)-a "mall want to get right with God."
The murderer told the pastor he stage and there met with real order sweetheart" whose acquain
a matri- had been "money-crazy." He has tance he made through
advertisement--and her read stories of . "Bluebeards" and monial three children, aged five, eight, and "racketeers," and they had hypno-
tised him. twelve years.
His matrimonial advertisement But he is accused of killing at described him as a rich engineer least three
Their more persone.
whose business enterprises prevent- identity has not yet been established him making the personal ac- ed, but their bodies were dug up quaintance of the woman he yesterday near a garage,
writing to "making social con- But it sold, They include that of a young wo-tacta," as he put ft. man, and Powers has admitted "My wife would have her murdering her. But he said he motor-car and plenty of spending She succeeds in having Doug
did not know her
In his form letter Num- name. The money." reaching for the moon with a
police believe she was Dorothy ber One, written by hand, which he vengeance, but in the process she
Pressler, of Worcester,
widow, Mrs. Mas-addressed to the falls heavily for him too, and be-
sachusetts.
Eicher, he wrote! cause he didn't know how to see
"Death has taken my previous it in her eyes, is bound to tell
Powers' garage was built of wife from me, leaving me very him that she loves him t The
atout boards and sound-proof, ap lonely. I am longing for someone bout is therefore a draw. At less systems, and others will follow.parently, with a basement or to fill that empty space in my heart. least, they and all their friends A year ago there were less than dungeon which the self-confessed Women are the sweetest, the purest, think so. What Sir Horace | ten.
criminal used both as slaughter-the most unselfish part of the thinks about it did not matter.
house and matrimonial bureau.
"SPEEDWAY."
POLICE WIRELESS.
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Sixty cities in the United States are now equipped with police wire
BALO
A
And
A sound synchronised picture is the feature film now on the screen at the Star Theatre. Itecution abounds in thrills and amusing Lawbreakers who evade the local incidents, and provides good en-police and leave for other cltles tertainment. William Haines
now find that detalls of their crimes and Anita Page play the leading have preceded them. In many cases roles, while the others in the patrolmen, supplied with receiving cast render adequate support. apparatus, have been able to inter-
The story revolves about acept fugitives on the highway. motor racing track, and the am- For some inscrutable reason the bition of an old driver who, after authorities In Britain are always 17 years of trying, finally, painfully slow in accepting through the consideration of his utility of new ideas. For many matrimonial advertisements were ed with machine-guns and tear-gas adopted son, satisfies his heart's desire by winning a coveted lionour.
-
While the police authorities in
human race. They sing the melody Britain are talking about what are
of human life. Any man who has "High Pressure" Love Letters. obviously the best methods of catch-
experienced a mather's devotion, a ing motor highwaymen, thieves, and With seven victime
laid to wife's' self-sacrificing love, or burglare, the United States police Power's account, the police and the sweetheart's affection, knows this are putting these methods into ex-neighbours are still digging around is true. I have a small photo of
the garage and the site of the six-myself. May I send it?. roomed house which was owned by yours will be greatly appreciated. his wife until a few weeks ago, Do send it, please, and write me a when it was mysteriously burned note." to the ground.
The Intest charge against Powers A series of "high pressure" love is bigamy. Twelve months ago, it letters, systematically typed in is alleged, he married a woman at categories numbered from One to Clarksburg under the name of Ten, and a list of addresses of "pro- Cornelius Mathias, and this woman spects," some living in New York is still living.
This evening State troopers, arm-' and Brooklyn, and a batch of the
found in the underground office, bombs, were stationed around the stal the telephone at headquarters They convinced the police that gool, and a squad was posted out- and police stations, Bandits used Powers worked on a national scale, sido the prisoner's cell. motor-cars long before the police and they are investigating clues relating to the disappearance of a thought of them.
dozen women at least usually What about wireless? There is widows past middle
age with one police wireless station in Bri- moderate fortunes who were tired
Depicting the beauty spots of the One of the luckiest girls in the tain, and that is at New Scotland of a solitary life and pined for a world," is the way Maureen O'Sulli-Yard. It is used for Metropolitan quiet country home "with every country on postage stamps for ad- van, beautiful and charming little police purposes only, and its mes comfort and also an honest mau's vertising purposes is the latest Irish actress describes herself.
were the device hit upon by. the Japanese sages to the wireless-equipped Fly-love." These, in fact, Miss O'Sullivan, In pictures justing Squad cafe have brought about temptations which the wily "mar Government. The Minister of Rail- a trifle more than a year, already the arrest of some of the most dan- riage racketeer" offered them in ways in Tokyo is giving out a had played featured roles in four gerous criminals in the country. letter Number One. He clinched special issue of stamps in blocks of O' My The system could and should be the offer with letter Number Ten 25, showing the "beauty scenes of pictures for Fox, "Song
Nippon." extended to all the mobile police in of his matrimonial
Official Reviews.
"A CONNECTICUT YANKEE."
Heart," with John McCormack, "So This is London," with Will Rogers, "Just Imagine" with an all-star cast and "The Princess And The Plum ber" with Charles Farrell, when she asked for a short vacation.
years Scotland Yard refused to in-
series, which the 700 square miles controlled by was his last passionate word In the London police and to the rest "mail-order wooing." of the country.
The First Discovery.
JAPAN USES STAMPS TO ADVERTISE SCENES.
These include the Imperial Castle at Tokyo, the Nara Park, the Yome! Gate at Nikko, Lake Chuzenji, Mount Fuji and other tourist resorts, The stamps are unusually attractive examples of the lithographer's art.
REBATE FOR QUICK LUNCHERS.
As long as last April the County Chlef Constables recommended the The disappearance of Mrs. "If you will play the role of Home Office to set up a national Eicher, the widow of a silversmith, Alisande' Tn Will Rogers' starring wireless installation, by means of with a considerable aum in cash picture, "A Connecticut Yankee," which it would be possible to cir- and her children from Park Ridge you can have two months off, and culate the details of grave crimes last June was followed shortly after- a trip home to Ireland thrown in" to all mobile police squads.
wards by a letter from Quiet Dells she ad tald.
asking for the transfer of the wo The motto "Time is money" has man's bank account to her new been put to practical use in a res address in West Virginia. This taurant on the banks of the Seine, fed to a police Inquiry.
says Reater from Paris.
She fairly leaped at the chance. She already had played in one Will: Rogers's picture and had announced afterward that he was her favourite actor.
So the little Irish girl, who a little more than a year ago was just the daughter of a retired Irish army officer, with never a thought
For exceeding the twenty miles an hour speed limit in the Outer Circle, Regent's Park, the Marquis
Powers, who described himself as an engineer with an income derived
of Douglas and Clydesdale, who is from oil-wells, was a mysterious well known as an amateur boxer, character to the village folk of was at Marylebone Police Court Qulet Dells.. fined 405.
On the window appears the fol- lowing notice:
Ja "The price. of our luncheon
who 6.50 francs, but customers finish their lunch. before noon will The climax came on Friday, when only pay 5.75-france."
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UP
FATHER
DADDY, WHAT HE
THE MATTER 7
DO YOU KNOW THAT BELINDA 15.
LEAVIN'?
MAGGIE BANG TWICE YESTERDAY. THAT'S PROBABLY
THE ANSWER !
BELINDA-
DO YOU THINK I'M [SURELY YOU || PACKIN" DIS TRUNK
FOR ANAUSKément?
ISE LAVAN TO GIT
MARRIED!
ARE NOT LEAVIN'LIS
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SUPPORT YOU 7. DOENS HE LOVE
You?
1 DUNNO BOUT THE GUPPORTIN
BUT ME SURE DO
LOVE ME
HE REFUSED AN INVITATION TO A DO% FIGHT GO'S HE COULD
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