Mount Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 122, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 9, 1930 Page: 2 of 4
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MT. PLEASANT DAILY TIMES SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1930.
AUGUST IS HERE
Summer will soon be (tone. Get your hair
in good condition for Fall and a new Perm-
anent.
Arnoil Steamer and specially prepared oils
is what you need. Try one and be convinced.
Vaughan’s Beauty Parlor has made a rep-
utation over this part of the State for beau-
tiful PERMANENTS—Six cmd Ten Dollars
Vaughan Beauty Parlor
The place where you find the newest things
first.
Electric Fan* to close the pores; Nail Floss to clean the nails: Auto
Caps to hold ihe hair while driving, and other things as soon as they
are out.
Phone 48 Mrs.-Vaughan, Prop.
JtustifMK
by Arthur Brisbane
The Unimaginable
A Really Big Citv
V. hut’s Wrong With Us?
Meden Agan, and Ede.rle
Britain’s airship R-100, greate.U
that ever rose into the air, has safe-
ly crossed the Atlantic and arrived at
Montreal, with thirty-seven crew and
seven passengers. The R-100, faster
than the Graf Zeppelin, represents
Britain's determination to rule the
ocean of air, as for centuries she has
ruled the ocean of water, regardless
of expense.
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A TITUS
A HARASSED INDUSTRY
Women Enchanted
By Romantic King
Dennis King, who has been hailed
as the talking-singing screen’s new-
est apostle of romanticism, is above
all, a gentleman.
While he was working on the pro-
duction of “The Vagabond King” at
was asked to tell his ideal of woman
kind.
“First of all,” said the famous
Broadway musical comedy singer,
“she must be a blonde—that is she
must have a blonde personality.
Many brunettes have it.”
those words. Blondes and brunettes
Of all the essential industries, in-
cluding agriculture, that hau had
problems to contend with, none has
been mere harassed than has oil.
While benefited . h\ conservation
measures that have served to alleviate
the menace of over-production of
crude oil. the petroleum industry is
now faced with an excessive gasoline
supply. Recently prices on the Pa-
cific coast were the lowest on reerrd
and when state gasoline taxes, which
amounted to three to four cents :t
gallon, were deducted from a total
gas price ranging from eight to
twelve cents, the surplus remaining
was less in many instances than the
profit which the local dealers claims
is necessary to operate his pump.
fcmporaril>, the motorist may hen- alike will find flattery in them,
efit, but the losses which result to And it is well that King’s opinion
any industry from such a demoratiz- js s0 all-incl rive, for he is going to
W*®- situation, are greater than tern- j.ain thousands of admirers among
porary benefits. the v>lon<les and brunettes before his
e have witnessed the evils of ov- great picture “The VagaObnd King”
?r ■uf-t' Qc^’or* rn agriculture through many weeks old. Women just seem
inability to co-ordinate supply with ,t0 “go* for” this dashing, romantic
^eman — ow prices for crops, re- young lyric actor in a great big way.
b13' to “The Vagabond King” Dennis!
ftinf 1<*S* of farm takeS. King has a blonde leading lady, Fhr
oil industry js .Teimetfe MacDonald, the dazzling
will bring the same damaging results charmer of Broadway musical comedy
to t e public, foi there is little fun- fame, who sang her way into the
amenta ciffeience between the pro- hearts of film enthusiasts everywhere
auction of oil and the production of with her splendid portrayal of the
wheat. Stabilizing policies are es- role of Queen Louise in Maurice Che-
for botli industry and agricul- valier’s “The Love Parade.”
“The Vagabond King” is based on
A few years ago me average man
could not have imagined that. Now
that it has happened, not one in a
hundred realizes what it means.
Long after steam railroads were
operating successfully in England,
wise men, in and out of parliament,
said the locomotive could not possibly
be a success. i
Many equally “wise” still think
that “flying, never can be practical.”,
Afl
I SATURDAY
TODAY
ONLY
PAT H ^Present*
diyss A NEW BRAND OF WESTERN
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MY GUN
-ah GEORGE DURYEA SAU.Y STARR ROBERT EDESOP
HE MORAN- MONA RAY- TON H.FMUANE ■ HARK NvFARlANE
KA*W WATSON HARRY WOODS AND AM CYMA* AND HIS BAND
mhe$ Picture
WESTERN whoopee—a monumental picture comedy of the wi
°pen spaces—a rodeo in a gorgeous setting—a production as refres
ing as it its novel and thrilling.
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New York City’s population is fixed
at 6,959,195. It will pass 7,000,000 in
a few months.
Manhattan Island, which until re-
cently was all of New York, has lost
18.6 per cent in ten years. This is
made up by gains in the outlying bor
Paramount’s Hollywood studio, King | ousrhs, 130.1 per cent in Queens, 28.6
How long it will last nobody knows.
Every little while something re-
minds you of two words that the wise
Greeks wrote above their temple
doors, “Meden Agan,” meaning “Shun
Excess.”
Aristotle put it almost as briefly,
“Not too much, not too little.”
tariff.
For the first time a woman is
cd to the Canadian parliament,
move that wanted to be elected
per cent in
the Bronx.
Turkish territory was invad
savage tribesmen coming out o
sia. Kemal Pasha threw his
into Persio to get them and
! thousands of men.
me "Meden Agan” re- To Persia's demand for da
for invasion” Kemal replies, 1
Brooklyn,* 73 per cent in | This tjme
j minder comes from Gertrude Ederle,
who swam the English channel, amaz- J and get the damages.”
Queens i probably the fastest j ;nff the world
i growing big place in the world. Man-
j hattan still holds the pocket.hook.
nothin, could have hocu « typi- i A— lZ j*» *“ ^^hanncl.
rally chivalrous of Dennis King than j an 0Ver the nation come to spend
four years ago. She
lias become almost entirely deaf as j
the result of the fourteen hours spent '•
OPERETTA ON THE SC11EL.,
One of the most successful operet-
tas of recent years, the glamorous
their monev. between Fourteenth and i Tho “outboard motor” idea’ us0(1! “Thc Vagabond King” has been con-
Fifty-ninth streets, to say nothing of j fov V™™ ™ little, boats, is success-1 verted to the majestic magnitude of
what they
street.
spend downtown in
Wall : applied to the air.
i Myrten Johnson, from Oakland’s
___ | field, in a glider with a thirty horse-
When you are traveling serenely in'P°wer eT,*pin'e attacbed’ went u'’ 14;‘
an express train and it stops suddenly ! 600 feet’ Bo>’s and V™"* ,men wlU
you put your head out of the window | want to experiinent with that.
to look, or you ask the ' conductor, j
V> hat i-; the matter*/” i John MacDonald years ago swore
We were all traveling in the pros* | that Tom Mooney and Killings were
the talking screen and will lie seen
and hearu at the Titus Theatre for
2 days, beginning Sunday. Dennis
King, who established the original
thrilling title role, will be seen and
heard in the same part in the picture,
which i« all singing, talking and 100
percent Technicolor.
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IT’LL GO BACK
! the operetta of the same name which
! ran for more than a season on Broad-
| way. The original Rudolph Friml
! songs will be heard again when the
! picture comes to the Titus Theatre
l Sunday.
Others in support of Dennis King
in the picture are Warner Oland,
He—Your lipstick is coming off. '
She—No it isn’t.
He—I’m sure it -is.
She—I’m sure it isn’t.
He—Listen here-^-any. time I get ...
this close to a girl’s lips, her lipstick . Q. P. Heggie and Lillian Roth', and
is coming, off. I unch. j hundreds of extras who were chosen
———— . for their roles on the basis of their
T S SPORT j ability not alone to act but also on
. . | Hvo basis of their accomplishments as
it is Detng whispered around that j singers.
you and your husband are not getting i ________
along very well.” j
“Nonsense. We did have some wordrf
and I shot at him a couple of times,
but that is as far as it went.”—Ex.
purity ekpfesY train, it stopped with | r«sponsil>le for a 'bomb that destroyed SINGING FAVORITE HERE SOON
a jolt last October and everybody is | many lives. Now he swears his orig-
still asking, “What is the matter?”! inai testimony was perjury. If he
__ j is tolling the truth this time, Mooney
Adolph Zukor, an intelligent Amur- and Billings will, oi' course, be set
ican business man, who retains his ca-1 free.
pacit.y to keep cool and think clearly ! How arc the seven justices oi ( all-
even when business is not so good,
says:
“Fo rone thing, we had lost ouv
heads. We began to think about a
dollar as wo ought to think about a
25-cent piece.
“After a while we shall learn what
money is, what thrift and common
sense mean. Then we shall bo better
off than we ever were.
“Nothing better than this so-called
‘slump’ could have happened to us.
fomia’s .Supreme Court to know
Jenrteil'o MacDonald, Broadway
musical comedy prima donna who
made her debut in Maurice Cheva-
lier’;.; all-talking and singing romance,
“The Love Parade,” will be seen and
heard in her second musical romance
whether MacDonald was lying then, production of the audible screen, when
or is lying now? Knowledge of hu- “The Vagabond King,” starring Den,
man nature may help. One thing is nis King, comes to the. Titus 'Theafre
certain, MacDonald comjtted perjury, Sunday,
then or now.. Tho governor and the
judges might well hesitate to keep
men in jail on his testimony.
Canada’s election surprised many
of our friends in the north.
Mackenzie King, who has been
Bridge Party
Mrs. Josh Hodge entertained the
, Thursday Bridge Club Friday uftev-
] noon with two tables of bridge.
j Brilliant zinnias added their color to
A /./.,, T „ , , „ J the lovely rooms. Mrs. Herbert Ham-
A constant demand for trained of- ]in can.k>d off
fice workers comes to us through our ; delicious icc
OVERC OME HARD TIMES
organized Employment Department.
Mail Coupon to Draughnn’s College,
Dallas, Texas, today for list of re-
cent positions filled, showing the op-
portunities in business for you. If
lack of money is a draw-back, write
full particulars for helpful
tions.
Name ......... .....
Address ................................
high score prize. A
cource was served the
following: Mines. Maurice McCarty,
Herbert Hamlin, Ruth Ferguson,
Clyde Taylor, Claude Mason, Jim
Witt, Mathews and Miss Rose Laza-
rus.
“For my part, l was never more prime minister for twelve, years,, lost
optimistic in my life.” j the election to a Conservative, a'law-
--- ( ycr named Bennett.
Mr. Zuker, of course speaks sin- j King, educated at Harvard, was al-
cerely and his optimism is justified.; ways on friendly terms with the llnit-
This country needed a lesson and' ed States. Perhaps his defeat means
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Important deposits ’of marigattese
have been discovered in Morocco and
their development has been begijn 1^.
Fvencli interests with a view to mak-
ing France independent of imports.
is having it.
j that Canada doesn’t like ouv new
Relieves a Headache or Neuralgia in
30 minutes, checks a Cold the first
day, and checks Malaria in three days.
666 Also in Tablets.
What Chicagoans Do When the Mercury Coes up
sUggOS-
Th- United States is the world’s
( greatest producer of toy balloons, ex-
porting them to the value of about
j $800,000 annually in addition to
i plying its domestic demand.
sup-
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