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...Witch Of Salem tells of those fearsome days in stern Massachusetts Colony in the year 1692, when religious fervor sometimes mounted to fanaticism, goaded honest people to the ugly business of hanging human beings suspected of witchcraft. (This was more really indigenous to American ancestry than plots about Indians or Creoles.)* Sheila Meloy (Irene Pavloska) to win the indifferent heart of Arnold Talbot (Charles Hackett), accuses the young man's Puritan sweetheart, Claris Willoughby (Eide Norena) of being possessed. Her evidence: a peculiar birthmark. At the very last minute, the little Irish girl repents, averts a cruel execution...
...program will be almost the same as the one given at Salem on November 26, opening with the martial strains of the "Second Regiment March of Connecticut", rendered by the Banjo Club, The Mandolin Club offers among other numbers Delibes' "Intermezzo from Naila" and "The Song of the Volga Boatmen." The Vocal Club will render the famous "Drinking Song" from the "Student Prince", "In an Old-Fashioned Town", and a medley of songs of the gay nineties...
Tonight at 8 o'clock in the Y. M. C. A. building in Salem, the University Instrumental Clubs will give their first concert of the year independent of other organization. The Gold Coast Orchestra, the Pierian Sodalty, and the Banjo and Mandolin Clubs composing the entire organization of the clubs, will take part...
...North Carolina has risen into a mountain of industrial pride, where cotton is transformed into sheets and pillowcases, where tobacco is fed into billions of cigaret papers, where skyscrapers in Winston-Salem and Greensboro grow fast. Virginia retains much of its old aristocracy. Industry progresses along with female academies. South Carolina seems to have become the "valley." Charleston, which many times defied the nation, is now content with a less vigorous aristocracy. But the real change in South Carolina has come back of the tidewater where famed Ben Tillman led a revolt of the agrarians and the "poor whites...
...start, a leisurely lunch somewhere along the road, an arrival about dusk. If, on the other hand, you happened to be one Harry Hartz of Los Angeles, you would allow 1 hour, 37 minutes, 21.25 seconds; this speed, a new world's record, he made last week at Salem...