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Miss Lota Cheek, Who Has Won
Fame as a Member of the Win
ter Garden, Leaves Stage to
Marry. Groom’s Bridal Gift Is
Pierce-Arrow. Europe Will Be
Scene of Honeymoon.
By Ward Moorehouse in Atlanta
Journal.
On a Saturday night some weeks
ago the most beautiful member of
“The Dancing Girl Company,” then
playing at the Winter Garden (New
York), stopped beside the stage door
man’s chair as she started out of the
theater, extended a hand to the chair’s
occupant, and said: ‘
“Goodbye, Pop. Won’t be with you|
any more. Good luck.” |
#Quitting the show, Miss Lota?”
“Vou bet. This show and all the
other shows, Pop. Got enough of it.
Going into some other kind of busi
ness.”
Lota ‘Cheek, Broadway beauty and
native of Dawson, Ga. walked out
into the cool air of Seventh avenue.
The Winter Garden was to see no
more of her. In a day or two Broad
way learned the exact nature of the
“other kind of Business’™ that Lota
Cheek was going to take up. Her new
business is to be marriage, and her
new address a Jersey suburb.
Lota Cheek, who had come to
Broadway just the season before la
beled “the prettiest girl in New Eng
land,” was quitting the stage cold at
the very beginning of a career; she
was turning her back upon the glo
ries of Broadway, and was rejecting
an opportunity that comes seldom and
to but few. Right now, at the outset
of her career, and in the full bloom of
her vouth, she is ready to substitute
a Jersey bungalow for the glare and
glitter of Broadway. And just why?
Lota Cheek will not tell you.
Broadway All Tinsel.
“Broadway is all tinsel,” she told
the writer. “There's nothing to Broad
way but tinsel. Everybody finds that
out sooner.or later. I'm finding it out
sooner. I'm quitting Broadway be
fore Broadway quits me. It'll be bet
ter to feel that you're leaving of your
own accord and that you're not being
shoved out. Two vears of Broadway
have been fine and exciting, but they
have been enough.”
The man Lota Cheek is to marry
is “outside the profession,” and out
side of the profession goes Lota. The
marriage is to take place in June,
probably June 6th, and ' there'll be
many Georgia people present.
When Miss Cheek leit Dawson,
several years ago, she left with the
reputation of being a very pretty girl.
She kept that reputation when she
lived in Dothan, Ala., College Park
and Cincinnati. But when she went
to New England, art critics there saw
she was not only pretty, but beautful.
Miss Cheek reached Broadway in a
round-about way. First, she lived in
Dothan, Ala., after leaving Dawson,
Ga. Next she went to Atlanta and at
tended Cox college. . When she left
Cox college she went to Cincinnati.
Gradually she was moving northward,
hut not once realizing that her desti
nation was to be the celebrated play
house known as the Winter Garden,
which fronts on Broadway just north
of Fiftieth street. From Cincinnati
lota Cheek went to New England,
spending time here and there with
friends and relatives.
About the date that she was being
carried through the state of Massa
chusetts on a northbound train a
Boston newspaper came out with the
announcement that it was seeking the
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prettiest girl in the New England
states. A beauty contest, if you please.
Lota Cheek heard nothing of this, but
<ome iriend did, and to ‘the Boston
paper was mailed a photograph of
the girl irom Dawson. Some time
later, while in Maine, Miss Cheek
received a letter from the paper. With
a group of other contestants she had
been invited to Boston to meet the
judges in the contest.
To Boston went Lota Cheek, nev
er once dreaming that she was to be
the contest winner, but more than
cager to see what the thing was all
about, anyway. Her triumph was
swift and certain, With the other
contestants she was judged as to lace,
figure, manners, carriage, conversa
tion. Beauty .counted a lot, but the
other qualitics were to be considered.
In a short time the judges reached a
decision. - Loota Cheek was declared
the winner over thousands of con
testants, and with the honor of win
ning went $1,000" in gold.
Wins Beauty Contest.
. And something more went with it
too. News of the outcome of the’
‘beauty contest reached Broadway. It
aleo reached the executive offices of
the Shuberts in the Shubert theater
building. Broadway is ever on the
lookout for a pretty face, ever ready
to greet and applaud beauty. One cer
tain way to avoid the ante-room of
fice boy is to win a beauty contest
somewhere.
A Columbus, Ohio, girl was win
ner in such a competition at the At
lantic City pageant last fall; a Ne
braska girl had the same success out
in Nebraska some weeks ago,. and
Lota Cheek, of Dawson, Ga., was ac
claimed for her beauty in New Eng
land. She didn't have to come and
pound on the Broadway gate; Broad
way heard she was outside and sent
to meet her.
It was Jake Shubert who did the
actual sending. He took one look at
the news item of the New England
contest and another at the photo
graph of the contest winner. A Shu
bert representative took a train to
Boston, and ILota Cheek was offered
a job on Broadway. She didn’t take
it right then. Things had been hap
pening to her so fast that she didn’t
know just what to do or what to say.
CAMPAIGN IN TERRELL, WEB
STER AND STEWART COUN
TIES WILL BEGIN 11TH.
The Baptist Summerhil-l Associa
tion’s three weeks program, a sched
ule of which was published in The
News, will begin out from Weston,
Lumpkin and' Dawsen on Monday,
June 11th, and be continued through
out the churches of the association for
three weeks.
As may have been read in the pub
lished schedule, the first week’s ser
vices will be out from Dawson; the
second week will be out from Weston
and the third week will be out from
Lumpkin.
On the first Sunday in July, which
will be the first day, an associational
rally will be held.in Richland all day.
Dinner will be served on the grounds
and a big time is anticipated. All of
the churches of the Summerhill As
sociation are looking forward to the
occasion with much interest and
pleasure.
FLOOD OF POISON GAS FOR
BIG RATTLESNAKE DEN
Experiment to Be Tried by Chemical
War Service in Texas Socn.
Mustard gas, phosgene and cholrine,
deadly accompaniments of war, will
be turned upon large dens of rattle
snakes in the vicinity of San Marcos,
Texas within the next few weeks.
This announcement was made by
Major George M. Halloran, chemical
warfare officer of the Eighth corps
area, Fort Sam Houston, who will
direct the use of gases. The experi
ment is to be made by special order
of the chief of medical warfare at
Washington.
THE FLY IS AN INTELLIGENT
AND QUICK THINKER
The ordinary house fly is reputed
to be the cleverest of insects, its in
telligence surpassing that of the ant
and the bee. An authority asserts that
it can think 100 times quicker than a
man.
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MENTHOLATUM
cools and soothes
the parched skin,
She wanted time to think it over.
Time was granted.
She thought it over all the way
south and she thought it over in Daw
son for some weeks, and then she la
ter returned to this town her mind
was made up. A yellow taxi to the
'Shubert offices, a conference, and a
contract—that was all. lota Cheek
'was on Broadway, due to be pro
claimed as all the new beauties are
proclaimed. She made her debut in
“Make It Snappy,’ at the Winter
Garden, a piece in which Eddie Kan
tor was starred.
The season in “Make It Snappy”
was an enjoyable one, and Lota
Cheek looked forward to her second
New York season, but before “The
Dancing Girl” got under way she met
the man “outside the profession,” the
man who sold her on the Jersey bun
galow idea, and the man who helped
to convince her that Broadway is all
tinsel. Shortly after that she with
drew from the cast of “The Dancing
Girl”? before it completed its New
York run.
Miss Cheek’s wedding is to take
place at the Little Church Around
the Corner. Maybe Broadway will be
well represented at the wedding.
Maybe not. But it's certain that Old
Pop, the stage doorman at the Win
ter Garden, and all Miss Cheek’s Win
ter Garden associates will be wishing
her all the happiness in the world, for
the Winter Garden hasn’t been the
same since she leit it.
1t is said along the street that the
man this Georgia girl is marrying has
money to burn. At any rate, it is
known that he has given her a Pierce-
Arrow for a wedding present, and that
he is going to take her to Monte
Carlo and points East on a honey
moon. Which is not so bad. And when
they come back and get the Jersey
bungalow started and have a real
home in order there’s gding to be a
big party over in Jersey for the show
people of the Great White Way. It
will be a party at which Lota Cheek
and her husband will be host and
hostess to ILota's theatrical friends.
No matter what Lota Cheek may
think of Broadway itself, she feels
now and always will feel that the peo
ple of Broadway—the show people—
are the finest frienids that one can
have in the world.
SONIA, SHE OF RED LIPS AND
FLASHING EYES, FINDS LIFE
TO BE AN ILLUSION.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—The body of
a Slav girl whom New York knew
only as Sonia was lowered yester
day into a grave in a little cemetery
on Long Island. Half a dozen people
who knew neither her last name nor
cared gathered around the fresh earth
as the sexton threw in clods of dirt in
accompaniment to the ‘“ashes to ash
es” of the burial ritual.
New York opaid little attention to
the passing of Sonia, yet in her death
she threw back the curtain from the
soul of Greenwich Village and expos
ed it to the world in all the bare and
ugly outline of its superficiality. Ex
ploited for years as the fruiting
ground for camaraderie—where the
struggling and the wealthy might
meet on common ground and drink
at Pierian wells, friends all—the vil
lage has been revealed as a heartless
exploiter. ¥
She Came From “Nowhere.”
Sonia came ‘from nobody knows
where to a little furnished hall room
back 10 years ago. Somebody ‘“‘staked”
her to a tray of cigarettes. She quick
ly caught up the spirit of the village
and became its typification to the out
side world. Nightly in her gaudy cos
tume she passed when revel was at
its height through the Mad Hatter’s,
Vagabondia, the Red Head and all
those places with fantastic names,
selling her cigarettes, stopping to joke
with a customer and moving on at the
beck of another. The young boy from
the department store who punched his
time clock in the morning and read
Freud at night at a corner table and
the author who had attained success
were alike to Sonia. That was the
spirit of the village to her.
Heart Disease Grips Her.
Seven months ago Sonia faded out
of the Village picture. A heart disease
gripped her and she lay on a trundled
bed in an ill-furnished room. The Vil
lage might have remarked her pass
age but nobody sought her out. Pa
trons of the Mad Hatter bought their
cigarettes elsewhere. It remained for
Capt. Rheba Crawford, then of the
Salvation Army, to find Sonia and
have her removed to the charity ward
of a hospital. A wealthy woman—not
of the Village—gave her a private
room and a nurse.
Sonia died last week. On her cher
ry-red lips was the question, “Why
don’t they come? Why don't they
come?”
.
Explorer Declares Arctic
. .
Affords Mighty Empire
Pathfinder in Canadian Employ Seeks
British Aid to Colonize Far North.
LONDON. —A mighty empire,
rich in mineral resources and with a
salubrious, healthiul climate, lies in
the Arctic, ready to be peopled, de
clared Vilhjalmar Stefansson, explor
er, who arrived here today to attempt
to persuade the British Empire to de
velop its territory in the Far North.
Stefansson_has long been in the em
ploy of the Canadian government as
explorer and pathfinder.
The “undreamed empire of tomor
row lies in the Arctic,” said Stefans
son. “Any white man can live in com
fort in 90 '‘per cent of the territory.
The Arctic regions are not desolate
and frigid, but highly habitable. It is
a healthy place and would be an in
calculable asset to the British Em
pire.”
Chamberlain’s Colic and Diarrhr:a
Remedy.
Every family should keep this prep
aration at hand during the hot of the
summer months. It is almost sure to
be needed and when that time comes
is worth many times its cost. Buy it
now.—adv.
THE DAWSON NEWS
GOVERNMENT REPORTS
1,655,000 GOATS IN TEXAS
Sprang From Small Herd Bought of
Colonel Peters in Atlanta. -
AUSTIN, Texas.—That the Ango
ra goat and mohair industry in Texas
is in a thriving condition is shown by
a statement by H. H. Schutz, live
stock statistician of the bureau of ag
ricultural economics of the United
States department of agriculture. He
says: &
“From the small beginning made
when Dr. J.- B. Davis imported a few
head of Angora goats into South
Carolina in 1849 and when Col. W.
H. Haupt, of Haynes county, brought
the pure bread herd of Col. Richard
Peters, of Atlanta, to Texas, in 1858,
the industry has grown, until today it
represents approximately ' 1,655,000
head in Texas alone. According to the
census figures, the number of goats
in the United States has increased 85
per cent and in Texas 180 per cent
during the last 20 vears.”
Government Issues First
~ Cotton Report of Season
General Condition Given as 71 Per
Cent. Georgia 65 Per Cent.
Condition of the cotton crop on
May 25 was 71 per cent of a normal
compared with 69.6 a year ago, 66.0
in 1921 and 73.6, the average May 25
condition for the last ten years, the
department of agriculture announces
in its first cotton report of the season.
Condition® May 25 by states follows:
Virginia, 79; North Carolina 77; South
Carolina 64; Georgia 65; Florida 87;
Alabama 70; Mississipi 70; Louisiana
68; Texas 77; Arkansas 66; Tennes
see 70; Missouri 54; Oklahoma 63;
California 93; Arizona 92; all other
state 90.
A little piece of dried orange peel
in the tea canister gives the tea a
pleasant and uncommon flavor.
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When your back is sore and lame
or lumbago, sciatica or rheumatism
has you stiffened up, don’t suffer! Get
a small trial bottle of old; honest “St.
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little in your hand and rub it right
on your aching back, and by the time
you count fifty, the soreness and lame
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Don’t stay crippled! This soothing,
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once. It takes the pain right out and
ends the misery. It is magical, yet
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Nothing else stops lumbago, sciatica,
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PIPE RUM FROM STORAGE.
Raiders cut a hole in the wall of a
government liquor warehouse at Mil
dred, Pa., and siphoned out $90,000
worth of whisfy. Motor trucks cart
ed away the loot.
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Shenff’s Sale.
GEORGIA, Terrell County.—Will
be sold, at the court house door in
said. county, on the first Tuesday in
July, 1923, within the legal hours for
sale to the highest bidder for cash,
the following described real estate:
The life estate and interest in and
to that house and lot in Sasser, Ter
rell county, Georgia on which Mrs.
Sallie Coxwell lived in June 1916; and
also sixty acres of land, more or less,
lying and heing in the third district
of Terrell county, Georgia, and known
as the “Kidd place.”
Said life estate in and to the prop
erty above described is levied on and
will be sold to satisfy an execution
issued from the City Court of Lees
burg; Georgia, in favor of Swift &
Company, against Mrs. J. S. More
land as principal, and J. S. Moreland
as endorser. Tenants in possession
notified. This June 4, 1923.
E. T..WOODS, :Sheriff, -Terrell
County Georgia.
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