December 9, 1949 (8 pages)

Ly) Ushered in The grand opening of the Cedar theatre on Broad street tonight will usher in tainment in Nevada City. Ralph Achey, resident manager, announced the doors will open at 6:30 o’clock and a short dedication program will be held at 7 o’clock followed by the presentation of the late film, “Everybody Does It,” starring Linda Darnell and Paul Douglas. Officials of the T. and D. the theatre and city dignitaries will participate in the program, which will be emceed by Jack Cartwright. Mayor Arthur B. Innis is? scheduled to cut a ribbon stretched across the lobby and open the theatre to the public. Achey announced there will be no increase in prices for opening night. Standard prices to prevail until further notice are loges, 80c; general, 60c; students, 50c; children, 20c. Matinees will be held Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. Following Innis’’ severance of the restraining ribbon Cartwright is scheduled to introduce Verne Taylor, general manager; Fred Naify, district manager; Jack Keegan, Nevada district manager; Achey, resident manager, and Edward Tophan, superintendent of construction. : Keegan will introduce and pay tribute to William V. Tamblyn and George H. Calanan, former operators of the Broadway theatre, Achey announced as house staff: Vern Sandow, projectionist; Ernest Young, assistant projectionist; Alma Marsh, cashier; Richard Atkinson, doorman; Adeline Veale, head usherette; Lorene Ward, Ardell Eddy and Mayme Filler, usherettes; and Blanche Silva, candy bar attendant. The ghosts of countless great names of the past century of the drama will no doubt haunt the ancient building tonight as it begins the second hundred years. Mark. Twain, James Stark H. A. Warwick and many lesser lights trod the stage of early. day Nevada City theatres. The present building rose from the ashes of the last great fire of 1863 and construction started March 15, 1865. The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln delayed construction as the entire . city took time out to mourn the Civil war leader but construction finally started again and the ex‘terior was completed June 29, 1865. The company ran out of funds to furnish the interior. A great ball given that night by the Nevada Quadrille band at which entrance was $5 a head and $1,000 was raised to finish the job. The Transcript of that day said the theatre was decorated with flags and evergreen and 96 gas burners’ gave as brilliant light as the noon-day sun. Three hundred persons danced until dawn. The interior was completed and the first presentation, a burlesque and comedy opened the show palace Sept. 12, 1865. Dan Setchell and the Worrell Sisters—-Sophie, Irene and little Jennie—were the performers. The first presentation was “Ici on Parle Francaise.” Stage Manager W. Stephenson led community singing of “Bless Me, Father, Let Me Go.” The performers completed the evening with two burlesque pieces, “John Jones of the War Office,’ and “The Invisible Prince.” Admission was a dollar. T. Maguire was manager, J. S. Fallon was treasurer, and F. Schreiner was orchestra leader. John Cashin, partner of the butcher firm of Cashin & Davis, was president of the company that built the theatre in 1865. James Monro, another butcher, and W. C. Stiles of the Stiles, Planing Mill, were officers of: the company. The earliest entertainment of Nevada City was no doubt rough sports, fisticuffs and an o¢casional tent show. Fandango halls by Darnell the second century of enterJr. Enterprises, operators of \RALPH ACHEY Resident Manager were reportedly never as popular here as in the southern mines. Hamlet Davis provided a reading room on the second floor of his two story building on Broad and Pine during the summer of 1850. Dramatic. hall was opened. here in 1851 and several dramatic troupes performed there. . built in the fall of 1851 at the . foot of Main street but only lastThe Jenny Lind theatre was, EDAR OP Second Local Century Of Dramatic Art to Be % Pyare i aided dh ms NEVADA CITY (Nevada County) CALIFORNIA Friday, December 9, 1949 Volume 22, No. 66 . ed 15 weeks befort it washed . down Deer creek during: a flash . . flood. Emma Nevada, Edwin Booth, . vada City in 1852-53 but failed hall on Main street in 1853. The building was destroyed by fire . in June, 1856, with Edwin Booth . slated to open the night of the . fire. Frisbie and a partner named . Bain built the Nevada theatre ont the site of the Concert hall and it opened Dec. 1, 1856, with H. A. Warwick starring in “The Merchant of. Venice.” The theatre was destroyed in the May, 1858, fire. The Metropolitan: theatre appeared four months later near the Union hotel and four years was Nevada City’s only theatre. The Metropolitan was destroyed in the city’s last great fire of November, 1863. Following its construction at the end of the Civil war.the Nevada theatre was the showhouse of the city for decades. In 1907 a group of 12 local men led by William V. Tamblyn and George H. Calanan formed a company, took over the old Henessey livery stable on the site of the Alpha Hardware store, made it over into @ picture house and called it the Broadway. For several years they showed two-reelers. With the growth of the motion picture industry and the inauguration of “story” pictures the company would rent the Nevada for big pictures. Tamblyn recalls that one of the first big films was ‘The Spoilers” starring William Farnum which appeared about 1912. In 1923 the group purchased the Nevada, remodeled and operated it until 1937 when it was sold to the T. & D. Jr. Enterprises. DISTRICT DEPUTY GRAND EXALTED RULER HERE Henry J., Bouillard, Redding, district deputy grand exalted ruler of Elks, made his official visit here last night. Turkey sandwiches were served. The Cedar theatre, pictured above, will open ng Pe we Sunes “ELECTION ‘ OF OFFICERS SCHEDULED AT TUESDAY MEETING OF CHAMBER Election of officers will be the principal matter of business at Tuesday evening’s meeting of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce-in city hall. Candidates--nominated atthe November meeting were president: I. C. Bell. Stan Halls, Ray Spickelmier, Milt Anderson, Ray Strange, liam J. Wasley. Threé have been nominated for vice president: I. C. Bell, George Halstead and Angus -Fox. For board of directors: Paul J. Bergemann, Milt Anderson, Ken Wray, O. J. Melton, Sid Alderson, Martin Spangler, Larry Mayworm, William Novak, Harry Peart, William C. Briggs, Merrill Colvin, Frank Duffy, Charles Hilpert and Max Flindat. Also up for possible discussion and study will be the proposed prison labor camp which was disthe board of directors. Directors voiced the: opinion the Nevada county board of supervisors acted hastily in opposing the proposal of the department of corrections establishing @ camp in this county. The directors instructed Secretary H. F. Sofge to write Congressman Clair Engle and Senator Sheridan Downey urging the construction of a federal building in Nevada City. Sofge was also instructed to write a letter to the main offices of Western Union telegraph company protesting proposed closing of the local office. TWO NEW. NOTARIES Secretary of State Frank M. of original notary public commissions to Thelma A. Jackson, 231 Commercial St., and Gordon H. Tryon, 107 Prospect St. . Mosco Smart and Wilcussed at Tuesday’s meeting of’ Jordan today announced issuance ! ‘DEPUTIES STOP ESCAPE TRY BY JAIL INMATES . Alert action by the staff of the . Nevacia county sheriff’s office . following a grapevine tip nipped a planned break for freedom by seven prisoners in’ the county jail Friday evening. . An inspection at 7 o’clock re. vealed the men had pried a large steel plate from the wall by using an iron bar from one of the cell bunks, (1 Sheriff RicHard W. Hoskins reported the plate had been spot welded on the wall. Hoskins said that had the prisoners been successful in getting from the cell they could possibly have made their way from the courthouse building through a skylight. The sheriff’s office declined to name the prisoner who gave the tip or name the prisoners involved in the break attempt. TWO-CENT STAMP IS. REQUIRED ON UNSEALED CHRISTMAS GREETINGS William J. Wasley, Nevada City postmaster, warned this . morning that 14%-cent stamps are obsolete for single postage use in the U. S.; and as a result cannot be used to prepay postage on unsealed Christmas cards. Wasley recommends use of the first class rate to avoid disap. pointment, obtain best service including free forwarding if addressee has moved, or return if undeliverable and use of personal . messages on card. Wasley said the third class rate = ‘ture rier by Mayor A. Edwin Booth appeared in Ne-; this evening with the snipping of a ribbon barcentury of dramatic art to Nevada City. on unsealed printed greeting . cards is. now two cents. B. Innis, to usher in the second FRANK TIPPS ASKS FOR ACCOUNTING OF MOTOR FIRM BOOKS: RECEIVER Frank Tipps, Grass Valley, yesterday filed a complaint against M. R. Bickham, asking for accounting after dissolution of a partnership, injunction pendente lite, and appointment of_receiver. The two men entered into partnership Jan. 1, 1947, to operate a Grass Valley motor firm under . ; the name of Partridge Motors. A dissolution agreement was made Aug. 6, 1949. In the complaint filed yesterday Tipps states the partnership employed Charles Hillyer as a bookkeeper. Tipps charges Hillyer and the defendant entered into a conspiracy whereby Hillyer would make false entries in the partnership’s books. A certified public accountaint was employed .to audit the books and on Aug. 6 announced books were in such condition he was unable to complete an audit. Tipps stated on dissolution date he was paid $1,000 cash by defendant and took delivery of a 1949 Hudson. The plaintiff declared Bickham refuses to make an accounting of the partnership. The plaintiff asks agreement of Aug. 6, 1949, be declared nujl and void and cancell” bill of sale in escrow; that an accounting be made by Bickham; that property of business Tipps states has assets of $50,000, be sold and surplus be divided between plaintiff and defendant; and that a receiver for the business be appointed. PLEADS GUILTY — E. R. Schroeder entered’ plea of guilty in superior court on five counts of issuing bad checks. Motion for probation was made by Lynne Kelly, court-appointed attorney. Superior Judge James Snell set Monday for passing of sentence. « TRINITY RECTOR HITS WRANGLING IN COMMUNITY Rev. Max L. Christensen, rector of Trinity Episcopal church, invited to. speak before Friday’s meeting of the Nevada’ City EleMentary Parent-Teachers association, stood up before the group and opened his remarks “with, “I see my subject is Thanksgiving Just Past and Christmas Is Ahedd. How can a man speak of such a subject?” Then he calmly dropped a bombshell. Rev. Christensen criticised the association’s attempt to ban certain motion pictures and comic books, and sharply scored wrangling and strife that has recently gripped the board of supervisors, the city council and school board. He urged the organization to follow a constructive plan and to place emphasis on programs that build beneficial forces, rather than conduct campaigns of destruction. . : He roundly scored parents with the observation that “Children are a home responsibility and the responsibility should not be shoved to church and-school.” Rev. Christensen charged the local school policy allows children to obtain diplomas that are not earned and laid some of that blame on parents by over shielding and demanding promotion of their children. Lloyd -Geist, principal of the elementary school, briefly. outlined present teaching and grading methods under which report ecards carry marks which are an indication of a child’s effort in view of his ability. Geist pointed out that a student of moderate intelligence who made a great effort could receive a\higher grade than a brilliant student who loafed. A round table discussion developed the difference of this modern method as compared to the outdated practice under which a highly intelligent child could loaf his way from one class to another and graduate with honors. The speaker pointed out that modern school methods placed a new burden on teachers who must consider each child individually and mark them according to effort and capability. More than eighty parents and teachers attended the meeting presided over by Mrs. Arnold Jackson, president of the association. CITY COUNCIL OKEYS NEW FIRE EQUIPMENT City council last night approved expenditure of $25,000 for a new fire engine and the installation of additional fire hydrants and alarm boxes. Funds to finance the additional equipment will be financed by a $25,000 addition to the proposed sewage bond issue expected to exceed $100,000. Fire Chief Ted Sigourney said the additional facilities would bring a sharp reduction in the city’s basic fire insurance rates. _ The Weather Fred Bush, observer high low Friday, Deer? aos 63 30 Saturday, Dec. 3 .. 60 27 Sunday, Dec. 4 ... 59 32 Monday, Dec. 5 ... 64 36 Tuesday, Dec. 6 .. 59 32 Wednesday, Dec. 7 . 50 37 Thursday, Dec. 8 .. 50 ~~° 30 Precipitation: Dec. 5, .42; Dec.* 7.03; : A welding torch was used to remove a tire from a Sierra county truck last week in Downieville. Investigation revealed the tire had never been removed in 11 years since the truck was purchased. : -

Ly) Ushered in The grand opening of the Cedar theatre on Broad street tonight will usher in tainment in Nevada City. Ralph Achey, resident manager, announced the doors will open at 6:30 o’clock and a short dedication program will be held at 7 o’clock followed by the presentation of the late film, “Everybody Does It,” starring Linda Darnell and Paul Douglas. Officials of the T. and D. the theatre and city dignitaries will participate in the program, which will be emceed by Jack Cartwright. Mayor Arthur B. Innis is? scheduled to cut a ribbon stretched across the lobby and open the theatre to the public. Achey announced there will be no increase in prices for opening night. Standard prices to prevail until further notice are loges, 80c; general, 60c; students, 50c; children, 20c. Matinees will be held Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. Following Innis’’ severance of the restraining ribbon Cartwright is scheduled to introduce Verne Taylor, general manager; Fred Naify, district manager; Jack Keegan, Nevada district manager; Achey, resident manager, and Edward Tophan, superintendent of construction. : Keegan will introduce and pay tribute to William V. Tamblyn and George H. Calanan, former operators of the Broadway theatre, Achey announced as house staff: Vern Sandow, projectionist; Ernest Young, assistant projectionist; Alma Marsh, cashier; Richard Atkinson, doorman; Adeline Veale, head usherette; Lorene Ward, Ardell Eddy and Mayme Filler, usherettes; and Blanche Silva, candy bar attendant. The ghosts of countless great names of the past century of the drama will no doubt haunt the ancient building tonight as it begins the second hundred years. Mark. Twain, James Stark H. A. Warwick and many lesser lights trod the stage of early. day Nevada City theatres. The present building rose from the ashes of the last great fire of 1863 and construction started March 15, 1865. The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln delayed construction as the entire . city took time out to mourn the Civil war leader but construction finally started again and the ex‘terior was completed June 29, 1865. The company ran out of funds to furnish the interior. A great ball given that night by the Nevada Quadrille band at which entrance was $5 a head and $1,000 was raised to finish the job. The Transcript of that day said the theatre was decorated with flags and evergreen and 96 gas burners’ gave as brilliant light as the noon-day sun. Three hundred persons danced until dawn. The interior was completed and the first presentation, a burlesque and comedy opened the show palace Sept. 12, 1865. Dan Setchell and the Worrell Sisters—-Sophie, Irene and little Jennie—were the performers. The first presentation was “Ici on Parle Francaise.” Stage Manager W. Stephenson led community singing of “Bless Me, Father, Let Me Go.” The performers completed the evening with two burlesque pieces, “John Jones of the War Office,’ and “The Invisible Prince.” Admission was a dollar. T. Maguire was manager, J. S. Fallon was treasurer, and F. Schreiner was orchestra leader. John Cashin, partner of the butcher firm of Cashin & Davis, was president of the company that built the theatre in 1865. James Monro, another butcher, and W. C. Stiles of the Stiles, Planing Mill, were officers of: the company. The earliest entertainment of Nevada City was no doubt rough sports, fisticuffs and an o¢casional tent show. Fandango halls by Darnell the second century of enterJr. Enterprises, operators of \RALPH ACHEY Resident Manager were reportedly never as popular here as in the southern mines. Hamlet Davis provided a reading room on the second floor of his two story building on Broad and Pine during the summer of 1850. Dramatic. hall was opened. here in 1851 and several dramatic troupes performed there. . built in the fall of 1851 at the . foot of Main street but only lastThe Jenny Lind theatre was, EDAR OP Second Local Century Of Dramatic Art to Be % Pyare i aided dh ms NEVADA CITY (Nevada County) CALIFORNIA Friday, December 9, 1949 Volume 22, No. 66 . ed 15 weeks befort it washed . down Deer creek during: a flash . . flood. Emma Nevada, Edwin Booth, . vada City in 1852-53 but failed hall on Main street in 1853. The building was destroyed by fire . in June, 1856, with Edwin Booth . slated to open the night of the . fire. Frisbie and a partner named . Bain built the Nevada theatre ont the site of the Concert hall and it opened Dec. 1, 1856, with H. A. Warwick starring in “The Merchant of. Venice.” The theatre was destroyed in the May, 1858, fire. The Metropolitan: theatre appeared four months later near the Union hotel and four years was Nevada City’s only theatre. The Metropolitan was destroyed in the city’s last great fire of November, 1863. Following its construction at the end of the Civil war.the Nevada theatre was the showhouse of the city for decades. In 1907 a group of 12 local men led by William V. Tamblyn and George H. Calanan formed a company, took over the old Henessey livery stable on the site of the Alpha Hardware store, made it over into @ picture house and called it the Broadway. For several years they showed two-reelers. With the growth of the motion picture industry and the inauguration of “story” pictures the company would rent the Nevada for big pictures. Tamblyn recalls that one of the first big films was ‘The Spoilers” starring William Farnum which appeared about 1912. In 1923 the group purchased the Nevada, remodeled and operated it until 1937 when it was sold to the T. & D. Jr. Enterprises. DISTRICT DEPUTY GRAND EXALTED RULER HERE Henry J., Bouillard, Redding, district deputy grand exalted ruler of Elks, made his official visit here last night. Turkey sandwiches were served. The Cedar theatre, pictured above, will open ng Pe we Sunes “ELECTION ‘ OF OFFICERS SCHEDULED AT TUESDAY MEETING OF CHAMBER Election of officers will be the principal matter of business at Tuesday evening’s meeting of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce-in city hall. Candidates--nominated atthe November meeting were president: I. C. Bell. Stan Halls, Ray Spickelmier, Milt Anderson, Ray Strange, liam J. Wasley. Threé have been nominated for vice president: I. C. Bell, George Halstead and Angus -Fox. For board of directors: Paul J. Bergemann, Milt Anderson, Ken Wray, O. J. Melton, Sid Alderson, Martin Spangler, Larry Mayworm, William Novak, Harry Peart, William C. Briggs, Merrill Colvin, Frank Duffy, Charles Hilpert and Max Flindat. Also up for possible discussion and study will be the proposed prison labor camp which was disthe board of directors. Directors voiced the: opinion

the Nevada county board of supervisors acted hastily in opposing the proposal of the department of corrections establishing @ camp in this county. The directors instructed Secretary H. F. Sofge to write Congressman Clair Engle and Senator Sheridan Downey urging the construction of a federal building in Nevada City. Sofge was also instructed to write a letter to the main offices of Western Union telegraph company protesting proposed closing of the local office. TWO NEW. NOTARIES Secretary of State Frank M. of original notary public commissions to Thelma A. Jackson, 231 Commercial St., and Gordon H. Tryon, 107 Prospect St. . Mosco Smart and Wilcussed at Tuesday’s meeting of’ Jordan today announced issuance ! ‘DEPUTIES STOP ESCAPE TRY BY JAIL INMATES . Alert action by the staff of the . Nevacia county sheriff’s office . following a grapevine tip nipped a planned break for freedom by seven prisoners in’ the county jail Friday evening. . An inspection at 7 o’clock re. vealed the men had pried a large steel plate from the wall by using an iron bar from one of the cell bunks, (1 Sheriff RicHard W. Hoskins reported the plate had been spot welded on the wall. Hoskins said that had the prisoners been successful in getting from the cell they could possibly have made their way from the courthouse building through a skylight. The sheriff’s office declined to name the prisoner who gave the tip or name the prisoners involved in the break attempt. TWO-CENT STAMP IS. REQUIRED ON UNSEALED CHRISTMAS GREETINGS William J. Wasley, Nevada City postmaster, warned this . morning that 14%-cent stamps are obsolete for single postage use in the U. S.; and as a result cannot be used to prepay postage on unsealed Christmas cards. Wasley recommends use of the first class rate to avoid disap. pointment, obtain best service including free forwarding if addressee has moved, or return if undeliverable and use of personal . messages on card. Wasley said the third class rate = ‘ture rier by Mayor A. Edwin Booth appeared in Ne-; this evening with the snipping of a ribbon barcentury of dramatic art to Nevada City. on unsealed printed greeting . cards is. now two cents. B. Innis, to usher in the second FRANK TIPPS ASKS FOR ACCOUNTING OF MOTOR FIRM BOOKS: RECEIVER Frank Tipps, Grass Valley, yesterday filed a complaint against M. R. Bickham, asking for accounting after dissolution of a partnership, injunction pendente lite, and appointment of_receiver. The two men entered into partnership Jan. 1, 1947, to operate a Grass Valley motor firm under . ; the name of Partridge Motors. A dissolution agreement was made Aug. 6, 1949. In the complaint filed yesterday Tipps states the partnership employed Charles Hillyer as a bookkeeper. Tipps charges Hillyer and the defendant entered into a conspiracy whereby Hillyer would make false entries in the partnership’s books. A certified public accountaint was employed .to audit the books and on Aug. 6 announced books were in such condition he was unable to complete an audit. Tipps stated on dissolution date he was paid $1,000 cash by defendant and took delivery of a 1949 Hudson. The plaintiff declared Bickham refuses to make an accounting of the partnership. The plaintiff asks agreement of Aug. 6, 1949, be declared nujl and void and cancell” bill of sale in escrow; that an accounting be made by Bickham; that property of business Tipps states has assets of $50,000, be sold and surplus be divided between plaintiff and defendant; and that a receiver for the business be appointed. PLEADS GUILTY — E. R. Schroeder entered’ plea of guilty in superior court on five counts of issuing bad checks. Motion for probation was made by Lynne Kelly, court-appointed attorney. Superior Judge James Snell set Monday for passing of sentence. « TRINITY RECTOR HITS WRANGLING IN COMMUNITY Rev. Max L. Christensen, rector of Trinity Episcopal church, invited to. speak before Friday’s meeting of the Nevada’ City EleMentary Parent-Teachers association, stood up before the group and opened his remarks “with, “I see my subject is Thanksgiving Just Past and Christmas Is Ahedd. How can a man speak of such a subject?” Then he calmly dropped a bombshell. Rev. Christensen criticised the association’s attempt to ban certain motion pictures and comic books, and sharply scored wrangling and strife that has recently gripped the board of supervisors, the city council and school board. He urged the organization to follow a constructive plan and to place emphasis on programs that build beneficial forces, rather than conduct campaigns of destruction. . : He roundly scored parents with the observation that “Children are a home responsibility and the responsibility should not be shoved to church and-school.” Rev. Christensen charged the local school policy allows children to obtain diplomas that are not earned and laid some of that blame on parents by over shielding and demanding promotion of their children. Lloyd -Geist, principal of the elementary school, briefly. outlined present teaching and grading methods under which report ecards carry marks which are an indication of a child’s effort in view of his ability. Geist pointed out that a student of moderate intelligence who made a great effort could receive a\higher grade than a brilliant student who loafed. A round table discussion developed the difference of this modern method as compared to the outdated practice under which a highly intelligent child could loaf his way from one class to another and graduate with honors. The speaker pointed out that modern school methods placed a new burden on teachers who must consider each child individually and mark them according to effort and capability. More than eighty parents and teachers attended the meeting presided over by Mrs. Arnold Jackson, president of the association. CITY COUNCIL OKEYS NEW FIRE EQUIPMENT City council last night approved expenditure of $25,000 for a new fire engine and the installation of additional fire hydrants and alarm boxes. Funds to finance the additional equipment will be financed by a $25,000 addition to the proposed sewage bond issue expected to exceed $100,000. Fire Chief Ted Sigourney said the additional facilities would bring a sharp reduction in the city’s basic fire insurance rates. _ The Weather Fred Bush, observer high low Friday, Deer? aos 63 30 Saturday, Dec. 3 .... 60 27 Sunday, Dec. 4 ...... 59 32 Monday, Dec. 5 ...... 64 36 Tuesday, Dec. 6 .... 59 32 Wednesday, Dec. 7 .. 50 37 Thursday, Dec. 8 .... 50 ~~° 30 Precipitation: Dec. 5, .42; Dec.* 7.03; : A welding torch was used to remove a tire from a Sierra county truck last week in Downieville. Investigation revealed the tire had never been removed in 11 years since the truck was purchased. : -