Word: royston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Negro Lint Shaw, whom Judge Moseley had thus saved from lynching, returned from safekeeping in Atlanta to Danielsville to stand trial for attempted assault on a white woman. A murderous-looking mob forced his transfer to nearby Royston. There at midnight the same mob ripped him out of the jail. At daybreak his bullet-ridden body was found swaying from a pine tree in a creek bed, Georgia's 468th lynching.* Few days later in Pavo 200 Georgians raised the total to 469 by lynching Negro John Ruskin, confessed murderer of a white...
Testimony presented before William Henry Harrison (grandson of the late President of that name and recently unsuccessful Republican candidate for Congressman from this district), judge pro tem., was that one James Brown had taken his horse to Royston's blacksmith shop to have it shod. It was limping badly, having been without shoes for a year. The horse kept lying down, making the shoeing difficult. He tried a "twitch" on it. but this failed to work. Then following what he said had been the advice of experts, he took hold of the horse's tongue and was told...
Smiling Faces has an elaborately trite plot about a film actress (Dorothy Stone) who marries her fiance's best friend (Roy Royston) to get in the social register so that she can wed the man she loves (Charles Collins) without costing him his, inheritance. It has one good tune ("Stumbled Over You") and another with a line beginning "And soon a baby face. . . ." Like most Fred Stone shows it has few sexy jokes and those it has deal exclusively with the intermediate sex. Sample: "Since this is A Midsummer Night's Dream, you don't mind...
...Houston, La Porte, Tex.; Mrs. R. E. McDonald, Stamford, Tex.; Mrs. Josephine Paulus, Pearsall Tex.; Mrs. J. B. Heitchew, Abilene, Tex.; Harry Houston and Temple H. Morrow, Dallas, Tex.; Mrs. Nettie Houston Bush, San Antonio, Tex.; Mrs. Robert A. John, Mrs. Jennie M. Decker, Mrs. Madge Hearne. Franklin Williams, Royston Williams, and Marion Williams, all of Houston...
...Hopper - Fred Lewis Mr. Cecil Graham I. C. Martin '34 Lady Plimdale Susan Field Lord Plimdale H. R. Herrmann '32 Mrs. Cowper-Cowper Barbara Wortheim Lady Jedburgh Emmeline Hill Lady Agatha Carlysle Mary Emmons Mr. Guy Berkeley W. M. Kilcullen '34 Miss. Dorothy Graham Louise Smith Lady Royston Ruth Pfeifer Lady Stutfield Hester Blatt Rosalie Christine Lanningan