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Silver Dollar (Warner). In Denver, Colo., where a theatre and a telephone exchange are named for him, Horace Austin Warner Tabor is well remembered. "Haw" Tabor was born in 1830. He grew up in Vermont, went to work for and married the shrewish daughter of a Maine stonecutter. Heading West, young Tabor and his wife farmed in Kansas for a few years, then pushed on to prospect for gold in Colorado. Haw Tabor took to running a general store. In return for $64 worth of supplies, two German silver-diggers gave him a one-third interest in anything they found...
...only thing that Warner Brothers had to fear in making a picture about Haw Tabor was that the facts of 'his life, as reported in Author David Karsner's book Silver Dollar, would seem too theatrical. This danger was averted in a skillful continuity by Carl Erickson and Harvey Thew and in an amazingly successful impersonation of Haw Tabor (called Yates Martin in the picture) by Edward G. Robinson. Robinson makes Yates Martin what Haw Tabor very likely was-a gay, growling, vain man, dazzled and delighted by a world which, for a time, seemed made of silver...
Warner Brothers exploited Silver Dollar cleverly. Before the picture was nationally released last week, they distributed 12,000 silver dollars in change to patrons who bought tickets at the Strand Theatre in Manhattan. To a special opening in Den ver three weeks ago (in the Denver Theatre, near the Tabor Grand Opera House which is now a cinema theatre) so many notables were invited that the premiere was Denver's most brilliant since the Tabor Grand Opera House opened its dcrors in 1881 with Maritana. Among the notables who failed to attend...
...second squads. A second Freshman team will be formed for the first time and will play M.I.T., Watertown High School, Concord High, and Tillston Academy. The regular Freshman team has a grueling series of games beginning with the Watertown High clash on Wednesday, followed by tilts with Worcester, Tabor, Exeter, Andover, Dean, Quincy High, and ending with the Yale game on November...
When silver became king and William Jennings Bryan was its herald, mining and cattle men splashed with their fortunes into Denver. Notable was vulgar Senator Horace Arthur Warner ("Silver Dollar") Tabor who built the pretentious Tabor Grand Opera House, birthplace of Denver's culture, now the Tabor Grand, a cinemansion. Of Shakespeare's picture on the proscenium, Tabor said, "What the hell did he ever do for Denver? Paint him out and put me up there." Eugene Field, then managing editor of the Denver Tribune, wrote the poem "Modjesky as Cameel" as a picture of a frontier first night...