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Mail Tribune 100, Jan. 6, 1923 By Alissa Corman Jan 06, 2023 12:00 AM A A News from 100 years ago The following news items were drawn from the archives of the Mail Tribune 100 years ago Jan. 6, 1923 WIND STORM AT CENTRAL POINT CAUSES DAMAGE Central Point, Jan. 6. — (Special Correspondence). Early last Sunday morning a severe windstorm visited Central Point and caused much damage. The large barn belonging to Frank Cochran was blown down smashing the hood, windshield and top of his Chevrolet car, which was in the barn. His milk cow barely escaped death as only a few timbers held the fallen wall from the animal, the boards had to be pried loose to get the cow out. A large water tank standing near the house was also seriously damaged, the wind being of such force that it bent it double. A small barn belonging to Ira Grigsby was totally destroyed, the boards on which his cow stood, were hurled twenty feet. A chicken house owned by Jesse Richardson was blown over, and one belonging to Mr. George Wallace was blown over at the same time. Many trees were uprooted and poles blown down, interfering with traffic. MUSIC GIVES PAGE PLAY ADDED CHARM “The art of the screen,” says Robert Vignola, “has been criticized because it exhibits life as soundless. So it does. So, too, does the art of the novel, the canvas and epic poetry. The complaint lodges against motion pictures because they are conceived to be an inarticulate imitation of the drama, and that is largely the fault of producers and directors of pictures. “They were like the makers of the first automobiles who couldn’t think of any models that were not like the carriages, phaetons and ‘buggies’ they were about to supplant. “This of the evolution in the appearance of the high powered automobile of today! They resemble old Dobbin’s shay about as closely as a modern express locomotive looks like a ‘prairie schooner’.” The wedding of music to the silence of the picture is serving to rob them of the rebuke that the art of the screen is soundless and one of the many charms of the latest photoplay, “When Knighthood Was in Flower,” directed by Mr. Vignola, now playing for the last day at the Page theatre is the excellent musical score that Betty Brown, organist, has given it. It is very effective in this big production which features Marion Davies and a score of others. — Alissa Corman; [email protected]