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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1916
Page
8
The youthful champion somersaint equestrienne asserts no class of people can live a tore life in the Selle Floto Circus. She stresses risk and necessity in daring tricks, urges constant exertion and avoiding late suppers to protect performers’ health and stage duty.
The Broadway theater centers a holiday vaudeville program in Butte with a children's matinee and a full evening bill. Acts from Jesse Lasky’s Society Buds to Claudia Coleman and Bartelli’s wire feats headline a lively show, alongside the moving picture serial The Iron Claw and the Laughing Mask mystery, drawing a crowded, festive audience.
Crowds at the Empress in Butte have packed the house this week for a strong program. Otto Action the tramp juggler and the Three Krundells in a tight wire act drew big applause along with Howard Chase and company. The comedy Where Ignorance Is Bliss and the Minstrel Boys Kennedy and Kramer and Davis and Elmore drew praise as the two final performances wrap up tonight.
A dramatic forest fire scene in Douglas Fairbanks’ The Half Breed dramatizes Bret Harte’s In the Carquinez Woods. Filming used real redwoods and actual locations to depict a blaze in the famed California forest area amid authorities’ initial misgivings about potential wildfires.
The piece describes a risky film shoot with full fire safety, a Sheriff near death scene, and stunt effects that singed actors including Fairbanks and De Grasse. It profiles Mrs. Rhoda Royal the famed horse trainer and notes the circus parade at 10 30 each morning featuring Willard and Goten with Willard shown as a cowboy and boxing sparring demonstration.
Director J Gordon Edwards almost formed a menagerie for the film Under Two Flags shown at the Ansonia theater. A rat named Fadle, kept on the payroll after a staged scene, stood still atop a cat as cameras ran, peering beyond the set.
There isn’t a suffragette in the circus yet the Sells-Floto show is run largely by women. Litelaora trains elephants, William Curtis oversees wardrobe and costume design, Rosa Rossland leads horse-to-horse acts, and Mrs. Charles Luckey controls all aerial acts.
The Reckoning Trail a five reel Red Feather feature shows today and tomorrow at the Liberty Theater. J Warren Kerrigan stars as a young rake who goes west to seek fortune with Lois Wilson and Harry Carter in supporting roles. Kerrigan fans cheer his hero persona and Wilson appears in simple frontier attire. Carter portrays a brutal town bully tempting the hero and meeting his comeuppance as the plot unfolds.
Don M Kelly of Lafayette Ind says he lost $15000 in a race horse swindle after meeting two men in a Detroit hotel who placed small bets for him. Kelly claims his funds were returned once, but the later $13000 he gave for betting was not returned and he assisted police in identifying one detained suspect. Two more men are being sought.
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