Russsars Pressured on Multiple Fronts in War Updates
Petrograd reports Austro German forces pressuring on the Southern Hungarian front while Russians and Romanians offer stubborn resistance. A large Russian advance on the Caucasian front captures several villages. Romanian and Russo Galician theaters see continued assaults with territorial shifts and counterattacks near Ocna Fokshani and Marasechti. In Kharput region Turkish offensives at Mount Merdaundag see initial gains then counterattacks restore positions.
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Kharput
Merdaundag
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Stirring Pictures Move News Into Public Eye
The article notes the rising popularity of motion picture news pictorials showing world events. Audiences see on screen the war preparations of the United States and vivid glimpses of European battlefields, reflecting widespread public interest.
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United States
Lonely Idaho soldiers enlist letter from two Butte girls
Two Butte schoolgirls send wafers to two Idaho soldiers. Letters reveal life at a northern Idaho tunnel camp. Soldiers describe guarding a transcontinental line, awaiting training at American Lake, Boise, and Palo Alto before possible deployment to France. The exchange includes a Kodak photo postcard and eagerness for further correspondence.
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France
Immigrant Chaplin Film At Rialto Ends Today
The local playhouse Rialto shows Chaplin in The Immigrant, praised as Chaplin's best yet with huge crowds. Also screening The Promise with May Allison and Harold Lockwood, offering strong performances in timberland Northwest scenes. Tomorrow features Viola Dana in Gods Law and Mans about a woman's love.
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May Allison
Harold Lockwood
Great Northwest
Viola Dana
North Woods
Four Juggling Normans Top Act At Peoples Hippodrome
The Four Juggling Normans, among vaudeville’s best paid, headline the Peoples Hippodrome today for the next four days with five other strong acts and film previews from Pathe News and Universal Comedy part of the program.
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Peoples’ Hippodrome
Pathe News
Universal Comedy
Hal i fax slate and theater notes from early next month
The eighth season of Everywoman opens in Halifax with Savage touring once more. A new French theater to be installed at Garrick will be Theater du Vieux Colombier, all productions from Paris. Lizzie Hudson Collier to star in Friend Martha at Booth on Aug 6 with a cast including Breese Waldrop Denny Stevenson Lowell Shine Edney and Erskiné. Mary Pickford and sister Lottie survived a war related scare as a French maid attacked them with a hatpin, forcing Lottie to shelter under a table and Mary to rely on her chauffeur.
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Theater du Vieux Colombier
Paris
New York
Lizzie Hudson Collier
Martha
Edward Peple
Booth Theater
Edmund Breese
Oza Waldrop
R. Leich Denny
Charles A. Stevenson
Helen Lowell
John L. Shine
Florence Edney
Wallace Erskiné
Mary Pickford
Lottie
Mary
Fay Bainter to Star in Villiers Comedy The Chatterbox
Fay Bainter, admired for Arms and the Girl, will headline a Bayard Villiers comedy titled The Chatterbox. Villiers, author of Within the Law, writes his first comedy to be produced early in the fall.
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Bayard Villiers
Villiers
Mystery surrounds Covington incognito in Butte visit
Judge J Harry Covington Washington jurist assigned to investigate labor unrest arrives in Butte under an alias to gather firsthand information. Officials and union leaders seek his findings while fearing exposure of his stay during Jeannette Rankin’s visit. He is also tasked to probe in Seattle and Oregon.
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Covington
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Washington
the Thornton
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Seattle
Oregon
War Tide Turns as Allied Gains Grow in Verdun Lens
Allied forces push toward Verdun and Lens with French and Canadian infantry breaking through German lines. French capture Cote l’Oie Samogneux and hill 344 while Meuse crossings and trenches fall to Petain’s troops. German counterattacks fail, prisoners rise, and Italians push into Austrian defenses as air combat intensifies and a German zeppelin is destroyed off Denmark’s coast.
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Meuse
Cote l'Oie
Samogneux
Petain
Galicia
Bukowina
Rumania
Ocna
Fokshani-Paraoena
Ajui
Denmark
Hearst-Pathe News Shows U S Troop Embarkation to France
Illustrative of motion picture men honoring government requests Hearst-Pathe News presents the embarkation of United States troops to France. The cameraman filmed but editors kept negatives secure until Washington officials permitted release.
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United States
France
Washington
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