Higgins Sees Independent Campaign Rise Within Montana Republicans
Missoula candidate Ronald Higgins, seeking the Republican gubernatorial nomination, says a strong independent streak dominates the state party. He travels for the first congressional district convention, predicts merit based selection, and notes a bright, optimistic outlook with a narrowed primary field and lively factional interest. Higgins has served five legislative sessions and is viewed as an independent leader.
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Ronald Higgins
Missoula
Higgins
Missoula County
Willow Tree legend inspires Viola Dana film at Ansonia
Viola Dana stars in The Willow Tree at the Ansonia. The tale, told by George Shimamoto, centers on a Japanese legend about an emperor’s headache and a willow tree whose death spurred Buddha temples. The Broadway play by Cohan and Harris inspired the film produced by Screen Classics Inc. and directed by Henry Otto.
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Viola Dana
Ansonia Theater
J. H. Benjimo
Harrison Rhodes
George Shimamoto
Metro Studios
Miss Dana
Japan
Buddha
Shimamoto
Ike
Ahdu
Addu
Viola Kana
Cohan and
Harris
New York City
Screen Classics, Inc
Henry Otto
Maxwell Karger
June Mathis
The Willow Tree and Heart o the Hills Run in Butte Theatres
At Butte Playhouses the Willow Tree starring Viola Dana at ANSONIA and Heart o the Hills starring Mary Pickford at RIALTO headline local cinema. Other bills include The Miracle of Love with Fatty Arbuckle in The Hayseed at AMERICAN Empress stock in Nothing but the Truth Broadway Pantages Vaudeville and Orpheum features Wallace Reid in The Lottery Man. May Allison appears in Almost Married with a Lloyd comedy at LIBERTY.
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Ansonia
Viola Dana
Rialto
Mary Pickford
Fatty Arbuckle
The
Empress
Empress Stock Company
Broadway
Pantages
Orpheum
Wallace Reid
Liberty
May Allison
Lloyd
Moonshine Operation Found in Centerville House
Deputies Boric and Smith with Federal Warrant Mann uncovered a complete liquor manufacturing outfit at 425 Minah Street, Centerville, home of Martin Burke. A trunk of moonshine and a 40 gallon still with warm liquor were moved to the federal building storeroom. Four barrels of mash were destroyed on the premises. Burke claimed the liquor and outfit belonged to two men staying in his house, whom he did not name.
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Mike Boric
Leslie Smith
Federal
Dfincer
F. L. Mann
Minah Street
Martin Burke
Burke
Plaintiffs Win In Two Actions In Lamb Court
Hansen Packing company was awarded $1277.26 and costs in a suit against John Boyle and Mrs John Boyle. In another case Mike Basich and William Popin won judgment for $472.45 plus interest against Mike Franich and Lucas Franich with default of the defendant entered.
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Hansen Packing Company
John Boyle
Pantages Vaudeville Close at Broadway Theater
Tonight ends the Pantages bill at the Broadway with Charles Olcott performing a striking pianologue in The Act Beautiful. Coffman and Carroll draw big laughs in The Porter’s Troubles. Mary Ann sings Freckles, plus Twelve colored entertainers in A Holiday in Dixieland and Ed Blondel in a sketch. Universal Weekly and Mutt and Jeff also shown.
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Charles Olcott
Kutte
Coffman and Carroll
Mary Ann
Ed Blondel and Company
Universal Weekly
Mutt and
Jeff
Fleeing in her nightgown Mavis Hawn in Heart o the Wills
Mavis Hawn a 14 year old Kentucky mountain girl flees the sheriff after a night ride in a film adaptation of John Fox Jr by Mary Pickford at Rialto. Sanders scoffs at the riders and is shot dead. Steve Honeycutt betrays Mavis to the sheriff he plans to hang her when a courtroom turmoil erupts.
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Mavis Hawn
Kentucky
Sheriff's Posse
Sanders
Mavis
Steve Honeycutt
Rial
Novel Motion Picture Moment Stuns Audiences
A remarkable scene unfolds on screen as one of the most novel occurrences ever seen in motion pictures captivates viewers. The event draws attention to the film’s daring craft and keeps audiences discussing the moment.
Wallace Reid Roughly Mobbed at Orpheum for Lottery Man
Wallace Reid, star of The Lottery Man, faced a staged mob of about 1000 female extras at the Orpheum Theater as director James Cruze forced him to rush through the crowd. The women, tipped off to tear his shirt and grab at him for souvenirs, left Reid with cuts, a bleeding nose, and torn clothing before he escaped. Kipling’s line, a deadlier female, receives renewed note from the actor.
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Wallaece Reid
Hudsard Kipling
Paramount Artcraft
Orpheum Theater
Reid
James Cruze
Armen
Wallace Reid
The Miracle of Love at the American Beenes
The Cosmopolitan production The Miracle of Love is now playing at the American Beenes in Piccadilly and in the English house of lords. Director Robert Z Leonard screened the cast and used native born Britishers for ambience, drawing monocled gentlemen with lemon gloves to the Studio. Lucy Cotton and Wyndham Standing lead a noble cast in this adaptation of Cosmo Hamilton’s story.
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Ab Iltmete
Beenes
Piccadilly
House of Lords
London
Cosmo Hamilton
Lucy Cotton
Wyndham Standing
Robert Z. Leonard
Harris Sentenced for Vagrancy by Butte Judge
Harris was found guilty of vagrancy and sentenced to 66 days in the city jail by Magistrate H. J. Grimes after Ed McMahon filed a complaint. Harris followed McMahon during a paper route and annoyed him, receiving a severe reprimand in court.
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Harris
H. J. Grimes
Butte
Ed McMahon
Grimes
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