Burlesque Review and Film Listings at Local Theatres Park and Empire
A Telegram theater page reviews Park Park's Twenty Century Maids with Jim Barton as standout, noting strong dancing and a weak support cast. Also highlights Theda Bara in Mme Du Barry at Folies and multiple acts at West End Hippodrome and Empire with Hidden Pearls and Under Suspicion charity ball set pieces. The article lists Strand and other venues with film lineups and notable performances in the week.
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Telegram
Jim Barton
Barton
Jack Duffy
Arthur Young
Uliette Belmont
Vera Rossmore
Washington, D. C
North Pole
Cook
Paris
Japan
Wedding on edge of departure in wartime romance
A rushed marriage proposal unfolds as a 24 hour deadline looms before a voyage to France. He asks, she accepts with conditions, then humor shifts to an engraver advising safer inscription on the ring about lasting commitment.
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Rerhere
Notis Y
France
Tonk
George
Alice
Filmdom and Footlights and Old World Lore
A collage of notes on moon theory and space belief by Belot and other scholars. Included are calculations on initial velocity needed to project a body from the moon to become a satellite, plus references to ancient seed grains found inside a Buddhist image in Iwame Japan and their 4000 year age. Also a jab about women as bargain hunters and a joke about a daughter’s marriage.
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Mithors
Kive
Belot
Dias
Hehiwis
Earth
Japan
Shiga Prefecture
Vaisravana
Iwame
Vaisravani
Favorites of the Screen Carrie’s Big Wedding Feast
A Cincinnati Times-Star account notes Max Goetschneider and his wife hosting a charity wedding feast for Carrie, daughter of a prosperous farrier, to aid Hungarian and other war-stricken immigrants at the Hebrew Immigrants’ Sheltering Aid Society in an Astoria Broadway building. The event fed hundreds with chicken, duck, goose and fish, welcoming all without invitations, showing compassion for newcomers in a country in wartime transition.
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Carrie
Max Goschneider
New York
Americ
Max
Siim
Gou
Farrie
Ast Broadway
Aid Society
Linrope
Milas
Eiven
Cincinnati Times-Star
A Play's Success Measured By A Dog's Opinion
A humorous exchange asks the best way to guarantee a play's success. The response suggests testing it on a dog to gauge audience reaction. The quip reflects early 20th century vaudeville style and playful wit about theatre reception.
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Tdat
Theda Bara
Mmne
du Barry
Louis XV
Miss Bara
Kirksmith
Bob Hall
Bowers
Walters & Crocker
I de Fairé & Inman
West End
Marguerite Clark
Saturday Evening Post
Alice Howell
Hippodrome
William S. Hart
Hippodrome Theatre
Stratford Avenue
Carroll and
Wilmot
Golden West
Virginia Pearson
Empire
Matsonia
Hawaiian Islands
Sessue Hayakawa
Paramount
George H. Melford
Margaret Loomis
Florence
Victor
Theodore Roverts
Jack Holt
Empire Theatre
Swan
Milwaukee Sentinel
Quilty’s
Jeaifela Avenue
Murray
Washington
Mr. Jinker
Congress
Shay
Waoshington
New York Times
Toronto Star
Newman Silverthorne
Silverthorne
Afome
Lincoln
Bridgeport
U Jn
Walters
Crocker
Wm.s. Hart
Amdako AM
Primal
Fox
Elite Theatre
Main Street
Jane Cowl
The
Dawn
ACK Goldwyn
WM. S. Hart
MR. Nobody
Alexandra Carlisle
Birds of Prey
Fatty” Arbuckle
Bob
Romeo
Marti
Garnum
Benny
WYN and Company
Ty Avery
5 Aces Bab
Race Howele
Westport
Orchestra Dancing Telephones
Clara A Kimball Young
Shirley “Kaye
Miroslava
A. Vocan
Tom & Dolly
Dolly Ward
Presle
Overland Mail
McCarthy & Lovering
Douglas Fairbanks
Reggie
Strand. Theatre
Metro Wonder
Francis Bushman
Beverly Bayne
Shrine of the
Silent Ast
Super Play
Hawaii
Chicago, Ill
Father Finn
French Restoration Fund
Wissner Piano
Main St
William Howard Taft
Pres
United States
James (Cardinal) Gibbons
Charles W. Eliot
Harvard University
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