Mainland Theatre Presents The Time The Place And The Girl
The Mainland Theatre showcased Billy Allen and company in a musical program with song and comedy. The act Keep Moving kept audiences lively through Billy Hen’s antics and strong supporting cast. The Time The Place and The Girl heads today with lavish sets and electric effects and a Charley Chaplin contest follows tonight. Saturday matinee features The Dingbat Family and gifts for readers.
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Billy Allen
Billy Hen
Birth of a Nation shown at Maryland Theatre in great spectacle
Critics hail D W Griffiths Birth of a Nation for its music driven drama and vast outdoor battle scenes. The two hour forty five minute spectacle opens with seat sales starting February 22 for February 24 26 showings with matinees. The production features Henry B Walthall Tilly Gish Mae Marsh Miriam Cooper and many others among eighteen thousand in cast with three thousand horses and five thousand scenes.
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D. W. Griffith
Mr. Grifith
Maryland Theatre
America
David Wark Griffith
Dixon
Mr. Griffith
Griffith
Henry B. Walthall
Tiltian Gish
Mae Marsh
Miriam Cooper
Mary Alden
Josephine Crowell
Ralph Lewis
Joseph Henabery
Raoul Walsh
Donald Crisp
Howard Gaye
George Seigmann
Walter Long
Elmer Clifton
Robert Warren
The Wonderful Adventure at Grande Theatre
William Farnum stars in The Wonderful Adventure at the Grande Theatre tomorrow with two roles for Farnum. The plot centers on Demarest a New York contractor ruined by Mazera and drug addiction while Stanley a miner impersonates him to salvage his life and marriage in a tense dramatic tale.
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William Farnum
Fox
Grande Theatre
William Fox
America
John Demarest
New York
Mazera
John Stanley
Farnum
Demarest
Stanley
Potash and Perlmutter Coming to Maryland Theatre
The great comedy Potash and Perlmutter heads to the Maryland Theatre Monday February 21 with Abe and Morris in a stage revival praised for warmth and laughs. Manager Meelinger reports strong box office demand as reservations flood in for this international favorite, featuring Ruth Goldman and a crowd-pleasing Cupid. Lou tickets go on sale Friday via Baccia train at C and P R R.
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Montague Glass
Saturday Evening Post
Abe
Morris
A. H.woods
Cohan Theatre
New York City
Perlmutter
Mr. Woods
Maryland
Meéellinger
Ike Andrew Carnegie
Lillian Russell
Cupid
Lou
Baccia
Helmets of Victory Suderwick Germans Wear 1818 Headgear
German soldiers near the Dutch frontier wear antique 1818 Prussian helmets, dubbed Helmets of Victory, due to equipment shortages. The relics are noted as surprisingly fitting current styles amid wartime strain.
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Amsterdam
Suderwick
Over Night at Liberty Theatre Starring Vivian Martin
Vivian Martin shines as a timid bride who loses her husband on their honeymoon and finds him entangled with another bride aboard the Hudson River steamboat Hendrick Hudson. A night at an inn near the Catskills leads to quarreling and mistaken marriage claims, with a deft supporting cast and strong visuals.
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Genue
Hendrick Hudson
Catskills
Vivian Martin
A Landscape of Oranges at National Orange Show
San Bernardino California opens the sixth national orange show with an orange palace stage setting and a wild animal act amid orange displays. The exhibit, valued at 200000 dollars, draws thousands of visitors from across the state to the roof venue where bands perform.
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San Bernardino
Cal
California
Peer that made Milwaukee famous
Milwaukee residents recall Sir Thomas Shaughnessy after he was made a baron by King George. Once known as Tom in the Third ward, he is now celebrated as the peer who brought Milwaukee into wider notice.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Thomas Shaughnessy
King George
Tom
Third Ward
Theatrical notes from the Maryland Theatre season wrap up
The Maryland Theatre showcases Potash and Perlmutter as a top comedy with a strong New York pedigree. The Aorn Opera Company brings The Bohemian Girl with a twelve member Tzigani acrobat troupe in the second act, plus Birth of a Nation in the next week. Jopland is touted as the season’s biggest novelty with John W. Vogel’s Big Minstrels adding comic flair and a full operatic cast and chorus.
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Maryland Theatre
New York
Aorn Opera Company
Tzigani
John W. Vogel
First NH Execution in Years Set for Oscar J. Connery
In Concord on February 17 the first New Hampshire execution in a quarter century is planned for tomorrow at the state prison. Oscar J Connery will die for murdering his wife by poisoning her with strychnine to free himself to marry another. Insurance proceeds and exhumation evidence led to his conviction. The sheriff of Hillsboro County will oversee the execution with a gallows reused from 1803.
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Concord
N. H
New Hampshire
Oscar J. Connery
Rowe
Frank C. Almy
Christie Warden
Warden Rowe
George L. Stearns
Hillsboro
Comery
New England
Indifferent Condemned Man Seeks Catholic Last-Minute Hope
A week after pleas from his sister he shows desire to return to the Catholic church he left years ago. Comery has daily priestly visits and repents his crime. Tomorrow morning the priest will accompany him to the scaffold. He will spend his final night in the prison infirmary near the guard room as the march to the gallows nears.
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Comery
Controversial plea urged in Belgian village decree
Amsterdam reports February 17 that Boitesford's burgomaster posted a placard urging residents to drown or hang themselves if death by own action is necessary. The German authorities fined the village $1250 after a resident shot himself. Belgians are forbidden firearms. the burgomaster asks villagers to die without bullets to save the town treasury.
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Amsterdam
Boitesford
Brussels
Rose Mather Sues for 22500 Over Street Car Crash
Miss Rose Mather of St Paul sues the St Paul City Railway company for 22500 damages claiming emotional distress after a street car accident. She says she weeps each time she recalls the incident and seeks redress for the harm allegedly caused by the railway.
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St. Paul, Minn
Rose Mather
St. Paul
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