Week's Movie Offerings in La Crosse Ghost of Pickford Return
Mary Pickford visits La Crosse in Less Than the Dust from Art Crafts after leaving Paramount. The film impresses with Pickford originality, clean cutting, and a strong cast, supported by special music. Local theaters showcase Paramount, Triangles, Casino and Bijou programs ahead of the holidays, including Witchcraft and Broken Chains previews.
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Mary Pickford
la Crosse
Paramount
Art Crafts
Little Mary
Paramounts
Triangles
Splendid Pictures
the Bijou
Fanny Ward
Broken Chains
Carlyle Blackwell
Owen Moore
Anita King
Quintette of Filmers Hit Local Screens Next Week
The La Crosse cinema page previews a star‑studded week with Mutual Masterpicture titles. Marguerite Snow and William Nigh lead The Notorious Gallagher while Helen Holmes and others headline at the Dome and Bijou with Thanhouser Spirit of the Poppy and Bird of Paradise. Charles Ray stars in The Honorable Algy at the Majestic with Margery Wilson and Margaret Thompson.
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Mutual
America
Marguerite Snow
William Nigh
Gallagher
Nigh
Miss Snow
William H. Tooker
Mary Nash
Helen Holmes
the Dome
Lumberlands
Thanhouser
la Crosse
Cecil van Arker
Miss Ulrich
van Arker
Burton Holmes
Italy
Robert Warwick
Wyoming
Plains
Mollie King
Alex Francis
Morosco- Paramount
Vivian Martin
Kleine-Edison-Selig Studios
Majestic Screen
Viola Dana
Russia
Charles Ray
Charley
Ray
Margery Wilson
Margaret Thompson
Algy
Casino Week Opens With Fitch Novel Screen Version
The Casino closes a week of distinguished offerings with The Way of the World screen version from Clyde Fitch. Hobart Bosworth leads with Dorothy Davenport in a society and politics drama ending tragically yet artistically. Also on offer Raine’s In the Diplomatic Service, The Shine Girls with Gladys Hulette, and Whispering Smith with Helen Holmes.
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Clyde Fitch
Fitch
Hobart Bosworth
Dorothy Davenport
Francis X. Bushman
Beverly Ra
Metro
Sammy
Rushman
Bayne
Shine
The Solicitor Returns for Carrie in Town
Sam Karns reappears as a library fundraiser organizer seeking Carrie’s hand. Ferdinand Weigel, wary but amused, grants his blessing after learning the request is for marriage, not money, and Carrie’s future prospects with books and knowledge. The town’s library dream frames their union.
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McClure
Ferdinand Weigel
Arrie
Cribbses
Sam Karns
Ack
Carrie
Clark County
Shakespeare
Dad
Sam
Egypt
Ferdinand
Mr. Weigel
Weigel
Right Off the Bat Film at the Dome
The Nome theater hosts the feature film Right Off the Bat at the Rose Street house tonight. Beautiful Marguerite Courtot leads the program as the story revolves around baseball and its people.
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Filmland
Nome
Rose Street House
Marguerite Courtot
Rose
Blanche Sweet Ends Bijou Engagement With The Storm
Blanche Sweet and Theodore Roberts close their Bijou run in The Storm a Lasky Paramount feature enjoyed by large crowds at Third Street house. Pictographs shows the Battle of the Somme vividly. Leonore Ulrich arrives to brighten the program in The Intrigue.
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Bijou
Paramount
Third Street
the Somme
Leonore Ulrich
Minnesota
Hawaiian Islands
la Crosse Theater
Helen Holmes Stars in Two Strand Films at Strand
Helen Holmes headlines the Strand season in two back to back episodes. Saturday she leads Episode Three of The Lass of the Lumberlands, a Redwood forests epic. Sunday she returns as Marion in Medicine Bend, the sequel to Whisp ering Smith, the railroad tale that delighted Strand fans.
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Helen Holmes
Cagino
Frank H. Spearman
Medicine Bend
Strand
Whispering Smith
McWiliams
Lumberlands
Marion
Magnates Widow Harkness Dies After Operation
Mrs Mary Warden Harkness widow of Standard Oil magnate Charles W Harkness died early Friday following an operation at Presbyterian Hospital. She had traveled from her Madison home to New York for medical care last week and never recovered.
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New York
Presbyterian Hospital
Mary Warden Harkness
Charles W. Harkness
Madison
Overland Wages Raised Across Toledo Elyria and Elmira
The Willys Overland Automobile company announces a wage hike affecting 21 000 workers in Toledo Ohio Elyria Ohio and Elmira New York. The raise totals 1 925 000 dollars annually.
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Toledo
Willys Overland Automobile Company
Elyria
Ohio
Elmira
N. Y
Madison Square Garden Sold at Auction for 2 Million
Madison Square Garden in New York was sold at auction to New York Life Insurance Company for 2,000,000. The sale cements the venue's future as a site for major fights, events, and public gatherings under new ownership.
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New York
Madison Square Garden
New York Life Insurance Company
Four-Story Kimball Building Destroyed in Fire
The Kimball, a four story office building in Cedar Rapids la, was destroyed by Friday with an estimated loss of 250090 dollars.
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Cedar Rapids, la
Kimball
Jim Grimsbys Boy at the Majestic Theatre
Frank Keenan presents Jim Grimsbys Boy with a strong cast at the Majestic Theatre on Saturday. The morale of the show and the performance are highlighted as a notable entertainment event.
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Jim Grimsby
Majestic
Frank Keenan
Majestic Theater
The Sins We Do and The Pride of the Clan Film Notes
A Triangleface release The Sins We Do stars Frank Keenan with Berret Steele a lawyer who defends his daughter in a fatal case amid an affair plot and a happy ending. Mary Pickford stars in The Pride of the Clan directed by Maurice Tourneur.
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Frank Keenan
Berret Steele
Steele
Margery Wilson
Pick ford Moore Star Alice Joveé To Feature In Film
Alice Joveé of the Pick ford Moore clan has kept a low profile as she devotes herself to home life but will soon be featured in a movie production adaptation titled Within the Law.
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Enid Markey
Miss Markey
Wilfred Lucas
Lucas
Mary
Mary Pickford
Maurice Tourneur
Miss Pickford
United States
Little Mary
India
Ganges
Hulda
Holland
America
Max Linder
Essanay
Linder
Europe
Paris
Max
Alice Joveé
Pickford-Moore
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Pickford
Impression
Smith
King Baggott
Beverly Baylie
Bluebird
Lenore Ulrich
Triangle Star
Constance Talmadge
Triangle
Story of
Gladys Hulette
the Tribune
By Taniske Oliver
Chamber of Comerce
Blanche
Theodore Roberts
Shubert
Dept
Resinel
Baltimore
Arturo Cairo
Buenos Aires
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