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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1917
Page
6
Big vaudeville bill at the Orpheum starts Monday matinee featuring four musicians and four dancers at top speed. Acts include violinist banjoist pianist drummer The Massageman comedy sketch by Will Armstrong with Jimmy Lyers Labotlette Wicks and the Xavier Triplets in a holiday themed finale.
State Band 18 performs at Highland Park ending a week with a popular concert. New director Hurton Strock leads three pieces including On the Western Ocean and a Carmen fantasy with a patriotic medley.
Starting Monday the Civic exposition will feature a complete program change at Highland Park auditorium. The final act of the current lineup closes today and the new schedule includes Walsh and Rand from Songland LaDelle and Lillian banjo girls Royal Gascoine and novelty eccentrics and singers Miss Benning and Miss Biddle.
London special report shows British building trades employment fell from 850,000 after the war to 450,000, a drop of 400,000 likely contributing to the army. The shift reflects reduced construction activity and manpower for civilian projects as the country adjusts postwar.
Don Falanqo stars in Your Obedient Servant based on Black Beauty at Thomas A. Edison studios, famed for his intelligent horse act. Mutual sets Hedda Gabler release for May 7 with Nance O’Neill, while Margarita Fischer promotes garden-building in San Diego. Other items note Jackie Saunders’ Bing cat, figures on war film booms, Violet Mersereau in Susan’s Gentleman, and new roles for George Leban, Margaret Slington, Douglas Fairbanks, and Beatriz Michalena. The Caulfield unit signs Billie Rhodes for 52 single reels.
Copentia gen reports annual profits near 2,000,000 crowns on 1,500,000 crown capital. The company announces a 70 percent dividend to shareholders.
In Pride starring Holbrook Blinn one of the Seven Deadly Sins, a five reel McClure feature to be shown Tuesday and Wednesday at Princess and Family theater. Shirley Mason’s character plunges into a lake when her car skids over an embankment. She wears a boy’s bathing suit during the accident after resisting a dress-based plan.
Webster high school English class presents a dramatization of Mrs Wiggs of the Cabage Patch in the auditorium Wednesday evening. Characters include Mrs Wiggs Dorothy Taylor Jimmy Richard Scholz Billy Kenneth Stewart Asia Agnes Bitter Australia Thelma McDole European Mary Hinrichsen Miss Lucy Alcott Constance Ellis Robert Ridding Joe Menke Miss Hazy Florence Stevens Chris Hazy Marcellus Huck Pete Hazy Willard Brazelton and Waiter in restaurant Carl Wessels.
The listing covers multiple days with hourlies and titles. Notable entries include The Big Question and Billy West in His Waiting Career today. Warren Kerrigan in An Artist's Intrigues on Monday. Seven Deadly Sins with Pride on Tuesday. Elsie Alberts in Snow White and A Novel Romance on Wednesday. plus ongoing serials like Daughter of Daring and Perils of Our Girl Reporters.
Monday Tangled Threads The Drifter Love on Crutches ay Seven Deadly Sins featuring Pride Holbrook Bunun in leading role
New York April 22 the American Railway association reported the largest freight car shortage on record for April 1 with 143,095 cars missing from tracks an increase of 18,977 from March 1.
An advertisement promoting Dr King’s New Life Pills as a spring laxative to cleanse winter wastes, boost vitality, improve complexion and eye brightness. Claims to aid nature’s process with non-gaping laxative formula. Available at all druggists for 25 cents.
London April 22 The Times carries a letter from novelist and socialist propagandist N G Wells urging a republican society for Great Britain. He argues republics in France Turkey the United States and Portugal should express broad republican feeling and that Britain is a crowned republic but should abandon royal pretensions and liberal hypocrisy. The piece frames royal trappings as historical remnants and urges unambiguous steps toward a republic.
A brief note notes Gem releases The Big Question while Filly West features in His Waiting Career. Two heel comedy items present genres and performers, with a light entertainment angle and no further plot details.
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