All Girl Revue At the Orpheum To Start Week
The Orpheum opens Monday with the All Girl Revue of 1917 and runs through Wednesday. A large musical comedy features The Six Vassar Girls Carita and her classic dancers and a host of others with twenty song hits. The revue travels from Peoria where it played last week and is billed as bigger than ever.
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The
Orpheum
Vassar
Carita
Bob Wilson
Doyle
Elaine
Peoria
Cabiria to Show for Two Days in Quincy Theaters
D. Anunzio presents Cabiria a 12 reel film shown at Savoy Gem and Family in Quincy on Tuesday and Wednesday Jan 9 and 10. The film features 500 participants 200 scenes and a story set in the third century BC Rome amid Rome Carthage and Greece. It is praised for its photography and was once the largest scenic production before Birth of a Nation.
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D'Annunzio
Quincy
Savoy
Gem
Rome
Carthage
Greece
Cabiria
How to Open That Cold Dr Pepper?
Advertising copy extols Dr Bell's Pine Tar Honey as a quick remedy for cold symptoms including sneezing, fever, sore throat, and bronchial congestion. It claims antiseptic effects and relief for croup and whooping cough, urging purchase at all druggists for 25 cents.
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Dr. Bell
Weekly Feature Schedule Mixed Film Reels and Stars
This week's feature list presents shifting billings across days with actors such as Al Jennings Dorothy Gish Billie Burke Sidney Ainsworth and Lillian Gish. Highlights include Cabiria Julius Caesar era epics and Chaplin appearances alongside dramas The Germ of Mystery The Love Thief and The Devil's Double.
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Savoy
Keating
al Jennings
Uabira
Sky
Cub Deacon
Betty of
Greystone
Dorothy Gish
Peggy
Billie Burke
Sidney*Ainsworth
Gertrude Glover
Ham
Bud
Plump
Runt
Cabiria
Liberty
Betts of Greystone
Fritzi Srunette
Hills and Frisco Thrills in Quincy Week at the Movies
The Quincy program lists a week of showings with a mix of features and shorts. Highlights include A Message from the Hills, Only a Rose Plump and runt comedy, The Girl from Frisco, The Poisoned Dart, Helen Gibson in To Save the Special, Selig Tribune Weekly Pokes and Jabs, Across the Pacific, Then I’ll Come Back to You, The Fraud, Mary Anderson in comedy drama, Our Other Lives, Grant Police Reporter, Ham and Bud comedy, and appearances by Bryant Washburn, Gertrude Glover, Adele Kelly, and Raymond Walburn.
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Raymond Walburn
Grant
Ham
Bud
Daughter of the Gods coming to Quincy four days in February
Manager W L Busby of the Empire-Mippodrome has secured the William Fox feature A Daughter of the Gods to be shown in Quincy for four days in February. A 25 piece orchestra accompanies the film shot in Jamaica starring Annette Kellerman. Reported to rival The Birth of a Nation in scale with high ticket prices up to two dollars.
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W. L. Busby
Empire-Mippodrome
William Fox
Jamaica
Annette Kellerman
Pitt Iowa's Speaker Nominated by Republicans
Des Moines Iowa Jan 7 Milton R Pitt of Harrison county Logan Iowa was Saturday nominated for speaker of the Iowa house of representatives by the caucus of Republican members at a downtown hotel here.
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Des Moines
Milllton R. Pitt
Harrison County
Logan
Iowa
Iowa House of Representatives
Printing press sparks global revolutions and luck superstition
A fragment notes the printing press drives many world revolutions while a horseshoe nailed over a door is deemed lucky if it stays in place. The passage blends tech progress with superstition in a concise, dated speech.
Advertising expert Eytinge helped shape Willian Fox drama
Eytinge, deemed one of America’s foremost advertising experts, worked on the Willian Fox master drama The Honor System. He contributed to the photodrama directed with R A Walsh, hailed as the greatest human story ever told, parts of which were staged in Yuma and Florence prisons in Arizona.
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United States
Eytinge
Willian Fox Master
Yuma
Florence
Arizona
R. A. Walsh
Glimpses Of Reel Life At The Isthmus Attractions
The article previews multiple film projects. Kick In stars William Courtenay with Mollie King and Susanne Villa directed by George Fitzmaurice at Astra. Gail Kane and Carlyle Blackwell star in On Dangerous Ground set on the Belgian frontier with a spy, surgeon plot. The Isthmus amusement area provides backdrop for Margarita Fischer’s Butterfly Girl from Mutual. Edna Goodrich signs for a big feature series with Mutual. rehearsals follow a vaudeville engagement at Park Theatre, delaying film work.
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A. H. Woods
William Courtenay
Mollie King
Susanne Villa
George Fitzmaurice
The
Astra
Gail Kane
Carlyle Blackwell
San Diego Exposition
Margarita Fischer
John R. Freuler
Mutual Corporation
Edna Goodrich
Mutual
Miss Goodrich
Park Theater
New York
Convict Making $20,000 a Year While in Prison
Louis Victor Eytinge, serving a life term in Arizona, earned about $20,000 annually through prison literacy and mail order copy writing. Once a forger, he built a business selling prisoner made trinkets and wrote for mail order houses. Eytinge credits Governor Hunt with reforming the prison system, lifting bans on prisoner fetter writing and enabling his remarkable rehabilitation.
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Arizona State
Louis Victor Eytinge
United States
Eytinge
Ile
Phoenix
Prson
Iis
Evtinge
George W. P. Hunt
Arizona
Hunt
Selznick Releases and Metro Contract News
Selznick productions schedule upcoming releases in January through March with Norma Talmadge Clara Kimball Young Florence Reed Robert Warwick and Clara Kimball Young featured in titles The Pantha The Price She Paid The Eternal Sin The Arevue Case and The Easiest Way Ethel Barrymore to devote full time to screen work under Metro contract William Farnum stars in The Price of Silence a Fox drama addressing child labor.
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Selznick
Norma Talmadge
Clara Kimball Young
Florence Reed
Robert Warwick
Ethel Barrymore
Metro
William Farnum
Fox
Marrying a man to reform him proverb on omelets
A sharp adage compares reforming a difficult husband to making a good omelet from a bad egg. It frames marriage as an unreliable fix, noting futility and comic inevitability in attempting drastic personal change. The line highlights gendered expectations and social satire.
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Mutual Weekly
Bright Lights
Charles Chaplin
Star
Jim
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Aliss George Washington
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Maury Pickford
the Foundling
Belasco
Mime Petrova
Love Thief
Sothern
Patience
Louise Huff
William Hart
Enid Markey
Lillian Gish
Arms
New Colonial
Edith Johnson
Fred Church
Judge
Bison Features
Princess Today
William S. Hart
Pitt
Star Theater
MIS
Washington
Paramount
George Washington
Wasser Quartet
Maxim's
Sidney Ainsworth
Tram
Frank Garner
Mooseheart
Tom City
Loyal Order of Moose
J. I Garner
Empire Theater
Children of the Moose
Garner
Order of Moose
Iesus Order of Moose
Gem City Lodge
Moose Hall
Maine Street
Empire
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Gem Theaters
Family Theater
Jean Valjean
America
Peter E. Pinkelmann
Savoy Theater
GEM Theater
Island OF
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Mt. Etna
the Pirates
Violet Schwab
Harris O'Farrell
Frank Malambri
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