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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1917
Page
2
Announcement of the Musician's Protective Union picnic and musical festival to be held Wednesday Aug. 1 features a morning start, all day events, and an evening concert by a 150 musician band with six soloists. A vaudeville program and film show accompany the day, with weather attracting crowds to Highland.
After months closed the Bijou theater in Hampshire street reopens today with The 20th Century Girls in A Day at the Races Miss Bonnie Delbert leads a cast of dancers come dians and a full musical comedy program Three shows are scheduled matinee at 2 30 and evenings at 7 30 and 9 Pictures will be changed daily Also note a mention of a cooperative warehouse gaining popularity in the south.
Daily schedule lists numerous silent film features and pairings at Savoy and Gem theaters. Highlights include William Desmond in The Paws of the Bear and The Golden Bullet with Harry Carey, plus Marie Cahill comedies and Universal Weekly news reels.
Belasco presents The Greatest Power today and Monday with Ethel Barrymore in the lead. Antonio Morena performs A Son of the Hills on Tuesday and Wednesday. Gladys Brockwell stars in To Honor and Obey on Thursday and Friday. Bryant Washburn acts in Filling His Own Shoes on Saturday.
Today in Quincy Tom Mix stars in Knights of the Saddle and Diary of a Puppy. Monday Francis Bushman and Beverly Bayne appear in A Shot in the Dark and Molly King in The Life Current.
Tuesday features Arrayed with the Enemy and Six Cylinder Love. Wednesday presents Alice Brady in Bought and Paid For. Thursday shows Theda Bara in The Vixen. Friday offers The Nickel Bullet and Pokes and Jabs comedy. Saturday presents The Jackaroo Hazards of Helen and Pokes and Jabs comedy with Ham and Bud.
A matinee this afternoon and final performance tonight feature Our Children by Henry Kolker. Starting Monday night The Broken Road, a Charles Sumner Hayes drama, currently running at Grand Street in New York City, promises exciting climaxes and comedy. Leone will play a fresh role. a souvenir matinee Tuesday offers Mr. Ross’ photo.
Gladys Brockwell stars in To Honor and Obey at the Belasco theater a portrait of a woman fighting odds. Lorrie Hollis seeks to save husband Hallam by consulting broker Patton. A sequence of trials ends with Hallam’s downfall and Lorrie finding solace with Patton.
William Russell headlines the photoplay My Fighting Gentleman at the Family Theater today and at the Savoy on Monday. The Civil War reconstruction era drama features thrills pulsating with love and war with Russell delivering strong performances amid a notable supporting cast.
Organized labor gains a seat on the civic central committee via the Ellis resolution. President Bisser appoints ten representatives from trades unions including Schelp Rosen dale Boeing Schmitt Breuer Lange and Kearney. Each union may send multiple reps who will decide their group's votes. The central idea is broader representation of trades.
Ray N. Anderson returns from Excelsior Springs Mo improved. Russell Foreman visits home in Pittsfield while attending a Quin cy business college. A L McDonnold spent a week in Clarksville Mo with relatives. E D Glandon builds a modern dwelling on East Washington street. Miss Erma Felter returns home from Eureka after visiting Miss Lucy Wetzel. Burt Swan injured eye by a bug while driving. eye swollen and painful. City council plans oiling Pittsfield streets. three oil shipments planned this season under Mayor George M. Smith. Rev Fenton Bartine to enter La Grange college Sept 1 after resigning local Baptist pastorate. Miss Edith Colvin visits Springfield. Rev William R Leslie returns from Evanston rural church welfare conference. Prof Herman P Hooper returns from Normal. he is East Side school principal. Charles E Bolan of Milton visits. Pike county corn prospects strong. acreage satisfactory and weather ideal. Hay crop fair to large. oats heavy and mostly saved. Wheat yield better than expected with light acreage. Honey bee possibly Asiatic origin. wild bees abundant in India and Malay archipelago.
Van Dyke Production presents Miss Sothern in KA Mother's Ordeal a drama to be seen at the Princess Thursday and Friday. Sothern plays mother and daughter with distinct personalities, showing a family likeness yet differences in character.
The play Alona, Where Do You Live? ran a year in New York at Weber's and 7000 times nationwide. It becomes a six reel feature by Newfields Producing Corp directed by Hal Clarendon. Leena Owen signs with William Fox for a new film opposite Smiling George Walsh. Goldwyn announces eight two reel Marie Dressler comedies. Gladys Hulette stars in The Cigarette Girl and The Last of the Carnabys. Marie Osborne appears in Captain Kiddo with a baby stunt sequence involving a cask and smugglers. Philo McCullough rescues a child in a seaside scene as an editor notes inventive bathtub feet and other film innovations.
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