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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1917
Page
2
The Hawaiian themed play A Daughter of the Sun by Lorin J Howard and Ralph T Kettering arrives at the Empire next Saturday evening. It centers on a sweeping love story amid island culture with a large cast and adventurous boatmen. The production is pitched as a clever, nonsexual stage relief among current season offerings.
Mrs Vernon Castle is under contract for a New Century theater production in New York arranged by Dillingham and Ziegfeld. She has spent the last two years in films. Jack Lait, known in Quincy for daily Chicago Herald stories and the play Help Wanted, has written another.
Oliver Morosco to stage One of Us at the Orpheum with Ian Claire in Polly With a Past at Belasco’s New York theater. Shuberts pull ads from three German papers, losing revenue. Lew Dockstader headlines vaudeville with a war talk routine. Daniel Frohman returns with Seven Days' Leave for Famous Players.
William Duncan and Carol Holloway star in Greater Vitagraph's outdoor melodrama The Fighting Trail shown at Quincy on Sept 12. In one scene they ride on a narrow cliff edge where Holloway nearly falls. Duncan leaps to pull her from danger as her horse slides.
German interests push into Spanish mineral assets as tensions rise over trade and resources. The move signals reliance on Spain's mineral output and a broader shift in strategy should peace emerge, with firms eyeing copper and other critical commodities.
Madrid reports German financial interests in Spain exceed those of other powers with an investment of around 2 billion pesetas during the war. German firms have acquired mines factories and mercantile houses across the country, shaping trade dynamics and complicating postwar efforts to bar central powers from global commerce.
The report notes large German presence in Spain, with estimates of about 80,000 Germans and 70,000 others who have reached the country since the war began. It claims many Germans are fit for military duty while French residents are aging or less able to compete. It describes routes through Paris and Switzerland to enter Spain, and mentions an inquiry in the French parliament into the ease of movement during wartime.
The program lists Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne in The Great Secret and The Missing Finger, Molly King in Mystery of Double Cross and Love's Sacrifice, Hearst Pathe Weekly, Mr. and Mrs. Drew Comedy, Stingaree with An Order of The Court and In The Jungle Wilds plus Love and Logs. The Great Vitagraph Serial The Fighting Trail stars William Duncan and Coral Holloway with Clara Kimball Young and Earl Williams in Her Husband and Norma Talmadge with Vandyke Brooke in Fanny's Conspiracy.
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