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Quincy Whig

Location

Quincy, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Sep 10, 1916

Page

16

Motion Pictures Vaudeville Opens at Orpheum

Vaudeville opens for the Orpheum Monday matinee featuring Mack Allbright and Mack, Norwood and Hail, Cummins and Slaham as two real eccentrics, Henry and Adélaide dancing act, Monroe Healy and Joyce with the laughing skit In a Business Proposal.

Orpheum Mack, Allbright Mack Norwood Hail Cummins Slaham Henry Adélaide Monroe Healy Joyce

Orpheum Players Say Farewell To Quincy With The Newlyweds

At the Orpheum two more performances of The Newlyweds mark a farewell for the Orpheum Players. The company regrets leaving Quincy after an engagement praised for pep and merit. A big closing show tonight precedes a winter hiatus, with plans to return bigger and better in spring.

Orpheum Mr. Williams

This Week's Features At Savoy and Other Theaters

The week presents Savoy listings with Bessie Barriscale in The Payment, Douglas Fairbanks in The Halfbreed, Gloria's Romance with Henry Kolker and Billie Burke, Florence in Doorsteps, and Fay Tincher in Bedelia's Bluff. Colonial, Belasco, Princess, Fanily, Bijou, Quincy, and Selig Tribunt weekly show varied reels. William N Selig sells a half interest in The Crisis to Elliot & Sherman for 250000.

Savoy Bessie Barriscale Douglas Fairbanks Henry Kolker Billie Burk Gloria Florence Gem Fay Tincher Bedelia Keystone Amelia Charlie Chaplin William N. Selig Etliott & Sherman Film Corporation of Minneapolis H. A. Sherman

Reel Life Ties Form Kleine-Edison-Selig-Essanay Pact

Glimpses of reels from dissolving V. L. S. E. surface in new Kleine-Edison-Selig-Essanay distribution. Twenty three Kleine offices will handle five to eight reel films on open booking. New deal effective Saturday the 16th, uniting four long established studios in filmland with Chicago figures George Kleine George K Spoor and William N Selig. Also notes on The Girl from Frisco serial at Quincy theater for 15 weeks and features The Beast with Anna Luther at Belasco, Pauline Frederick re-signs with Famous Players two year contract confirming screen star status. The World's Great Snare at Paramount. Phyllis Page in The Payment at Savoy with labor strike backdrop.

Kleine-Edison-Selig-Essanay Kleine Distributing Selig Eesaway Filmland Chicago George Kleine George K. Spoor William N. Selig Chicago Picture Men Pauline Frederick Famous Players Hail Caine Famous Players Film Company Miss Frederick Paramount Pictures Phyllis Page Bessie Barriscale Savoy Theater Phyllis

Shoes at Star Theater Delivers A Grim Lesson

A film drama based on Jane Addams An Ancient Evil follows a girl who leaves home for New York to pursue art, facing poverty and an abusive father while striving for three meals and a bed. Mary MacLaren stars as the lead as the family’s endless bills trap her from new shoes.

New York Star Theater Jane Addans Mary MacLaren

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Motion Pictures the Star Ou cHannés -Weavor Barry O'Netl Colonial Brigadier Gerard Alice Howell Herbert Rawlinson Capital Prize Dorothy Davenport Emory Johinson Belasco the Quitter Lionel Barrymore George Walsh Anna Luther the Beast Lou Tellegen Explorer” Pennington Susie Snowflake Pauline Prederick Marguerite Clark Fanily Kathleen Williams Viola Smith Tien and Bud A ._Western Governor's Ifhumanity Vinnie Burns Hint Arizona Ethel Tears Romeo G. M. Anderson D. L. Don Madam X Peg O' the Ring Martin Street Fatty Voss Harry Colmas Firay Helen Gibson Blanch Sweet Francis NM Bushman Star Ethel Clayton Bijou Lew Sniller Quincy Frisco Robert Haren Selig Tribunt Mary Fuller Harry Carey Olive Fuller Golden Pearl White Marguerite Nichols Tom Mix William Walker Belle Bruce Ivy Close Ham and Bud Quincy Theater Beast William Fox Miss Luther Frederick the Great E. Phillips Oppenheim Paramount Lou Tellengen In the Explorer Wm. Fox George, Walsh and Anna Luther Broadway Ham Butlin Western Governors Humanity Gov. Hunt Ethel Teare Coal Wagon Norwood & Halli Mack, Albright & Mack Cummins & Slaham Henry & Adelaide Monroe, Healy & Joyce Matinee The Mr. Lew Sniller Bessie Barriscale WM. Desmond Tadahaa LY Berri Creeny
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