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San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Apr 15, 1917

Page

17

Empire Theater Week Offers Variety of Screen Features

The Empire Theater lists a varied week with Sessue Hayakawa in The Bottle Imp and a Triangle comedy Her Birthday Knight plus Pathe News No 28. Dorothy Dalton headlines The Female of the Species with Know America the Land You Love second release. Friday and Saturday present As Men Love with House Peters and Myrtle Stedman and Maggie’s First False Step with Louise Fazenda and Charles Murray.

Empire Theater Sessue Hayakawa Pathe News Dorothy Dalton America Texas A. L. Westgard House Peters Myrtle Stedman Mark Sennett Lopaka Kokua Lehua Waipahu Keano H. Komshi Makale George Kuwa Rollins Guy Oliver Jabeg Neill Devil’s Mountain Pele Kono iThe Nollins Imp Gloria Marley Marcia Dorn Enid Markley Carleton Condon Howard Hickman Dorn Gertrude Claire Jim Alderdice Roy Laidlaw Gloria Carleton Arizona Marcia West Maggie

Empire Screens Two Films This Week With Laughable Mud Mess

Empire presents Maggie's Fist False Step where a car stalls in mud and brings laughter. Also shown is As Men Love starring Paul Russell, House Peters, Diana Gordon, Myrtle Stedman, Keith Gordon, and Marjorie Gordon in a melodrama of love, jealousy, and sacrifice.

Maggie House Peters Paul Russell Diana Gordon Myrtle Stedman Keith Gordon J. W. Johnston Marjorie Gordon Helen Jerome Eddy Diana Keith Paul Marjorie

The Girl From Rectors on Five Reels at Weber's Theater

Ruth MacTamney stars as the leading dancer in a dramatic picturization of Paul Potter’s comedy The Girl From Rectors. The feature ran for over 100 consecutive weeks at Rector's cabaret in New York City, highlighting a long running stage success adapted for the screen.

Rectors Paul Potter Weber's Theater New York City Ruth MacTammany Rector's

Worst Man Hater Found in Liverpool Probate Case

London April 14. Frances Graham of Liverpool widow's estate worth half a million faces court contest by cousin Hon Mrs Sybil Talbot who challenges the will. The spinster, intensely pious yet hateful of non Established Church faiths, distrusted marriage and cited slang against clergy in a diary.

London Frances Graham Liverpool Carlisle Graham Sybil Talbot Miss Graham

Swiss urged to join Allies as war pamphlets flood cantons

A Geneva propaganda drive argues Switzerland must enter the war on the Entente side. German French pamphlets claim Swiss neutrality risks independence and propose annexation of Tyrol Liechtenstein Vorarlberg and parts of Bavaria. Government urged to act, sparking indignation in German-speaking cantons.

Zurich Geneva Switzerland Germany Austria-Hungary Baden Wuertemberg Belfort England France Italy Tyrol Liechtenstein Vorarlburg Bregenz Bavaria Linlau Europe Austria Berne

Garden Theater to Reopen as Paris Singer Playhouse

Paris Singer has acquired Madison Square Garden and plans to reopen the Garden Theater in New York as a first class playhouse. The house will be remodeled and several producers hope to stage new productions there.

Garden Theater New York Paris Singer Madison Square Garden

Old and Young Enlisted in Turkish Army Report

A refugee from Smyrna describes wartime Turkey’s economy and society. He notes scarce goods, rising prices, and reliance on paper money that has devalued, with widespread enlistment across Turks Greeks Armenians and Kurds. The regime uses cereals and lignite for war needs while the front lines extend from Smyrna to Mesopotamia.

Athens Turkey Smyrna Ottoman Empire Constantinople Germany Anatolia Syria Arabia Persia Mesopotamia

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Empire the Borie Retir Ie Foust Veters Miyrtle Stedman Tn Sten Love France Graham Tomorio Locke MI Pire Poonomean Pathe Weekly Dorothy Dalton and Enid Markey Chuck Rama Aramoun ROYAL Mary Pickford Madame Butterfly Mack Sennett Keystone Comedy Louise Fazenda Charles Murray Lionel Barrymore Metro Clara Kimball Young Triangle Pictures Robert Harron Leona Graham Hawaii Lou Tellegeen WM. S. Hart and Keystone Wilfred Lucas Triangle
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