Grand War Picture Returns With Kaiser's Shadow on War
A wartime photoplay titled The Kaiser the Beast of Berlin returns to the Grand for one week. It portrays the Kaiser’s life, German Kultur, and wartime acts, highlighting U boats, Belgium rights, and Wilson's war aims. Also noted is a Brooklyn judge backing boys rights at a circus and criticism of wartime propaganda.
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the Waiser
New York
Chicago
Boston
Denver
Rupert Tullan
Scienatio
Whett J. Clawson
United States
Tausitania
von Neigel
Belgium
Hohenzollern
America
Gerard
Wilsen
Germany
Kaiser
Paris
Belfman
Wilson
Janes
McDermott
Brooklyn
New York Journal
John Douglas
Robert Russel
Eddie Polo Compiles A Circus Dictionary For Outsiders
Eddie Polo publishes a glossary of circus slang from his Universal serial The Lure of the Circus. The piece defines terms like Bigetop and Saw-bark and notes milde Vole’s gratitude to Mrs Webster for a reference work.
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Eddie Lola
Circus Life
Milde Vole
Webster
Kinker
Gallyho
Borneo
Dorgans
Hintaan
Ambiguous OCR Fragments Point to Obscure Phrases
Readable parts list quirky phrases such as Kid-top-Side-shows and Balls-Any and all elephants with mentions of a big nurse and a bard. The fragmentary OCR yields no clear event or person names, making a definitive news item impossible from the text.
Benefit Vaudeville Show at Mason Opera House
Frank Keown hosted a Stage Women's War Relief benefit on June 20 in Los Angeles. The Vathestar headlined in More Trouble with Maude Adams in her vaudeville debut, joined by Fannie Ward Nat Goodwin Julian Fl etc. Leopold Gadowsky performed piano on the program.
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Frank Keown
Women's War Relief
Mason Opera House
Los Angeles
Vathestar
Maude Adams
Fannie Ward
Pathe
Nat Goodwin
Julian Fltinge
Eithher
Leopold Gadowsky
Queen Mary Appears Often in Pathe War Film Portraits
In the war film Britain’s Tulwarks distributed by Pathe in the U S Queen Mary is frequently shown. American fans note her human side and the quirk of always carrying an umbrella, a trait perhaps borrowed from Queen Alexandria.
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Queen Mary
England
Britain
United States
Pathe
Alexandria
World War II Era Signal Corps Films Honor War Efforts
The United States government uses film to visualize the Great War on screen with Signal Corps and navy photographers, showing workers in factories and soldiers in trenches. The piece praises film as a powerful truth-telling stage for history.
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Signal Corps
Sherman
Philadelphia Public Ledger
United States
Uncle Sam
America
Committee On Public Information
United States Signal Corps
Navy
France
Will Release 252 Feature Photoplays
Wartime film industry pledges patriotic effort and big releases. Famous Players Lasky plans 208 features in the year starting September 7 2948 with many re issues and new stars including Mary Dicksford Douglas Wairbanks and Chorge McCain. Also notes scandalous city girl story and railroad freight losses farmers cattle and soldiers fed by 20 days.
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United States
America
Ware
Aleph Zukor
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation
Liberty Loans
Red Cross
Fone
Secretary of the Treasury
Rha
Vlavers-Lasky Corporation
Paramount
Artcraft
Wred Stone
John Barrymore
Ethel Clayton
Dorothy Gish
Litt Lee
Shirley Mason
Jtryant Washburn
Mary Dickford
Douglas Wairbanks
Chorge McCain
Elsie Ferguson
William S. Uart
Marcguerite Clark
Enid Bennett
Billie Burke
Lina Cavalieri
Dorothy Patton
Pauline Trederick
Vivian Martin
Charles Ray
War Work Is First Consideration in Every Movie Director's Office
The article argues that war work dominates New York theater planning, with all sectors from vaudeville to motion pictures aligning to support the government. It notes changes to cantonment and Liberty theater arrangements, calls for volunteer entertainment, and highlights a Pershing Stadium gymkhana honoring allied soldiers and veterans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
St. Louis Republic
Red Cross
Fifth Avenue
Ian
Ltere
Liberty
Companics
Liberty Theaters
Arew
Cantonments
Eael
France
Military Intelligence Bureau
Bronx
New York Guard
Wddition
Belgium
United States
Canada
Great Britain
Italy
Moon Eclipses, Myths, and Ancient Beliefs Across Cultures
A survey of how eclipses shaped early worship and superstition. The moon’s connection to tides, water gods, and celestial omens is traced through Chinese, Greek, and other traditions, with notes on Columbus and mythic interpretations of solar and lunar eclipses.
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Kansas City
Earth
South Pacific Ocean
Christopher Columbus
Anaxagogvnus
Moon Myths and Science Across Civilizations
The article traces lunar influence from ancient omens and eclipses to religious symbols in Persia, Byzantium, and the Turks. It contrasts superstition with science after Galileo, noting moon myths, beliefs about tides and agriculture, and the moon as a perennial source of wonder and poetry.
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Thucydides
Nicjas
Ephesus
Cuzco
Philip
Alexander the Great
Byzantium
Galileo
Women as Mail Clerks Sought Amid Post Office Shortage
Local post office seeks more women to join the mail clerks due to a clerk shortage. Competitive open exam at the custom house for ages 18 to 45 with salaries starting at 800 dollars yearly and rising to 1200. Boys now serve as special delivery carriers. women as carriers unlikely soon.
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Board of Civil Service Examiners
Custom House
Baltimore Sun
Postal Service
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Berlin
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Jaztoo Plain Garden
Ty Ervey Eircis
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TOF
Gerli
Lamo Alide
Yellow Dog
Europe
Kultur and
Battle Fields
Motion Pictures National Reed
Scandaloun
Robert Browning
Gladys
Leehange
Birmingham Ags Herald
Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle
Mack Sennett
BOY Scouts
The
Boy Scouts of America
Fox
Sunshine Comedy
Frank Keenan
Chas. Ray
the Coward
King Baggott
Alma Rubens
Harry Morey
Vitagraph
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