Minstrels Featured at Princess Bill Week Debuts
The Princess theater opens a vaudeville week headlined by Add Hoyt's Minstrels and the John T. Doyle Players. Hoyt's troupe showcases polished solo singing and ensemble works with a period stage setting, while Doyle presents Marching Orders a two scene military comedy about codes spies and court martials. Also on the card Kimball and Kenneth banjo duo and Silver and Duval City Girl and the Rube. A feature photoplay will run weekly and New Jersey begins a July 1 card employment system to track job history in industry.
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Princess ‘Theater
Add Hoyt
John T. Doyie
Minstrels
Bones
Tambo
Jakes
John T. Doyle
Kimball
Kenneth
Silver
Duval
Banjo
Comedian Collier Spills Truth In 24 Minute Interview
Ashton Stevens of the Chicago Herald and Examiner conducts an extended interview with Willie Collier at the Holg Ew ater Beach Hotel. Collier offers quick, witty answers on Chaplin, theater hacks, curtain speeches, and fellow actors while reflecting on critics, managers, and his own career.
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Ashton Stevens
Chicago Herald and Examiner
Willie Collier
Collier
Holgewater Beach
Stevens
Chaplin
LiLy
Corse Peyton
Hamlet
London
Jack Barrymore
Joldie Ables
George Nash
Marie Doro
Charlie Frohman
Ginette
Barrie
Georgie Cohan
The Joneses Rise Again in Wartime Verse
A wartime tribute piece honors naval heroes named Jones including Davy, Jacob, and John Paul Jones. It recalls their sea battles and Latin seas, praising patriotism and calling on the living to continue the fight. The piece weaves poems and exhortations to rally behind the Allied cause.
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Green
Jacob Jones
John Paul
John Paul Jones
Glory
Pearl Theater Week Highlights Feature War Picture Lineup
The Pearl Theater presents a week of varied features headlined by Heroic France on Wednesday a real battlefield war picture from the French war office. Other attractions include High Stakes with J Barney Sherry Cleopatra starring Helen Gardner and The Dawn Maker with William S Hart. Tuesday brings The Dawn Maker and Hart in a new western, with Friday offering The Man Who Woke Up and Saturday War naugh of the Forest Rangers plus comedies and news.
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the Pearl
J. Barney Sherry
Miss Miller
San Antonio
Sunset Film Corporation
William
Hart
Charlie Ray
Helen Gardner
Cleopatra
Miss Gardner
Theda Bara
the Grand
Sennett
William S. Hart
Mr. Hart
France
Pearl
French War Office
Moving Picture
No Man's Land
William Fox
Jowell Carmen
Foxstar
Roy Stewart
Warnaugh
Forest Rangers,” & Druin
Northwest
Vitagraph
Albert W. Smith
Ning Baggott
Marguerite Snow
Keystones
Sennetts
Fox Sunshine
Fulio Pathe
Mutual War News
Musical trees in nature's orchestra
In a nature book by Royal Dixon and Frank Lynch Everett Fitch, the authors compare forests to a grand concert where every twig and leaf provides music. They describe wind, water, and rain as instruments and claim the mountains offer a limitless symphony for outdoor enthusiasts.
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Royal Dixon
Franklyn Everett Fitch
Oceanic Leaves Symphony of Winds in Tree Music
An illustrated feature describes how trees produce musical sounds with wind, noting pines as harps, oleander as voices, and bamboo-like palms as drums. The article links gusts to notes, mentions cities like Galveston, and cites autumn and winter as peak periods for certain species.
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Galveston
Tex
Gulf ‘of Mexico
Cedars
Aged Man Burns Saving Civil War Uniform in Fire
Theodore Hewlett a 78 year old Hyde Park resident suffered severe burns while saving his faded blue Civil War uniform from a frame building that burned to the ground. He saved only the uniform and his trunk held eight dollars and eighty dollars in savings. The blaze destroyed his dwelling and wardrobe.
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Hewlett
Stoutenburg
Hyde Park
New York Central
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Theodore Hewlett
Books for Soldiers Demand Adventure and Up-to-Date Topics
Soldiers favor fiction with thrills such as adventure, detectives, love stories, and historical novels. Nonfiction should cover military science, agriculture, aviation, horses, cars, wireless, or other soldierly interests. Useful texts include Platisburg Manual, post-1910 textbooks, Baedeker guides of Europe, especially Northern France and Belgium. War, trench life, and poetry remain popular.
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St. Nicholas
Ton Sawyer
Platisburg
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Princess Bill
New Jersey
Feder
Yrena
Empioyeli
Brooklyn Kagte
Princess
Moyts Minstrels
Mr. Collier
Mansfield
Lttle
Sam
Daly's
Percy Mackey
AL Woods
Henry Miller
Joneses
Johnny Drapeau
Mother Ifon
McGinty
Davy Jones
Louisville Courier-Journal
Heven
Davey Jones
Jones
Old Davy
Jacob
Seudos
Davy
Richard
Ies
Eex
Ironsides
Hull
Decatur
Preble
Perry
North Sea
Baltic
Paradise
Constance Talmadge
Vaudeville
Silver and Duvall
City Girls
Bert Lytell
California Cupids Musical Comedy Co
Beauty Chorus
Bennie Kirkland
Ruby Pilgreen
Musical Trees IN Nature
Cavanaugh OF
THE
Forest Rangers
Ross
Whs Hart
Lynch Enterprise
Wien
Pearl Today
WM. S. Hart In
Mack Sennett
WM. S. Hart
Dawn Maker
Triangle
Ursday
Jewel Carmen
Fox Play
Red Haired
Cupid
Queen Today Theater
America
Hidden Hand Pathe Serial
Hugie Mack
Leo
FOX
Peggy Hyland
Margerie Wilson
Kavanaugh
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