Excellent new bill opens at Royal Monday
Five snappy vaudeville acts headline the Royal Theater program starting Monday. Starred by Follies of Today with Billy Adams Edith Adams and the Bunin sisters, the show includes dance and song with a six-girl chorus and special drops. Also featured are Henry and Moore in At the News Stand, Billy Batchelor Trio, Beeman and Anderson roller skating, and Kpee and Bell as comedians. Viola Dana stars in Flower of the Dusk adapted from Myrtle Reed, about a devoted daughter supporting her blind father with needlework and sacrifices.
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Royal Theater
Billy Adams
Edith Adams
Bunnin
Henry
Moore
Pat “Rooney
Miss Moore
Billy Batchelor
Kpee
Bell
Beeman and
Anderson
Viola Dana
the Royal
Myrtle Reed
Ani
Fragrant romance and dramatic intensity in Myrtle Reed play
A stage review praises a Myrtle Reed drama for emotional heart and strong dramatic force. Miss Dana leads a notable supporting cast including Guy Coombs Howard Hall Jack Mc Gowan Rue Martin Bliss Milford Margaret McWade Augustus Phillips Eleanor Hickman and others while the production charms with a youthful lovers plot.
Theatrical Office to Stage: Mary Ryan’s Early Start
Mary Ryan recalls starting as an office boy at seven in Mrs Fernandez’s agency and rising to star in The Little Leader with Cohan Harris. She first acted as a doll bearing scene atmosphere and later joined better child parts, aided by her late father’s family needs. The piece recalls her doll’s untimely death during a later acting moment.
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Jin
Fernandez
Mary Ryan
New York Evening World
Cohan & Harris
Kentucky
Department of Agriculture
State Board of Agriculture of
Allied troop audience raves as US vaudeville unit entertains France
Margaret Mayo unit led by James Forbes and performers Miss Mayo Miss Meredith Thomas Gray and Will Morrissey with Raymond Walker report wildly enthusiastic crowds in Paris gardens and a gas school camp. They describe adapting to diverse venues from Paris Tuileries to frontline huts while boosting morale for 25 000 Allied troops.
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Thomas J. Gray
Margaret Mayo
France
Haing
Ghent
Volo
Gray
Mraine
America
Miss Mayo
Margaret Mayo Ardens
Advi
James Forbes
Over There Theater League
Miss Meredith
Will Morrissey
Raymond Walker
Armerica
Tuneres Gardens
Paris
Entertainers Prepared for Field Service With Troops
A guide for entertainers assigned to a military division describes billeting in towns and field venues. It praises adaptable programs, notes the spread of tents and platforms, and acknowledges the warm reception from French army units. A soldier letters up how Will Cressy, Billy Gould, Renee Dietrich, and others drew enthusiastic applause from troops.
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M.C. A
Sergt. H. BW. Vermilye
U.S. A
Will Cressy
Helene Davis
Billy Gould
Renee Dietrich
Wright
Dietrich
Caruso
Margaret Anglin
Mr. Cressy
Palace ‘Theater
Filmnotes and Stars Dominate New York Screen Scene
Patrons startled by Tom Mix in Mr Logan U S A with soldiers in the audience. Peggy Hyland stars in A Stitch in Time, Ted Jackson story adapted for the screen. Mme Myrle Wagner White makes her screen debut in What Love Forgiver. Barbara Castleton stars in The Secret Garden with Lili Lee at Tollywood. France faces recession and production woes endangering female and crew alike.
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William Fox
New York
Tom Mix
Peggy Hyland
She Ling
London
Ted Jackson
Mme. Myrle Wagner White
Chicago Opera Company
World
Tove Forgiver
Barabam Castleton
Madame
Madame Dione
Mme
Rose Dione
Sarah Tiernhardt
Odeon
Motion Picture
Cassie
Lili Lee
Tollywood
Eneetors
Sien
Mary Pickford Leads Bond Drive in Los Angeles
Mary Pickford launched a Fourth Liberty Bond drive in Los Angeles by christening the tank Victory and signing bond receipts. Celebrities attended as the industry hoped to raise about 5 million dollars and aid the government with a propaganda film produced by Pickford, while other noted figures and romance rumors circulated.
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Mary Pickford
Los Angeles
Miss Pickford
Dr. Griffith
Cink
Los Ausolos
Dream Girl Next at Princess Theater in Paradise Valley
Woolfolk Musical Comedy stars Wallie Brooks Billy Gillette and Myrtle Delny present The Dream Girl in a fifth week at the Princess Theater. The company features 23 performers with Oriental and Nile scenes and a celebrated cast. Orini Hawley joins Caruso as leading lady in Prince Cosimo on the New York studio lot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boyle Woolfolk
Princess Theater
Wallie Books
Sin Antonio
Sambo
Myrtle Delny
Billy Gillette
William Morris
Paradise Valley
Brooks
Miss de Loy
William Morvis
Wallie Brooks
Paradise Vy
the Princess
Hiram
Caruso
Orini Hawley
Indy
Secon
Artcraft
Prince Cosimo
Mifty-sixth Street
New York
Wampus: Players Lasky, Corporation
Miss Hawley
Holyoke
Mays
Hawley
Old Bay State
New England Conservatory of Music
Cmeee
San Antonio Musical Club Benefit Recital for Hospital Aid
Maurine Dyer Willbanks Mezzo soprano joins Ericson piano Edwin Tout cello and Sergeant Fraenkel violin for a hospital aid recital at Main Avenue High School Auditorium on Tuesday October 8 at 8 15 P M Tickets 1 and 1 50 dollars and exchange days Monday and Tuesday at Thos Goggan and Bros in San Antonio.
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France
Maurine Dyer Willbanks
New York
Mr. Ericson
Edwin
Main Avenue High School
Thos. Goggan & Bros
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Princess
Paul
Constance’ Talmadge
Roy
Pantage Road
Menlo Moore
Billy and
Bunnin Sisters
Prince & Bell
Beenan & Anderson
Pat Rooney
Henry & Moore
Viola Dana i
Flower OF
Prince and Bell
Billie Batchelor
Garden of Tuileries
Ing
General Headquarters
Filmcom
Wellington
Wales
Mary Tickford Company
Taos
Harold . Pent
Drivate Pent
Paramount Artcraft
Grand ‘S
Princess Monday
Dream Girl
Mogie
Helen de Perser
Young Evans
Bley
San Antonio
Musical Club
Amelia Binghass
Ord
Mary Shaw
Frederick Warde
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