Novelty Bills at Princess Theater Offer Two Weeks of Acts
The Princess Theater schedules two weekly bills with acts by Sandy Shaw and Dal Rosa's Cats and Monkeys. The first half features King Brothers, Gillespie & Lockard, Hawthorne's Minstrel Maids, and more, while the second half adds Ruth and Kit Clark, Housh and La Velle, the Hayshi Troupe, and a Fox photo play The War Bride's Secret starring Virginia Pearson. The drama centers on a dairy maid who marries a Scotch lover, then returns to him after war and presumed widowhood.
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Princess Theater
Sandy Shaw
Dal Rosa
King Brothers
Gillespie & Lockard
Hayshi
William Fox
Virginia Pearson
Daughter of Gods star Annette Kellermann in new photoplay
Annette Kellermann headlines William Foxs remarkable photoplay Daughter of Gods showing in the East. Filmed in Jamaica British West Indies with a large cast, the epic features marine scenes, waterfalls and Oriental intrigue, including a 100 foot tower leap and perilous escapades. Robert Hood Bowers composed the score for the 10,000 foot film with Stuart Holmes and the Lee children among principals.
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William Fox
Annette Kellermann
Jamaica
British West Indies
Kellermann
Kingston
Miss Kellermann
Stuart Holmes
Jane
Katherine Lee
Lee
Robert Hood Bowers
Greatest answer heard on a western stage-coach trip
Elsie Balfour praises a guide's quip from a William Fox photoplay, recalling a stage-coach ride where a cliffside prompted the guide to joke that people never drop over the precipice more than once. The anecdote frames the film star's remark as the height of brevity.
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Elsie Balfour
William Fox
Fragmentary courtroom quip echoes earlier gossip
A terse exchange in a stalled scene features a mother accusing a young man of kissing her daughter with the man replying he cannot tell them apart. The judge notes the tension while a storm looms and surgeons’ mistakes are debated, reflecting a clipped, hurried vignette.
From America and the chance for presidency
A City Journal snippet contrasts American ideals with daily life. It notes that nearly every family can own a motor car, reflecting optimism about mobility and opportunity in the country.
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America
City Journal
Broadway's Broadhurst Discovers New Talent At New York Theatre
George Broadhurst champions unknowns like Regina Wallace and Rudolph Cameron gaining Broadway hits in Rich Man Poor Man and So Long Letty. He recruited Wallace after a tip from his son Basil and boosted Cam eron from Lambs Club sketches. Other discoveries include Maclyn Arbuckle and Kathleen MacDonald shaping Chicago and other stage productions.
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New York
George Broadhurst
Regina Wallace
Forty-eighth Street Theater
Broadhurst
Miss Wallace
Maximilian Foster
Yonkers
Foster
California
Basil
Rudolph Cameron
Mr. Broadhurst
Young Cameron
Maclyn Arbuckle
Smith
Kathleen MacDonald
Chicago
Ruth Chatterton
Alice Duer Miller
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