Foolish Wives Contest Sparks Bookish Feats and Prizes
A quirky newspaper contest offers a $50 prize for identifying historic wives in literature and history. Readers match names like Adriana, Cleopatra, Moll Flanders, Guinevere, Hermione, Lady Macbeth, and Pandora to clues, with a long list of candidates mentioned and a new dance trend noted at the end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fatima
Blue
Moll Flanders
Defoe
Moll
Flanders
Guinevere
Arthur
Polly Peacham
Gay
Roxana
Alexander the Great
Edelen
Menelaus
Hermione
Cadmaa
Mars
Venus
Justinian
Niobe
Lecretia di Borgia
Alexander VI
Ferrara
Elsie
Longfellow
Foolish Wives Contest Runs 12 Days in Seattle Star
The Foolish Wives contest spans 12 days starting Saturday April and ends Friday April 21. Each day prints a famous Foolish Wife image with 26 names. contestants clip the picture, write the represented name, and mail all 12 answers after the close for prizes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prises
Mark
Seattle Star
The Rosary at Coliseum and Other Week Screenings
The Strand presents The Rosary as a dancing revue in conjunction with Gloria Swan son’s Her Husband's Trademark. Winter Garden shows Sisters Kathleen Norris drama with Leena Owen Gladys Leslie and Matt Moore. The Columbia features The Dangerous Little Demon with Miss Prevost. Coliseum screens The Rosary with Captain Mc Tavish. Liberty hosts The Green Temptation with Betty Compson. Oak offers Lets Be Fashionable starring Mildred Considine Doris May and Douglas MacLean. Flickerville gossip says Joe Stork heads to Buster Keaton home in Hollywood to join era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winter Garden
Kathleen Norris
Leena Owen
Gladys Leslie
Matt Moore
Marie Prevent
Miss Prevost
Columbia
Betty Compson
Paramount
Liberty
Theodore Kosloff
Oak Ee
Northwest
Play At the Oak
Mildred Considine
Seattle
Doris May
Tacoma
Douglas MacLean
Movies of Tribe in Training Shown at Liberty Theater
Motion pictures of the Seattle baseball team in training camp are shown at the Liberty theater this week. The films depict the players performing their regular stunts at the Stockton camp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribe
Liberty Motion Pictures
Seattle
Liberty Theater
Stockton
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Jane Husbands
Gerlain
Gorgeous Goum
York
Girla
Mias Swanson
Elmer Floyd
John Savage
Butler Hotel
Seneca
Wineland’s
Baby Marie Osborne
Pathe
Buster Keaton
Virginia Faire
Billy Joy
Beatrice Joy
The
Adriana
Antipholos
Alcmena
Amphitryon
Hercules
Amytia
Nebuchadnessar
Ann Boleyn
Henry Villa Cleopatra
Serpent
Dora Copperfield
Dickens
David Copperfield
Dido
Carthage
Maurice
Constance Talmadge Fox Trot
Ee As
Soioral Shaw
Zane Grey
Viola Dana
Harold Lloyd
Kapt
Kidd’s
Goldenrod Melody
Winter Garde
Strand
Qoloria Swanson
Fioyd
Swanson
Joe Stork
Hollywood
Flickerville
Joe
Ja. Keaton
Omhedian
Natalie Talmadge
Norma
Connie
Ranard
Toot
Gibson
Helen Johnson
Miss Johnson
St. Louis
Moore Theater
Pat Rooney
Rosary
Coliseum
Lewis
Stone
James Oliver Curwood
Sergius
Philanderere
Anita Stewart
Marian Wheaton
Marie Broulette
U. of W
Jane Novak
Lewis Stone
Wallace Beery
Mildred June
Norma Talmadge
Mrs. Kathryn Miracle
Justice
Grote-Rankin’s
Grote-Rankin
Pike ST
Wilton Rugs
Edith Roberts
A. C
Jack London
Lester Cuneo
San Francisco
Mesmeric
Danemrous
Little Demon
Frye
Lenduy
Moran
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