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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1922
Page
8
Reports say Wild West star Big Bill Hart and screen actress Winifred Westover separated about three months after their December 7 wedding. Hart reportedly announced the couple had parted, ending the real life romance era.
Laula B Mayer acquires personal rights to Henry Arthur Jones play The Middleman. Chaplin's latest comedy took 26 weeks to complete. Buster Keaton stars with his parents in The Electric House, linking to The Three Keatons from five years earlier. Joe Kirkwood demonstrates golf strokes in Pathe Review, notably using a gold watch as a prop without damage.
Star readers face a choice between city and outdoors men in the column about the play Which Man. Langdon McCormick, author of the piece, offers his views on the gendered dating dilemma and the characters involved.
The Star offers 24 prizes open to all for the problem about Manette in The Storm to be shown at the Columbia. Prizes include 28 00 first, second to tenth prizes, two passes for the eleventh prize, two for the twelfth and thirteenth, 2.50 for fourteenth to twenty fourth, and tickets to The Storm. Letters limited to 200 words, one side only, judges final, Star Columbia and Universal Exchange staff barred.
Letters discuss Manette and the stage drama The Storm as Columbia plans a grand reopening on August 19. Readers weigh whether the city man or the outdoorsman makes a better match for Manette, arguing that the public favors melodrama with a city villain and a nature hero.
The Strand features Theodore Roberts in If You Believe It, It’s Bo with Marion Davies and Laira Anson also in The Great Alone at the Winter Garden. Eva Novak stars Man From Hell’s River at Blue Mouse, and Liberty hosts Golden Dreams with a monkey co star. Concert shows at Colonial offer Concert with Maurice Costello and Rubye De Remer in Hia Temporary Wife.
Mrs. Luny Lucas of St. Louis recounts relief from back pain weakness and nervous fatigue after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She reports regaining strength enabling work and recommends the remedy to friends in a testimonial style advertisement.
The Reverend Neal Dodd, who joined Jack Pickford and Marilyn Miller in marriage and gave the invocation at the Will H. Haye banquet, is rushed to the Goldwyn studio to wed Thomas Meighan and Margaret Loomis. Director Marshall Neilan wants a real moving picture wedding with cameras aimed at the clergyman as he performs the ceremony for the duo in The Strangers Banquet.
The article notes Dr Dodd agrees to officiate and performs the ceremony. It reveals the officiant at the wedding of Jack and Marilyn was an impersonating clergyman who portrayed himself as a real minister.
A Tacoma man and two women from Seattle were injured when a car driven by George Racicot left the road and plunged over an embankment after a front seat passenger pressed her knee against the gear shift. Georgia Wortzkey and Margaret Parker were hospitalized with serious cuts and bruises.
Sacramento reporter notes Miss Edna Boulard telephone operator died from injuries after a Saturday auto accident.
Marilynn Miller Pickford and Jack Pickford will fly to the East by airplane to reach Boston in time for the opening of Marilynn's theatrical season on September 4.
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