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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1921
Page
8
Springfield reports an unusual invasion of mosquitoes after a hot spell and heavy rains. City areas see crowds of skeeters driving residents indoors and disrupting nightly life as hordes hatch in record numbers.
Boston Aug 16 Gordon A Berdine formerly of Lynn left Norfolk county jail to milk a cow in Dedham while serving a year for breaking and entering. He wandered for 13 months, traveling via Mexico before being recaptured by Sheriffs Capen and Studley in Lynn.
Official Weather Bulletin issued three times weekly reports 57 degree mean temperature for 24 hours ending Monday noon with a trace of precipitation. Tuesday forecasts partly cloudy mornings then clear afternoons. National Parks highway to Paradise valley in excellent condition. White River road excellent to Green Water then fair above Green Water. All trails open and in good shape. Camping favorable with mosquitoes absent at Longmire and Paradise valley. Paradise Inn rooms plentiful but advance reservations advised for the weekend.
Today’s programs feature Pauline Frederick in Balvage at Strand Dick. Walton presents Short Skirts at MMEM. David Warwick Griffiths screens The Birth of a Nation at Blue Mouse. Gloria Swanson stars Ei Nor Glyn’s The Great Moment at Coliseum. Tom Moore in Made in Heaven at Linerty. Harold Lloyd in I Do at Colontal. 4ra Carewe shows A Voice in the Dark at Colontal. Romaine Wielding stars The Man Worthle at Rux. Dert Lytell headlines The Man Who at Winter Garden.
Pert Lytell stars in a Winter Garden comedy drama based on a Saturday Evening Post tale about a young man with city backing to outsmart profiteers. Also showing are Gladys Walton in Short Skirts at Clemmer, Wally Reid in Birth of a Nation scenes, Harold Lloyd in I Do at Liberty, and The Man Worth While with Don Ward at Rex, plus A Voice in the Dark at Colonial with Romney Wallace Ora Carewe Irene Rich.
Mrs Shelley Smith of West Jefferson Ohio seeks her husband John N Smith who disappeared June 26 after going to Sedalia to hire farm help. She asks the man calling himself The Alaska Wayfarer to contact Mrs Smith if he sees this notice. A 6 year old child awaits his return.
Universal Pictures starlet Miss Walton appears this week at the Clemmer in Short Skirts, playing flapper and youthful ingenue roles as she just turned eighteen.伴
The Metropolitan theater continues its third week of the film Over the Hill with a strong ensemble whose performances elevate the picture. A large augmented orchestra provides a special musical score, enhancing the overall presentation. Two daily showings are scheduled at 2:5? and 8:15 p.m.
Picture Peter Larry Lemon the Vitagraph comedian in a capitalizing comic passage from Stewart Edward White's Conjurer's Trouse about Alaska. Director Joseph Henabery will guide Jack Holt in The Call of the North his first starring picture. A daughter is born to Fred Niblo and Enid Bennett. Max Linder's Be My Wife to be released by Goldwyn. New York censors endorse the Dempsey Carpentier fight pictures.
An old advertisement touts Nuxated Iron as a concentrated organic iron supplement. It argues iron deficiency causes weakness and lists dramatic benefits through blood-count improvement, urging readers to consult a doctor, try the product for a month, and seek refunds if unsatisfied. It cites 4,000,000 users and emphasizes authentic packaging and "N. I." tablets.
Paris made phrase by Louis Mercanton set to release in America. Wallace MacDonald will be leading man for Carmel Myers in Breaking Thru a Vitagraph serial. The Beauty Shop screen version includes Raymond Hitchcock Louise Fa essent and the Fairbanks twins Marion and Madeline.
Darrell Cole, a renowned dramatic baritone known as the singing aviator in California, appears this week at the Strand with a prologue to Salvage. His recent engagements include performances at top hotels and theatres in San Francisco Berkeley Oakland and Grauman's Los Angeles.
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