Local Photoplay Houses Feature Wide Drama and Comedy
A survey of Coliseum and nearby venues highlights Miorence Vidor in Yvonne, Josie Sedgwick’s shift to society drama in Hell's End, and Kaiser Wilhelm given a dramatic fate in To Hell With the Kaiser. Other bills include Triple Trouble with Charlie Chaplin and Bryant Washburn in The Ghost of the Rancho at the Mission.
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Coliseum
Miorence Vidor
Vidor
Yvonne
Josie Sedgwick
Josie
Orpheum
Kaiser Wilhelm
Charlie Chaplin
Mission
Bryant Washburn
the Mission
George Fawcett
Mr. Washburn Hives
Bryant IV
Hollywood
Cal
Levy
Popular Actress Back at Wilkes for New Season
Seattle theatergoers welcome Grace Huff to lead the Wilkes cast for the coming season opening with Romance on Sunday. The Metropolitan Theatre schedules Why Marry for four nights starting September 29 with the original New York company including Nat C. Goodwin and Edmund Breese heading the lineup at Palace Hip. Walter Baker and company headline the new show with illusion tricks, rector Weber and Talbert sing, Reo and Helmar perform strength feats, Dale Wilson entertains as a singing comedienne, and Seymour and Dupree offer refined vaudeville stunts.
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Seattle
Grace Huff
Wilkes Players
Wilkes Theatre
Metropolitan Theatre
Jesse Lynch Wililarma
Metropolitan
New York
Nat C. Goodwin
Edmund Breese
Ernest Lawford
Leonard Mudie
Lotus Robb
Louis Randolph
Anne Morrison
Walter Baker and
Palace Hip
Baker
Albini
Rector
Weber
Talbert
Reo
Helmar
Dale Wilson
Seymour
Dupree
Kipp
Kippy
Cigarette Keeps Soldiers Fighting in Trench Hardship
A British Army corporal Jack Turner poem from a Ping-tieh paper highlights a smoker’s solace in combat. The verses describe frigid mud, shelling, and exhaustion, then claim a cigarette steadies nerves, sustains morale, and eases pain. The piece notes tobacco as essential for frontline soldiers despite wartime deprivations.
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Corp
Jack Turner
Pingtieh
Youngest Marine Is Crack Shot
Private Andrew Kennedy Long of the U.S. Marines, age 15 and reportedly the “baby of the marine corps,” lives in Washington D C and hails from a long line of military service. At Paris Island rifle range he is noted as a remarkable marksman with exceptional health and stamina.
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Washington
Dpd. C
Andrew Kennedy Long
U. S. Marines
Andrew
Marine Corps
Munroe St
N. W
Long
H. D. IF. Long
Andrew Kennedy
Marine Training
Paria Island
8 C
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Star-Liberty Weekly
Pike
Strand Theatre
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Clemmer
Baree
Kazan
James Oliver Curwood
Red Book
Northland
Featuring
Nell Shipman
the Woman
Alaabs
OUR
Levy's
Colonial
Redve
France
Red Cross
Marguerite Courtot
Ray McKee
Raree
Liberty
Hen Turpin
Uncle Sam
Vladivostok
Millie Marke
Thomas Bantehi
Prital Turnette
Tiessie Myton
Stull
Joseph Arthur
Millie Burke
Alfred Whitman
Hares
Karan Levy
Olive Ted
Laurence Grant
Kaeleer
Colmmnum Mryant Washbarn
Colontal
Marguerite Courtet
Ueyant Waeelhhorn
Ae—William Desmond
Wilkes
Wilkes Star
Union Store
Tin Tlol
Bounds
Macfarlane & Hall Elliott
Lowman
Washington Title Insurance
Ces
Watson
Coset
Occidental Ave
Main St
Ohio
Dentists University
Frite
Horne
Prite
George B. Newland
N. EB. A
Lewvvyy
Madison
Chaplin
First Ave
Washington ST
Right Drug CO
United Painless Dentists
Gos Third Ave
Col. James
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