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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1912
Page
8
A photographer recounts the discomfort and risk of taking pictures from a hydroplane. Wind from San Francisco Bay, murky air, mud on the plane, and the tense prep by Silas Christofferson and crew set the stage for an aerial shoot.
A compact theatre roundup lists acts and stars for a week of shows including Valeska Suratt Alice Mazee Lester Paul Hayese Raymond Natalie Alt Ralph Herz and others. The Quaker Girl is noted with Natalie Alt in the lead and various sideshow performances including minstrel numbers jugglers and acrobats are described.
This week at area houses Moore presents The Blue Bird while Metropolitan shows Dark. Seattle Stock Co performs in Arizona. Orpheum features Cressy and Dayne in vaudeville. Empress offers Fun at Ses with vaudeville. Pantages debuts The Surf Bathers with vaudeville. Grand shows vaudeville and motion pictures. Clemmers and Melbourne, Alhambra present photoplays.
Valeska Suratt stars in The Kiss Waltz at the Moore theatre next week. The New York Casino musical success draws top local crowds as the road company that wowed Broadway performs the show.
The Quaker Girl comes to the Metropolitan Theatre in a 19th century musical romance production. The show features lively songs and a scenic sense of period Britain with buoyant performances by the principal cast.
President-elect Woodrow Wilson marked his 56th birthday in Staunton Virginia as the city joined a mass celebration with over 26 000 residents taking part. Frank Ware who once carried a young Wilson greeted him, and Wilson stayed with Dr M Fraser at the church manse linked to the Wilson family. Eddie case trial in Los Angeles resumes Monday after a Saturday recess.
Bailey and Mitchell stage Shore Acres at the Seattle theatre next week for the New Year attraction. The show marks an old timer still going strong amid newer acts on the circuit.
Ralph Herz and Minnie Depree top the Orpheum bill next week with Depree in Alfred Sutro's Man in Front. Herz is famed for Madam Sherry and Dr De Luxe and is noted as Lulu Glaser's ex husband. The Amoras Sisters French bring a singing and dancing act. Seeley and
Next week at the Pantages theatre the Six Abdullah Arabe headliners present Sporta and Pastimes of the Desert. Alice Teddy billed as the world’s only roller skating bear returns, with The Four Burne Staters in a musical turn along with Josh Dale the Alabama Kid. The Melnottelande wire walkers from Ringling and Dugan and Raymond complete the lineup.
Headlining the Empress will be Nick's Roller-Skating Girls. Grant Gardner billed as the merry music box, a blackface comedian. Frank Pierce and Alice Maree, Palmer Moore and Florence Elliott, Lee Jardys, Campbell and MacDonald with Bits share the stage in a varied program.
A rugged speaker rejects books and poetry, claiming deep knowledge of woods, wind, and wild creatures. He boasts practical survival skills from camping and tracking, challenging the supposed superiority of educated “wise” folks and hinting at others who share his respect for nature.
Everett reports wage increases for city workers after election results. The Blue Bird play by Macterninck discussed by Rev Dansian at the YMCA. Mme Bernice de Pasquali invited for a reception by Seattle Verein Arion. Vallejo notes Coxewall Wells of the gunboat Vicksburg drowned after a launch collision. Black Rock Oregon records Wyatt Company store fire causing $5,000 loss and Polk county’s largest store destroyed.
A jumble of short items notes a Progressive Christmas event in Chicago, Orson Canarro, blind for 19 years, will regain sight after an operation in Philadelphia, a monkeys vs cats altercation aboard a battleship in naval humor, and varied dispatches from New York to Seattle including a dog saved from execution in Belleville and a mayoral irrigation visit in Brewster.
Reports from Bremerton Aberdeen Tacoma and Walla Walla note various incidents including a quarantine at Washington Veterans Home due to smallpox and an inmate's illness, a missing person alert from December 14, a wealthy property owner ill in Oakland, naval base discussions in Havana, and mediation efforts over a textile strike in Little Falls New York with wage reductions cited.
A narrator recounts a perilous ascent with Christofferson in a warping plane. The craft lifts, turbulence and wind tear away camera gear, and the pair execute a spiraling descent toward shore. Spectators call the landing graceful, likening it to a wild goose.
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