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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1921
Page
8
Albert de Courville’s second London revue success expands to America with Shirley Kellogg, Harry Tate, and a famed cast of 50. Critics note the producer’s ability to read public taste as his company tours stateside.
The Seattle engagement of Beggar's Opera reunites two longtime friends Mary Houlahan and Celia Turrill. Houlahan, studying music in Germany a pool of talent, met Turrill, a British mezzo soprano, before the war. Their reunion occurred Sunday night as the company opened in Beattie, with Turrill's Lucy praised as a highlight.
The De Courville Revue opens at the Metropolitan for a week starting Sunday. Jillian Shaw, famed for character work, headlines at the Moore with multiple personas. Other acts include Tunes of the Hour, aviation sketches, and a Tarzan number, with Nibla models and Quils and Queries. Wilkes Players bid farewell with Tea for Three. Palace Hip premieres a four day New Year show led by Frank Terry with Sylvia Moro and the Reckless Duo. A Pantages bill highlights Chic Supreme and child star Mixes Vilee Corbin plus several comic and dance acts. The London report notes Ruth Billington died after a stage underwater stunt.
Twenty three people were drowned when the Esthenian ship Sarema sank after colliding with the Soviet icebreaker Vingo off the Finnish coast. The vessel foundered quickly, and passengers could not reach lifeboats.
Claude M. Aitkin was elected president of the Seattle Greeters for the coming year by the largest margin in the local chapter. New officers include Rube Pierce, J. W. Ryan, W. B. Cramblett, W. Vic Moran and "Happy" Hogan, all hotel clerks from Western Washington hotels.
The Washington Mutual Savings Bank planned a Saturday party for local Boy Scouts. The event would include free roasted peanuts and a troop flag awarded to the troop with the best proportional turnout.
Beatle post No. 18 adopts a resolution urging the national headquarters of the American Legion to investigate employment of Oriental labor on U S ships departing Beattle. A second resolution backs the Unemployed Veterans club. A motion proposes salvaging 300 million feet of ruined timber in the Olympic peninsula by unemployed service men.
Fr H Seeley of Chicago and Philadelphia, famed trues expert, remains at the Washington hotel in Seattle Sunday through Tuesday January 1 to 3. He touts the Spermatic Shield as a non surgical rupture remedy with rapid opening contraction in days, backed by US government documents and recognized in England and Spain. Demonstrations will be free and non fitting.
Senator Miles Poindexter urged continued military readiness and expanded aviation fields at a Chamber of Commerce meeting. Admiral Hoogewerf announced $1.1 million in Vuget Sound navy yard work and more funding sought, with plans for aviation fields at Sand Point Camp Lewis and Bremerton.
A Decaged Athens report shows a 10-year-old boy, amid 27 arrests, leading a band of youthful outlaws causing daily thefts and daring burglaries. Police say the accused ringleader cannot be sent to reform school due to overcrowding, leaving him in limbo as the city grapples with juvenile crime.
Readable text notes Dr. Lea Roy Burton of the University of Michigan honored after graduation. Burton, a Carleton College alum, led Smith College and the University of Minnesota before returning to Michigan. Sumner reports A W elected president of the local Pi County Farm Bureau branch.
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