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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1913
Page
8
The Seattle theatre presents Edward Sheldon's The Nigger a dramatic play about Clifton Noyes pressuring a governor over a prohibition veto. The production at Seattle theatre offers popular prices with bargain nights and 25 cent seats, at Third Avenue and Cherry Street.
In the Beattie theatre dressing room Miss Ida Adair rejects claims interviews lack value. She challenges reporters to publish the actual conversations and questions the realism of second hand recaps. She jokes about how interviews are printed and the dialogue unfolds with wit and charm.
Subscribers were urged to notify the Circulation Department if papers failed to arrive by night, asking for courtesy and attention to ensure timely Starfire delivery. A Balem farmer with metal hands, Gilb er t W Pukheiger, was noted, as were multiple city items from Los Angeles to Portland involving death, theft, and a pilot's ashes to be sealed in concrete and cast into the Pacific.
Reported in Springfield Illinois where Harvard psychologist Professor Charles Coburn trains five mice to sing with canary like tones. Other items note political changes, labor organizing, fatal findings, suffrage vote, and local incidents across multiple U S cities.
A condensed notice lists performances by Moore Nordica in concert alongside various vaudeville offerings at Seattle venues including Metropolitan Ben Hur, Orpheum Empress Pantages Grand and several photoplays houses. The listings reflect a bustling program of live acts and motion pictures across multiple theaters.
Madame Lillian Nordica dramatic soprano headlines a Moore Theatre concert in Seattle tonight. Accompanists William Morse Rummel on viola and Romayne Simmons on piano join Nordica for a program expected to draw a large audience.
The Grand theater filled on Sunday as Leon De Wald and Eltinge headlined a vaudeville program. The rest of the vaudeville and motion pictures provided continued entertainment throughout the day.
The page lists shows at Dream Until Wednesday and Ye College Playhouse along with performances at the Union Circuit Melbourne and Grand venues. Titles include A Tale of Old Tahiti A Serenade by Proxy The Genet The Part Played by Air in Respiration Poison Ivy The Faithful Servant and more.
New showing of medium size hemp walking hats in cardinal brown tan black and blue with hemp band trim and quill accents priced at 3.95. Close fitting turbans of rough straw braid in cardinal blue gray trimmed with velvet and taffeta bows at 3.75. Hair braid turbans with rosette and pivot edged ribbon at 3.95. Hemp sailor hats with velvet ribbon band and colored brims at 3. Small black hair braid turbans with velvet facing at 3.75. Marine turbans in black gray pink blue with velvet facing and taffeta ribbon at 3.95.
Hats in small and medium sizes feature June or crushed roses and foliage with trims of roses ostrich or ribbon. New color combinations offered at prices $7.50 and $8.50 during a department sale.
Catalog of fabrics including Cotton Crepe 27 in at 19¢ yd Pique 27 in 25c yd Figured Pique 27 in 35c yd Mercerized Batiste 45 in 35c to 75c yd Ramie Linens six in 65c yd White Flaxons 32 in 25c or 45c yd New Zephyr Ginghams 32 in 25c yd Phantom Cloth sheer nainsook for undermustlins special 2.75 yd First Floor.
Parcel Post free delivery offered for dry goods in Washington Alaska Oregon Idaho and Montana. Parcels must not exceed 11 pounds or 72 inches in length and girth combined under Parcel Post rules.
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