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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1920
Page
2
The House unanimously authorized a commission to study conditions in the Virgin Islands purchased from Denmark in 1917 for 25 million dollars. About 75,000 residents live there, under naval and military governance. the panel will report findings and recommend a stable government.
A compilation of film and stage entries including titles like A Day's Measure Hell's Island A Man's Fight Prom Heed to Death The Garage and The Shepherd of the Hills. Cast mentions include Patty Arbuckle Marguerite Clark Constance Hinney Jane Caprice and O Creigh tom Hale across Strand and Strand Weekly listings.
The Strand features Marguerite Clark in A Girl Named Mary not a stunt picture but with a vivid train wreck aftermath scene. Also on bill Dustin Farnum in A Man's Fight with Spanish mission vistas and a Sing Sing sentence, plus Harold Lloyd and Charlie Chaplin comedy From Hand to Mouth with a ruckus family outing.
A Rex theatre showing of The Shepherd of the Hills adapts Harold Bell Wright’s Ozarks tale. The film combines picturesque scenery with a direct appeal to primal emotions, presenting love jealousy and hate amid a once untamed Ozark setting.
The listing highlights The Love Cheat directed by Capellani with June Caprice and Creighton Hale, Hell's Island a melodramatic photoplay, Lasca adaptation with Edith Roberts and Frank Mayo, plus a Navy film service plan by Fox Film Co. and notes on Stanton Heck height while working on Dangerous Days.
FilmMlasher Shore Acres is to be filmed by Alice Lake with James Herne s famed rural melodrama. Tom Moore Leena Owen work on The Woman Hater. Elmo Lincoln starts Fighting Thru serial. The Prince and Betty adaptation by P G Woodhouse completed. Gladys Brockwell pauses studio work daily at 4 30 for tea. Famous Players finish Eg o My Heart. The Cyclone starring Tom Mix based on Canadian mounted police. Mack Sennetts new five reel comedy due in two weeks.
Boise report says thirty dentists including two in Portland and Spokane were cited to appear Saturday before the state dental examining board to show cause why their licenses should not be revoked for alleged unprofessional acts and practices.
Paris January 14 The council of ministers authorized in a bill the construction in 1920 of naval vessels five Normandie type cruisers three scouting cruisers and 12 scouting destroyers. Detroit The Chinese man Q8 Ting wrote Miss Baker enclosing half a ten dollar bill but was intercepted by secret service men.
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