Actress Mary Pickford Starts Career at Five
Mary Pickford began in the Valentine Stock Company in Toronto at age five. She performed with The Little Red School House at eight and with Chauncey Olcott at eleven in Edmund Burke. Her Broadway debut was The Warrens of Virginia. She joined Biograph, rose from $40 to $100 weekly, then became Mary Pickford Famous Players vice president earning $2,000 weekly plus 60 percent profits. she is now the highest paid actress in motion pictures. Harold Lloyd notes family ties to Burns and Blaine.
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Mary Pickford
Valentine Stock Company
Toronto
Can
Little Red School House
Chauncey Olcott
Edmund Burke
Warrens
Virginia
David Belasco
Miss Pickford
Biograph Company
David Wark Griffith
Mary Pickford Famous Players Company
The Miracle Child leads with Sadie Mullen and Holmes Herbert
William Farnum headlines a production with Sadie Mullen as leading lady and Holmes Herbert in the heavy role. Fifty children ages three to seven appear as Sunshine Sammy in His Rascals.
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Sadie Mullen
Holmes Herbert the Heavy
William Farnum
Sunshine Sammy
Elks Lodge Talk By Seattle Counsel to Puyallup Businessmen
Walter F. Meter Seattle corporation counsel explains Elks lodge principles to local business leaders in Puyallup outlining civic service and fraternal goals.
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Puyallup
Walter F. Meter
Seattle Corporation
Elks Lodge
Back Pay heads Strand program with Seena Owen
Seena Owen stars in Back Pay at the Strand as a country girl in love with city life. The program also features George Beban in The Sign of the Rose at the Coliseum and North of the Rio Grande at the Liberty, with other cinemas showing Cameron of the Mounted and The Mysterious Rider among a full weekly line up.
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Seena Owen
Strand
Eena Owen
Mia
Elizabeth Lounaberry
Harpers Bazaar
Mine Owens
Matt Moore
Coliseum
George Beban
Ocolumima
Frank Maye
Mae
Winter Garden
Hebbart Heeworth
Pannie Hurst
Tebe Daniele
Jack Holt
Snorth
Tineten Glass
Cameron
The
Mounted
Tane Urey
David Belasco
Rio Grande
Bebe Daniela
Liberty
Beban
Elinor Faire Leads Winter Garden Usher in White Hands
Elinor Faire, famed for Kismet with Otis Skinner, stars the feminine lead in White Hands at the Winter Garden. The Hobart Bosworth production adapts a C Gardner Sullivan story with Faire delivering a notable performance.
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Hobart Bosworth
Robert McKim
Bosworth
C. Gardner Sullivan
Muriel Frances Dana
Seattle
Elinor Faire
Otis Skinner
Winter Garden
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Success Story
A Ohio mother reports her daughter suffered back and leg ache during cycles until Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound was used for two years. The daughter now works and stays strong. The testimonial urges other mothers to use the remedy.
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Lydia E. Pin
Wauseon
Ohio
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia FE. Pinkham
A.M. Burkholder
Box 1
Mother Gray
Japanese Writes to Jackie Coogan
A fan letter from Tokyo, Japan, to Jackie Coogan praises his film work and requests an up to date production update along with a portrait to adorn the reader’s study. The missive mentions seeing The Kid and Peck’s Bad Boy and expresses eager anticipation for his next film.
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Jackie Coogan
Japan
Jaky Coogan
Peck
K, Tanuichti
Tokio
Mother Advocates Healthful Exercise
A mother argues for maintaining exercise through tennis despite expense. Her daughter longs for modern sport skirts and sweaters and suggests buying on credit during Cherry's June sales, promising fashionable gear as a motive to keep active.
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Ann
Jane
Cherry's
Cherry
Rialto
2Nd Ave
Madison
Spring
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Kay
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Bebe Daniels
Paramount
Sennett
Ben Turpin
Sunset Burred
Liberty News
Malotte
Wallace Reid
Booth Tarkington
Mietorce
Tony Sarg
Almanac
Wilderness Tale
Harold Lloyd
Robert Burns
James G. Blaine
Tedin
Ren
International News
Columbia
New York
Blanche Sweet
Marshall Nelsan
Wichita
Kan
Slim Tittsworth
A. P. Cole
Snub Pollard
John Nicholas
Ralph Connor
Story of the Northwest
Colleen Moore
Universal
Frank Mayo
Royal Mounted
Fort MacLeod
Alberta
Canada
the Mounted
Colonial
de Inxe
Zane Grey
the Oak
Hellbent Wade
Robert F. Hill
Robinson Crusoe
Marion Davies
Heinz
Seville
Spain
Royal Revue Calishan
Bling
Teloak
Dean, Fell
Wille
Grote-Rankin’s
Grote-Rankin CO
Pike ST. and
Fifth Ave
Fred Niblo
Rudolph Valentino
Mary Philbin
von Stronheim
House Peters
Oliver Morosco
Morosco Holding Company, Inc
Tn Lon Angeles
Peg of My Heart
Oews Palace Hip
the Bank For
Pine St
Fourih Ave
University St
Fraser-Paterson Co
J. E. Colver
Labor Temple
Los A. Cal
A. Eley Coene
P. P
Joyner Drug Co
Spokane
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