Wood for President Club reorganizes at Army Navy club meeting
Officers will be elected and the organization formed at a Friday noon session. Orvis Gladden serves as temporary president as the Wood for President Club plans its formal structure.
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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1919
Page
11
Officers will be elected and the organization formed at a Friday noon session. Orvis Gladden serves as temporary president as the Wood for President Club plans its formal structure.
District residents plan a mass meeting at 8 o clock in the John RB Alien school to press for closing the dance hall at the entrance to Woodland park continuing efforts.
Mae Marah joins the Clemmer chorus in Spotlight Sadie while Mac Murray pursues a wealthy husband in The Delicious Little Devil at Colonial. Alice Brady appears as a cabaret chorus entertainer in Ned Head at the Mission. Lew Cody stars in Men Women and Money at the Strand. Ethel Clayton headlines.
Irving Cummings signs with Famous Players Lasky to star in Pacific coast pictures. Booth Tarkington sells film rights to The Gentleman from Indiana with Dustin Farnum to star. Major Robert Warwick company works in Lewiston Idaho on Told in the Housier. Across France With the Yankee Gas Hounds announced by Paramount Burton Holmes. Anna Little leads in Across France. The Avalanche features many New York society women friends of Miss Ferguson.
Olive Thomas states fashionable male suitors have shifted from loud showy temptations to the shy, innocent looking type with sweet baby chatter. She notes past Sirens would not elicit a reaction today and cites the twenty century man's preference for a milder, unobtrusive approach.
Capt. Robert Warwick U.S. Army, after 17 months in service and a year at the front, says he merely did his bit and was one of 2,000,000 Americans there. He describes trench helmets and weapons from Alsace Lorraine as trophies and stars in the new film Secret Service at Colineum, where he appears as a U.S. captain on a dangerous mission.
The Rex continues Glimpses 6 with The Spreading Evil closing Friday and Jen Willard's The Challenge of Chance premiering. Liberty shows The Man Who Turned White with H. B. Warner, while Fatty Arbuckle's The Desert Hero leads the Strand lineup. Clemmer features Spotlight Sadie with Mae March, Mission hosts Redhead with Alice Brady, and Moore presents Hearts of the World starring Lilian Gish and Robert Harron.
Northwest exhibitors from Washington Oregon Idaho and Montana convened in Seattle to announce a new organized circuit uniting 76 theatres. Officers include James Q. Flint president treasurer Frederick Mercy Yakima and others from Albany Medford Toine Bremerton and Spokane. The group aims to standardize film buying booking and business practices for the region.
Mae Murray stars as a cabaret dancer in The Delicious Little Devil at the Colonial theater. Dorothy Gish presents The Little Disturber and Robert Anderson appears as Monsieur Cuckoo in Cleverly comic performances.
Charlie Chaplin arrives with his famed comedy Sunny Side set to run next week. The article highlights Chaplin’s return to the screen and promises classic gags and charm from the silent era icon.
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