Photoplay Stars and City Film News and Local Theaters
A column highlights Florence La Badie of the Thanhouser players and her ties to Lettice Mary Pickford, noting her Biograph start and New Rochelle move. It previews Alhambra and Melbourne programs with titles like The Newly Weds' Dilemma, The Career of Waterloo Peterson, and The Nation's Peril, plus a Los Angeles park commission limit on horses in Griffin Park.
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Florence la Badie
Lettice
Mary Pickford
Flo
Biograph Company
New Rochelle
No Y
Thanhouser Players
Stabio
New York
Cardinal Richelieu
James Cruze
The
Park Commission Board of
Los Angeles
Alhambra
Waterloo Peterson
Nestor
Rex
Harracka
Northwest Mounted Police
Educational
Hudson car order and musical misadventure in Ohio
Haa orders a bright crimson Hudson with black trim and red upholstery. Trombone player Maurice Costello, a Vita graph star and former circus performer, struggles with music and is fined a dollar by a judge in East Palestine, Ohio after a short performance. The rest of the page promotes hats and a screening lineup including The Forest Vampires, Finnegan's Bomb, and Our Mutual Girl.
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Maurice Costello
Vitagraph
East Palestine
Ohio
Camtello
Margarita Flecher
Margarita
Finnegan
Seattle Elks Say Farewell to Old Quarters
Seattle Elks bade farewell to their Alaska building home after nine years. The ceremonies drew about 1000 members with delegations from Ballard and other Northwest lodges, featuring song and feasting as speakers voiced hopes for a long life in the new Fourth Ave and Spring site.
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Seattle
Mountaineers Hear Mexico City Lecture At Club
The Mountaineers dine at 6 30 at Good Eats cafeteria then visit the Commercial Club rooms for an illustrated lecture on Mexico City by Rev BE M Hill, a former Mexico City resident. Lodge construction photos from Snoqualmie Pass will be shown. The next walk will go from Sinclair Inlet to McKenna Falls and back.
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Good Eats
Commerceial Club
Mexico City
BE. M. Hill
Snoqualmie Pass
Sinclair Inlet
McKenna Falla
Wife Slayer Faces Charge of Murder
Orrin D. Morse, who shot his wife during a divorce attempt on May 6, survived a suicide attempt and now faces a second degree murder charge. The shooting occurred while the couple were seeking a divorce.
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Orrin D. Morse
Screen Highlights And Sitcoms On This Week’s Schedule
At the home until Sunday the program includes the two reel drama For the Family Honor and a comedy Hirde of Passage. Also shown are Animated Weekly No 112 topical Ma and Pa Play Poker and comedy At the Pleasant Hour. The Accusing Skeleton appears as a three reel feature and a one reel comedy completes the lineup.
Initiative bill forces landowners to set sale price
Thorwald Siegfried mailed an initiative bill to the secretary of state requiring landowners to fix a sale price for land excluding improvements for tax purposes. The state or a citizen may buy at that price, with annual rent or premium due, while absentee landlords are targeted and owner-occupiers are exempt.
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Secretary of State
Thorwald Siegfried
Burglar Triggers Divorce After Found Letters in New York
In Nelsonville New York May 15 a burglar caused William C Jenks and Esther Jenks to divorce after Jenks returned home to find a trunk broken open and love letters addressed to Mrs Jenks from Frank Veder scattered on the closet floor. The letters revealed an affair with Veder a close friend of Mrs Jenks for a year prior to the burglary.
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Nelsonville
N. Y
William C. Jenks
Esther
Jenks
Frank Veder
Date Row Ends In Slap And Slur
In Butler Pennsylvania May 15 a wife who overheard her husband arranging a date with Mayme Smith attacked the pair, seized the woman, flogged her, and dragged her to Dr. W. S. Patterson’s office. The event followed a telephone extension listen in.
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Butler, Pa
Mayme Smith
W. S. Patterson
Broadway Senior Play Promises Joan of Arc Portrait
The Broadway senior class stages an auditorium production about Joan of Arc in five acts tonight. Rehearsals span nearly two weeks and a strong turnout is expected as many cast members previously appeared in plays. Ted Griffiths, son of Chief of Police Griffiths, manages the production.
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Broadway
Joan d’Arc
Ted Griffiths
Griffiths
Dirty man gets 5 baths in jail
New York May 15 Meyer Levitz was sentenced to five baths in jail after his wife charged him with disorderly conduct. Magistrate Dodd also noted the prisoner's untidy appearance.
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New York
Meyer Levitz
Dodd
Life Story Like Cinderella For Dedham Widow
Boston May 15 A romance mirrors Cinderella as Mrs. Francis Skinner of Dedham inherits a fortune estimated at 10 million dollars after her husband dies aboard the Caronia. Former shop girl in a Boston department store she rises to wealth as the widow of a nephew of Mrs. Jack Gardner. Mrs Skinner is Sarah F E Carr daughter of a Boston tailor. She married young Skinner against his father's wishes.
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Boston
Mass
Francis Skinner
Dedham
Jack Gardner
Skinner
Sarah FE. Carr
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Hallroomes
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Haa
Cissy
Crssy Fitzgerald
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Lone Wolf
Reliable Credit House
Bradbury
Y ‘Qutfiting Co
Second Avenue
Union St
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Hilda Lane
Johnstone Bass
the Mutual Weekly
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Goodyear
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Third Ave
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Domenico Galliano
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Ludovico
Guido Rosi
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Bon Marche
Cinderella
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Seattle Engineering School
First West
Rey
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Butler Drug Co
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Albert Hansen
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Madison
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