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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1922
Page
8
Friday opens a two day carnival at Alki Point planned by Alki community organizations. A vaudeville entertainment will be staged Friday night in the community hall followed by a bungalow apron dance Saturday night.
Coast Guard Captain orders verification of a bottle message found at Bollehook Port Angeles claiming a damaged crew from a gasboat Tyee wreck on Guilford Island 200 miles north of Vancouver B C. The dated April 4 1922 note signed Ole Johannesen says no grub and asks for aid. One Tyee vessel was seen since then and two vessels named Tyee remain linked to Odin Johnson Anncortes and a Ketchikan fisherman group.
The Western romance features Raymond Hatton arriving at the Liberty Theatre for a soon showing in His Back Against the Wall.
A promotional note extols Heinz Spaghetti as delicious tangy tomato sauce and cheese. It encourages eating spaghetti often instead of pricier meats, claiming the product is a real nutritious option.
New York May 14 Seattle is hailed as the film capital of the United States by director Marshall Neilan who says as Beatty goes the rest of the country will follow He will premiere his new mystery picture Fools First in Seattle before any other city with a print rushed to Beattie for the Coliseum theater showing Saturday
Picture Potter Mabel Van Buren stars in Beyond the Rocks at the Strand this week and is mother to Katherine Van Buren of the Seattle Stock Company at the Wilkes. Lucille Cartieleo returns with Larry Lemon in The Show at Beattie. Mina Carlisle shares the Lemon name in private life Mrs. Lemon. Arthur Freed, Seattle composer, contributed music on The Bachelor Daddy. Meighan’s new film A Spinner in the Sun links to Alfred Green who directed it. Myrtle Reed’s novel adaptation filmed by Lloyd Ingraham. By Navy order Marell Lloyd’s Sailor Made Man to be shown to 6,000 Marines. Lloyd Hughes picked by Mary Pickford for Tess of the Storm Country.
Canton Miss May 16 a county grand jury indicted Miles G Buckingham prominent Memphis insurance man and banker for murder in the first degree for killing his wife Tuesday night
Three armed men robbed the Grand View branch of Bluff Royal bank in Vancouver yesterday and escaped with 1000 to 1500 dollars. Police and deputy sheriffs are pursuing them. occupants were covered with guns as the bandits fled in a car. The report ends with a statistic about literacy in China.
Fragmentary listings mention Sten Linenty Wesley Harry Colomita Cleon and Gloria Swanson Mo Valentine in titles The New Winter Garden Queen of the Wet Vera Gordon in The Fond Wider Camille Marguerite Snow in Laven der and Old Lace.
Columbia Htm Ginbon shifts from boxing to auto racing then to film in The Bearcat at Columbia with Jillian Rich Moots. Winter Garden shows Queen of the Turf a racing melodrama with Brownie Vernon. Beyond the Rocks at Strand stars Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino. Colonial screens Camille with Alla Nazimova and Rudolph Valentino. Mig City lights up Beicol Days featuring Wesley Parry.
Little Miriam Battista, eight, leaves the New York Winter Garden show The Whirl of New York after Bello Gerry society rejection. She resumes film work in Madam Nazimova's Life for Eye for The Good Provider at the Coliseum this week, proudly tied to her archbishop grandfather of Baglioni.
The Oak screens Lavender and Old Lace with Beena Owen and Louis Rennison in dual roles while Gus Edwards performs at the Liberty this week. Marguerite Snow is featured in Lavender and Old Lace, with a rural to urban shift and a room scene that elicits laughter.
About fifty leading women in the film industry form a club with Mary Pickford as president. The group pledges to disapprove of discreditable acts by any member of their sex. It also aims to aid unemployed film actresses.
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