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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1922
Page
9
The Columbia opens Foolish Wives starring Vernon Steele and the beautiful Dupont. A young wife flirts to aid her husband’s army promotion, but he is sent to Africa where the plot climaxes.
An advertisement touts radium as a cure all for ailments from constipation to neuralgia and high blood pressure. It claims active solar rays from a wrist appliance restore circulation and nerve function, promising relief with a money back trial. The Radium Appliance Co based in Los Angeles urges readers to write for full information and offers risk-free testing.
Readers invited to submit an answer to who is the world's most foolish fool with reasoning. Prizes total 25 dollars with 10, 6, 2.60 and five 1 dollar awards. Submissions may be letters poems or any form. Contest closes in a week.
In a Municipal League address on Tuesday Mayor Caldwell urged the city to honor the existing railway purchase contract and leave bondholders to pursue a contract revision themselves. He argued that sticking to the agreement would defer broader traction fixes and trigger potential lawsuits by the bondholders.
Arthur and William Emph rent car owners seek a restraining order in superior court alleging Chief Searing instructed officers not to permit them to occupy their stand at the corner while allowing narcotics addicted drivers to monopolize the site. Chief Bearing denied the accusations.
Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Chester A. Batchelor was to address the Fifth Annual Women’s Legislative council assembly on a program titled Women Drug Addicts. The three day session at the YWCA includes reports from the Women’s Industrial Home and Clinic and the Mothers Congress convention. Only two women sit on the governing body of Soviet Russia.
Seven pictures starring Pola Negri have been bought for exhibition in the United States, signaling a new arrival of her films to American audiences.
The Coliseum screens The Good Provider and Queen of the Turf with Vera Gordon and Dove Davidson leading. At the Strand Beyond the Rocks stars Elinor Glyn Gloria Swanson and Rodolph Valentino headline a big Paramount attraction. The Oak shows Lavender and Old Lace while Thursday and Friday offer Diamond Carlisle, a Northwest mounted police tale.
Picture Patter notes Claire Windsor stars in Fools First based on Hugh McNair Kahler work and is set to be shown soon. Shannon Day appears in Isles Back Against the Wall, a Goldwyn feature at Liberty. Edwart Pepi wrote The Bachelor Daddy linked to Thomas Meighan’s latest. Sixty chorus girls join Larry Lemon's The Show, and Farle Williams stars in Dicky adapting an O Henry tale.
A local ad discusses rising rent forcing families to delay purchases and suggests buying clothes on credit as a manageable monthly payment plan. It promotes Cherry's store on Second Ave between Madison and Spring in the Rialto Building, 207, offering quality garments and easy terms.
A remedy claim describes dissolving dandruff with four ounces of liquid arvon applied at night then rubbed into the scalp. By morning most dandruff disappears and several more applications are said to destroy all signs, leaving hair fluffy glossy soft and improved.
Werner Bratty acquires Horeen rights to EB and Florence Vidor stars in The Beautiful and Damned. The Pearl Adventure is set for release. Caster De Haven debuts Christmas while The Supartan with Reginald Denny and Gertrude Astor, directed by King Baggot, shoots in Kentucky. Snub Pollard finishes The Dumb Tell. House Peters and Noa Beery join Wreckage.
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