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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1922
Page
6
The excerpt discusses Owen Moore and Marjorie Daw in the stage comedy Love Is an Awful Thing. It notes the supporting cast including Kathryn Perry and others and presents the show as a strong, real life reflecting production.
A chaotic plot centers on Leatrice Joy and Lydia as orphaned Leatrice Meighan plays a woman pursued by danger. She narrowly avoids a railroad collision, faces arrest after accepting a bribe, and is later sentenced to prison as the entangling events unfold.
Buster Keaton appears as an apprentice blacksmith in The Blacksmith a two reel silent film at the Liberty theater presented by First National with Irving Cobb’s The Dollar Baby as a second feature. Ralph Lewis plays a pawnbroker in a separate segment involving a $5 bid on a baby as part of the program.
The Columbia theater screens The Long Chance starring Henry B. Walthall Marjorie Daw Ralph Graves and B Walthall in a Peter Mary production The film features the popular character and draws a strong female lead alongside a notable ensemble cast.
This week features a slate of popular stars with Buster Keaton at Liberty and Henry Walthall at Columbia. Wanda Hawley headlines drama at Coliseum while Cecil B DeMille's Manslaughter screens at Strand. Bebe Daniels and Shirley Mason show Sunday at the Winter Garden. Comedies are chosen to kick off Smile Week.
Paramount announces a new movie The White Flower with Betty Compson in the lead. Julia Crawford Ivers wrote the story for Miss Compson after studying Honolulu locales. Director and supporting cast are yet to be selected.
A young romance unfolds in the Mojave desert featuring Harley Hennage known as the worst man in town. His flashy vest hides a heart of gold as youthful love and desert gold chase a hopeful future.
The Winter Garden presents Lille Miss Smiles starring Shirley Mason in a William Fox production about a tenement girl in New York’s lower East Side. Also showing Elaine Hammerstein in The Way of Maid for its final showings this Saturday.
Bebe Daniels stars in Nancy From Nowhere at the Colonial for three days beginning Saturday. The story by Grace Drew and Katharine Pinkerton features Migg Daniccia as a meek young woman unlike her usual playful roles. Also notes Mervyn Le Roy’s first screen fight in The Cowboy and the Lady scene at Lasky studio.
Shirley Mason stars in the photo play Little Misa Smiles shown at the Winter Garden theater Sunday. The production is described as a human drama set in New York on the Lower East Side.
Lila Lee takes on a Castilian princess part in The Ghost Breaker while Wallace Reid again stars opposite her. The article notes her prior Spanish roles in The Dictator and Blood and Sand and highlights the pairing with Reid.
Emmett King Charles McHugh George Kuwa Walter Long and Parker McConnell have been engaged to appear in the Warner Brothers screen version of F. Scott Fitzgeralds novel The Beautiful and Damned.
Readers learn from this gossip column about actors and films. It notes Theda Bara returning to work, Constance-Mary Alden in The Bond Boy with Richard Barthelmess, Mabel Ballin’s marriage to Hugo Ballin, Bebe Daniels legal trouble, and Antonio Moreno as Gloria Swanson’s leading man in My American Wife.
New York drama announces The Courtship of Miles Standish to be shot by Charles Ray. Based on Longfelsow’s tale of John Alden and Priscilla Mullens, the film will begin with the Mayflower crossing and depict Pilgrim privations. Ruth Miller headlines with Kathryn McGuire as leading lady. production follows Riley adaptation.
In Little Rock Arkansas on October 7 Walter Winkley aged 16 who weighs 214 pounds could not fit into standard classroom seating. Superintendent T. C. Abbott tried to place him in a seat and even a side window was attempted but failed. Walter will have extra days for fishing and swimming while a special seat is prepared.
Audrey Chapman has been chosen by Swedish painter Christian von Schneidau as The New World Lady Ideal and is now modeling for an older painting. The work will enter the International Artists' convention in Stockholm in late autumn. Chapman is a Gim actress with praised natural beauty and bright potential.
Lilian Gish will star in The White Sister filmed in Italy by Inspiration Pictures. Dorothy Gish appears opposite Richard Barthelmess in another project and later acts with Lilian Gish.
Hollywood news lists Wallace Worsley as director of Nobody's Money with Wallace Reid. Conrad Nagel and Pola Negri lead Bella Donna in production. Other stars include Conway Tearle Claude King Mae Murray Jane Novak and Colleen Moore with multiple projects in progress and upcoming directors.
The passage notes that a Japanese individual struggles to assimilate and learn languages, appearing not a “good mixer” though this observation is made among nearby Asian peoples. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, cited as a contributor to discussions on territories, is mentioned in the context.
Florence Ide and Jeanette Wilson, two American girls, wore skirts shorter than local norms and worn woolen stockings with tops turned down to display bare knees. They defied three officers, but a fourth officer ordered them to roll up stockings and return home.
Flora Davis admitted weighing 230 pounds and danced on a street corner. She danced to the music of the universe and was brought to the police court where the magistrate fined her fifty dollars.
English and Scotch dress goods manufacturers support the longer skirt edict issued by dressmakers. They argue extended hemlines will require more cloth and reduce unemployment in their factories.
In Manila the American steamer Rupara bound for Amoy was stopped by a coast guard cutter. Mindoro and $3000 worth of opium were seized and three Chinese were arrested.
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