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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1916
Page
8
A Seattle area sale advertises hundreds of suits and overcoats from $5.75 to $9.85 with free hats, plus discounted footwear shirts and undergarments. The event runs Saturday at 1510 First Avenue opposite the Public Market, opening 9 AM with money back if unsatisfactory.
Liberty Theatre opens today featuring Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree in The Old Folks at Home, a Rupert Hughes drama, plus a Keystone comedy. Coliseum presents Maurice and Florence Walton dance revue in The Quest of Life with a Friday night Fashion Show. Clemmer shows Emily Stevens in The Wheel of the Law, a Metro five part, and Rex enshrines Francelia Billington in The Black Sheep of the Family. Colonial brings Charlie Chaplin in The Count and A Woman's Daring with The Shielding Shadow. Class A presents My Madonna with Lucile. Mission shows Unto Those Who Sin. Strand screens The Ragged Princess with June Caprice. Eureka note on a banker accident.
The article surveys industry tidbits including Anita King inspiring a new cream complexion name, Vivian Martin in Her Father's Son, and Lasky company poets in Hollywood. It mentions marriages among actors Bessie Eyton Clark Coffy, Max Dill, and Carlyle Blackwell, plus Mary Miles Minter’s age remark and Helen Ware's California origins.
A reader questions adoption of a baby born out of wedlock and whether environment or heredity shapes character. The columnist cites varied opinions, notes past cases of successful adoptees, and invites letters from adoptive parents.
In Denver on October 20 the board of health reports many babies named for the president. A Woodrow Wilson rubber stamp is ordered to speed up bookkeeping and avoid excessive record entries.
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