Film bill highlights and shifts at multiple theaters
Classical and comic features fill the week from Mutual Masterpicture to Alhambra and Colonial houses. Hewing to the era, the lineup includes Her Shattered Idol with a strong man romance, Chaplin comedies, The Stolen Voice with Robert Warwick, A Yankee From the West at Alhambra, Only a Messenger Boy, and Dolly Sisters in The Call of the Dance, plus a Saturday children’s program and emerging film talent Tom Mix and Bessie Eyton Selig.
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Alhambra Ending Saturday Night Screen Pair
The Alhambra shows Wallace Reid and Signe Allen in A Yankee from the West and Ford Sterling in Only a Messenger Boy as a double feature this weekend. Evening performances continue Saturday night with the two silent comedy and drama selections on the program.
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Alhambra
Signe Aven
Wallace Reid
Ford Sterling
Signe Allen
Princess Hassan in Te Cage of Golden Bars at the Palace
The week’s theater features Princess Hassan in a two act drama The Cage of Golden Bars presented in Animated Weekly with a second play The Violin Maker and a comedy Lady Baffles in the Great Sausage Mystery.
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Violin Maker
Lady Baffles
Humorist Raper Visits Seattle Meets Mayor Gill
J W Raper humorist and fan maker from the Cleveland Press toured Seattle after attending a National Humorists convention in San Francisco. He spoke with Mayor Gill and rode boulevards with Jimmy Crehan and D S Tobias in Tobias Atlantic big car. He praised Seattle as the coast’s busiest city. In Long Beach Oscar S Higgins 68 died returning from a parrot funeral.
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National Association of Humorists
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Gill
Rainier
Jimmy Crehan
D.S. Tobias
Northern Pacific
Tobias
Long Beach
Cal
Oscar S. Higgins
Japanese MP Seeks Friendly Ties as War Enters France
K Okazaki, a member of the Japanese parliament now traveling in Seattle en route to fightfronts in France, urges friendship with the United States while noting America’s naval buildup and its declared aim of preparedness against all nations. He argues England and Japan may never clash with America, despite tensions with Russia, Germany and France.
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America
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Suit against Bull Moosers group seeking campaign tolls
R Lumley of the Western Union Telegraph Co files suit in this city to recover 378.45 dollars for tolls and messenger fees claimed to be due from the last political campaign. All members of the state central committee are named as defendants.
Salted Peppered Spuds Show Potatoes Peppered By Peppers
Wa Upaca Wisconsin September 3 E J Rose a potato raiser discovers a method to salting and peppering potatoes. He plants green peppers near the potato crop and injects salt by pouring brine over the hills to produce seasoned potatoes.
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E. J. Rose
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