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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1916
Page
3
Germans hurled strong forces against French lines north of the Somme in violent counter attacks from Clery to the river. The war office announced Teutons were checked everywhere by French screen fire except on northern slopes where they reached French trenches.
Liberty shows a high class comedy The Social Secretary with a zingy finish as its last night feature along with His Lying Heart. Clemmer offers The Upheaval a Metro five part spectacle starring Lionel Barrymore supported by Marguerite Skirvin and a strong cast. Colonial Theatre screens The Evil Women Do with Elsie Jane Wilson as a screen vampire while Coliseum hosts Mary Miles Minter in Youths Endearing Charm and Rex presents Whispering Smith with Helen Holmes in a five act railroad drama. Strand features Ormi Hawley in Where Love Leads with Marion Barstow facing a late life and family crisis and a cast including Glenn Hume and Pauline Curley.
The Silent Battle screens at the Mission for the last time tonight with Warren Kerrigan delivering a standout performance. A brilliant young attorney battles hereditary drunkenness amid nature settings and an intertwined love triangle.
Police and officials speculated that Chicago blackmailer suspects may be tied to a badger game once successful in Seattle, draining money before arrests. Prosecutor Lundin noted conviction is hard as victims rarely testify, while Chief Beckingham suggested Chicago women could be linked to Pacific Coast networks.
Aimaro Sato, recently named Japanese ambassador to the United States, is due in Seattle soon after sailing from Japan last Sunday. He is highly Americanized and educated in Indiana with service in London, Paris, Berlin, and in Mexico and Peru.
Serbians reported seizure of the well-fortified hill 2625 east of Berna the highest peak in the Kamakchalan range after fierce hand to hand fighting. Bulgarians resisted stoutly until nearly wiped out with about 60 prisoners taken by the Serbians.
Mabel Van Buren jokes that all funny people aren’t in comics as George DuBois Proctor hides a bachelor honeymoon. A new comedy Maid Mad is near completion at Mack Sennett-Keystone. Lasky studio thrives with six companies, yet no delays for sets or props. Fred Huntley, ex-church soloist and Spanish American War veteran, stars in Fox films. Claire Alexander, 17, rises as a leading woman in Los Angeles Cub comedies. J Taylor plans an original photograhic novelty for Dustin Farnum’s A Son of Erin. Henry B. Walthall pursues muskies in Wisconsin between shoots at Essanay.
A large number of Irish rebel prisoners have been sent to internment camps in France. They are to be used for road making and for other useful work in the rear of the lines.
A reader questions why men with decayed teeth are rejected while fit others serve, urging use of dentists and questioning selective enlistment. The Star replies with cautions about dental weakness and overall fitness affecting military readiness.
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