Opera Star Geraldine Farrar Set for US Tour
Geraldine Farrar will launch an operatic tour starting in Los Angeles in October. Chaplin is at work on a comedy featuring aviation. Marie Walcamp will film thrillers in Japan for The Petals of Ze, a new serial. Kosloff the dancer to appear in a Cecil Mille directed movie. Owen Moore to join Grenville Wodehouse's Piccadilly Jim adaptation. Bill Hart named honor member of the Tipi Order. Emmy Wehlan, formerly an opera singer, enters films. Fox Film to open school for embryo scenario writers. Constance Binney as Dutch slavey in The Erstwhile Susan Realart release.
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Geraldine Farrar
Los Angeles
Church sermon blamed for young men loss
The Rev. H. G. Peile of Acton says children were overdosed with church on Sundays. He urged parents to be more considerate with their children on the Sabbath in London on September 26.
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London
H. G. Peile
Acton
Spiders Need Countless Insects For Silk Production
London reports a curiosity of nature noting that producing a pound of silk requires 1,150 silkworms moving at full speed and would demand 27,000 spiders to yield a single pound of spider web.
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London
The Third Kiss Opens at Strand Saturday
Corinne Griffith stars in The Third Kiss at the Strand following Ferguson's drama The Witness for the Defense. Missy, a factory girl, marries a big hearted man who endures trial to win her love, with a clever twist on the fated third kiss from a Paramount Artcraft production.
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Strand
Fr. Wie Ferguson
Missy
Paramount Artcraft Company
Silent film guide teases Liberty Clemmer Coliseum and Rex
Anita Stewart closes a three day run at the Liberty tonight. Saturday brings Charles Ray in The Egg Crate Wallop as he enters boxing and acting, with Doug Fairbanks in His Majesty the American ending a two week run at the Clemmer. The Westerners opens Saturday, The Misleading Widow stars Billie Burke at Coliseum, The Valley of the Giants ends a week at Rex, and A Eighth of an Inch to the Right opens at the Colonial. Friday concludes The Man Who Won featuring Harry T. Morey.
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Colisei
Alice Ready
Mareid Lieyd
Corinne Griffith
Anita Stewart
the Liberty
Charles Ray
Charles
Country Express
Doug Fairbanks
Clemmer
Stewart Edward White
Mildred Manning
Wilfred Lucas
Robert McKim
Roy Stewart
Black Hills
Pah-sep-pah
Valhalla
Wallace Reid
Alma Rubens
California
Harry T. Morey
End of the Road debut at Metropolitan Theatre
The first public showing in this city of The End of the Road stars Richard Bennett and Claire Adama and opens Sunday afternoon at the Metropolitan Theatre. The film supports a social ethics campaign urging better judgments among women and girls. Big Bill Russell leads This Hero Stuff at the Mission Saturday, a satire by Stephen Fox lampooning hero worship. Tonight ends His Bridal Night starring Alice Bray.
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Richard Bennett
Claire Adama
Metropolitan Theatre
Mission
Bill Russell
Stephen Fox
Alice Bray
Corsican Brothers Case In London Court
A London court hears a tangled case of a woman claiming a sailor is her husband while the man testifies he is the woman’s brother in law. The husband was said to have died at the Dardanelles, prompting a judge to deem it a modern Corsican Brothers scenario.
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London
Dardanelles
Cdralcan Brothers
German hosiery firm seeks British trade addresses
London dispatch notes a Cologne hosiery firm seeking to reestablish trade with Great Britain. The writer apologizes for the intrusion, says he got the North Wales firm's address from a German contact, and requests addresses of all British hosiery firms to open business. An international money order is enclosed.
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Germany
Great Britain
North Wales
Cologne
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