Stage Listings at Coliseum and Colony Theaters
The page catalogs film showings and star names across venues including Coliseum Hillie Marke in The Widow and Colonial Alma Rubens in An Inch to the Right plus Metropolitan Richard Bennett in The Bed of the Road. Also noted are Kedward White’s and Mary Carey appearances with varying titles and second weeks of runs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billie Burke
Coliseum
Charles Ray
Liberty
Millionaire
Factory Girl
Strand
Metropolitan
Richard Bennet
Vice
Clemmer
Big Bill Russell
Rex
Harry Carey
Alma Rubens
Colonial
Robert McKim
Billie Burks
Claire Adams
Ems
William Russell
Mission
Bare Fists
Little
Hillie Marke
Ray Liberty Puts On Punchy Show In The Exe Crate
Ray packs a punch in The Exe Crate at the Lib today. He knocks a crooked pug in the roped arena and claims a victory with his crate wallop developed from egg crates while working as an express agent in his hometown.
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Ray
Lib
Express
Coliseum Presents The Misleading Widow Comedy at Coliseum
Peter Rymill discovers his wife has announced his death in South as Billie Burke stars in The Misleading Widow at the Coliseum. Adapted from F. Tenniyson Jessé's stage success, the film promises light humor and a charming lead performance.
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South
Peter Rymill
Billie Burke
Bil “ F. Tenniyson Jessé
The Westerner draws crowd with clash over Custer massacre
A silent film review describes The Westerner featuring Roy Stewart and Mildred Manning. It centers on the Custer massacre amid the white invasion and the Dakota conflict. The production boasts history correctness and a blend of romance pathos and comedy.
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Custer
Dakotas
The Third Kiss
The fragment lists actors and names including Harrison Ford Rupert Bawlf Robert Ellis Kathleen Kirkham Paton and Edna Mae Cooper Rieke Jane Keckley. It hints at a cast listing for a Strand-era production titled The Third Kiss with multiple performers.
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Nc Decvessee
Ccseoe- Viwign
Martin Cuomo
Harrison Ford
Rupert Bawif
Robert Ellis Thia Bawif
Kathleen Kirkham
Paton
Thomas D. Persse Finn
Edna Mae Cooper Rieke Jane Keckley
Farrar Declines Carriage Ride Amid Parade Chaos
Geraldine Farrar refused to ride in a parade carriage during a Goldwyn film scene. Donkeys camels and horses appeared, and the star watched during first rehearsal as camels caused a wreck tearing the carriage apart. Farrar called it temperament but cited plain American hunch.
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Geraldine Farrar
Goldwyn
Miss Farrar
Harves
Mies Farrar
Checkers Held Over at the Rex in Melo Drama Revival
Thomas J. Carrigan stars as the title role in Checkers the screen version of the big race track melodrama. The Rex will show the film for another week.
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Thomas J. Carrigan
End of the Road opens at the Metropolitan Sunday
The photo play The End of the Road conceived by Dr Katherine Dent Davis opens at the Metropolitan Sunday afternoon. Richard Bennett, famous for Damaged Goods, is the featured player in the program alongside Mary Logan and Claire Adama Howard Lord.
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Publie Health Filma
Philip Bell
Richard Bennett
Mary Log Oe
Claire Adama Howard Lord
Hay McKee Vera Wagner
Joyce Fair
Katherine Fement Davis
New York City
Metropolitan
Alma Rubens Stars in An Eighth of an Inch to the Right
Alma Rubens returns to the screen at the Colonial in a dance hall girl role in An Eighth of an Inch to the Right. The feature includes a preacher gunman romance and a bar-room fight as key moments of the picture.
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Alma Rubens
Colonial Today
Would Do Away With Tax on Movie Shows
Congressman Julius Kahn of California introduces Bill No 8493 to repeal the three taxes on motion picture theatres. Louis F Blumenthal of New York chairs exhibitor committees pushing the repeal as hearings near. Petitions from movie patrons flood Congress.
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Julius Kahn
House of Representatives
California
Congress
Louis F. Blumenthal
New York
Joseph W. Fordney
House Committee On Ways and Means
Wedlocked at Class A Theatre Sees Louise Glaum in New Dramatic Role
Louise Glaum, famed as the peacock vampire, abandons seductive parts for straight drama in Paralta's Wedlocked. She stars as a young girl who endures society’s harsh persecutions with noble heart as Class A presents the play Sunday.
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Louise Glaum
Peacock Vampire
Mission This Hero Stuff opens with a witty satire
The five act comedy This Hero Stuff opens at the Mission today. Stephen Fox lampoons hero worship while Bill Russell plays the heroic lead in a merry, sparkling farce.
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Mission Today
Bill Russell
Stephen Fox
Bill
Film Stars and Hogs Highlight Long Island Producer News
William Farnum raises hogs and vegetables on his Long Island country home. Vitagraph signs star Williams to a multi year contract making him highly paid. May Louise joins Cuckoo Comedies by Mark M. Dintenfass. Willam Stowell travels to Cape Town for Universal big game hunting pictures. Louise Lovely to visit New York soon. Oral Humphrey supports Marguerite Clark in All of a Sudden Peggy after leaving the screen. Clara Kimball Young guests Admiral Rodman aboard the Wyoming during fleet visit. Theodore Roberts marks fifth motion picture year with a new Famous Players Lasky contract. He has no wish to return to stage.
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Willam Stowell
Dorothy Phillips
Cape Town
South Africa
Universal
Theodore Roberts
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation
Theatre tickets in Melang offer odd wooden size monogram
Theatre tickets to a cinema in Melang Dutch East Indies are made of wood eleven inches long and four inches wide. The manager notes Chinese patrons prefer visible purchases. The theatre has dropped Chaplin films as attendance ran high.
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Melang
Dutch East Indies
Skunk Put Down After Studio Stir At Paramount Artcraft
A skunk hired for filming at the Famous Players Lasky studio in New York caused complaints to the health board and was shot. A nearby drug store saw a rush in sales of fumes as bystanders reacted to the incident.
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New York
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation
Paramount Artcraft
Board of Health
Jack Pickford Joins Goldwyn Stars at Culver City Studios
Jack Pickford arrives as a new Goldwyn star at Culver City studios. Director Harry Beaumont welcomes him aboard as he marks his 23rd birthday and aligns with fellow Goldwyn stars Geraldine Farrar Pauline Frederick Mabel Normand and Tom Moore.
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Jack Pickford
New Goldwyn Star
Culver City Studios
Harry Beaumont
Culver City
Goldwyn
Mary
Geraldine Farrar
Pauline Frederick
Mabel Normand
Tom Moore
Star Visits Turn Dedham Into Gossip Town
Realart star Mary Miles Minter visits Dedham Massachusetts causing a scene as she stays at a hotel. Town youths chorus follows her and curls become the fashion while the town awaits her role in Anne of the Green Gables film production.
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Dedham
Massachusetts
Mary
Mines Minter
Emil Rosset Joins Guterson Orchestra at Clemmer Theatre
Emil Rosset a Paria Conservatory of Music graduate has joined the Guterson orchestra at the Clemmer theatre. He will perform a violin solo from Thais as a Clemmer show feature opening today.
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Emil Rosset
Paria Conservatory of Music
Guterson
Clemmer
Rosset
Ince Makes Good In Tennis Tournament
Ralph Ince excels in a Long Island tennis tournament reaching the semi finals with one more match to win for the cup. If he secures victory he will be backed by the Selznick studio force against champion Johnston for national honors.
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Ralph Ince
Ince
Long Island
Ralph
Selznick Studio Force
Johnston
Miss Minter Debuts Realart Production
Miss Minter makes her first Realart appearance in a production described as a principal locale feature, marking a notable debut for the actress with the studio.
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Miss Minter
Realart
Peggy Has Ideas Concerning Love
Peggy Hyland a Fox Pictures star offers views on love. She says a young woman cannot love wisely the first man she loves and that first love is often misled by a handsome villain. Only through experience in love can she judge men truly.
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Peggy Hyland
Fox Pictures
Peggy
Catler’s Stop Sparks London Pub Banter on War
Wallace Reid reports a British navy dischargee named Catler in a London pub. He questions the drink shown as Victory ale and quips that if this is victory the war is lost. The line captures wartime sentiment and humor in a local scene.
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Wallace Reid
Catler
London
Death on the cliff in Zane Grey's Gold scene
The article notes a dramatic moment in the film Gold where the villain Rajag is doomed on a high cliff. Walter and a Yaqui Indian figure in the perilous fall as a net and cleared ground are arranged for safety.
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Zane Grey
Rajag
Walter
Hunter
Crafty McKim Attracts Movie Fans And Rivalry
The text describes Robert McKim as central to a film crowd, noting his reputation for crafty cunning and strength. At the studio, colleagues call him gentle like a dove, unless provoked by the interference of the heroics of the leading man.
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Man McKim
Robert McKim
Iig
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Leockney
George Williams
Fred Moore
Otto Hoffmann Sersens
Arthur Millett
Parr-eunt
Die Burke
James I. Crane
Frank Mille
Wuss Coestess Madeline Clare Speee
Fred Mearn
Frederick Eamelton
Dorothy Waters
THE
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Roy Stewart
Wilfred Lucas
Mildred Manning
Parame
Thomas Holding
Louise
Glaum
Keystone Comedy
Ford Weekly
Mutual
Kate Carewe
Ralph Bowen
Albert Roncoe
Duncan
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Joseph Dowling
Cheyenne Harry
Comchiba
Betty Schade
Boone Travis
Harria Lopez
Vester Pegg
Doug Fairbanks
Charlie Chaplin
Syd Chaplin Aircraft Corporation
Hodkinson
Margery Harding
Loulese Glaum Granger Hollister
John Gilbert George Osborne
Merschel Mayall
Grover King
Charles Gunn
Pathe
Wiliam Farnum
Farle Williams
Vitagraph
Mr. Williams
May Louise
Mark M. Dintenfass
Lubin Stock Company
Philadelphia
Louise Lovely
Bill Farnum
Oral Humphrey
Marguerite Clark
Clara Kimball Young
Hugh Rodman
Wyoming
Pacific Coast Fleet
Los Angeles
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Star
Jensen
ON Herberg
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Byron Gray
Laddie
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