Sunday Movie Programs Highlight Long Series and Stars
Liberty features Lillian Gish in Diane of the Follies last show with The French Milliner comedy. Strand showcases Valeska Suratt in The Straight Way about vengeance and peace. Coliseum runs Gloria's Romance final installments starring Billie Burke, and Sunday Lou Tellegen in The Victory of Conscience. Colonial presents The Danger Signal with Danny Canavan rising from laborer to politician. Rex screens The Grasp of Greed with Louise Lovely. Purity opening at Clemmer with Audrey Munson. Various venues show The Eternal Question with Mme Petrova and According to the Code with Lewis Stone. A news pictorial caps the program.
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Douglas Fairbanks
Sthand
Valeske Suratt
Coliseum
Jean Tellegen
Ors
Lemmer
Andrey Munson
Mme
Olga Vetreve
Lewie
Steve To
Diane
Follies
Triangle
Lillian Gish
Diase
Fay Tincher
Gloria
Billie Burke
Lou Tellegen
Sarah Bernhardt
Confcience
Danny Canavan
New York
Lewis
Stone
Mr. Stone
Olga Petrova
Manhattan
Colonial
Audrey Munson
Clemmer
Rex
Wounded Soldier Saves Girl From River at Teahouse
Private R J Kirke of the Canadian First battalion who had his right leg amputated and spent 15 months in a hospital saved a girl who fell from a punt into the Thames at Eel Pie Island. He jumped from the teahouse balcony and brought her to land as she lay unconscious. Kirke remained at the teahouse overnight before being moved to Bushey Park Hospital.
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London
Eng
R. J. Kirke
Canadian First Battalion
Huskey Park
Eel Pie Island
Thames
Kirke
Bushey Park
Truck Driver Collides Through Store Window at Westlake
Auto truck driver James Macer of W. L. John & Co. remained at the wheel and crashed a load through glass at Economy Store 1800 Westlake Ave. He escaped with a slight head injury as his vehicle struck a lighter truck. Driver William Paynter of 1022 Sixth Ave. suffered a head bruise and was taken to Providence Hospital.
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James Macer
W. L. John & Co
Westlake Ave
William Paynter
Sixth Ave
Providence Hospital
Longshoreman Charged in City Hold-Up Case
W Simmons 34 a longshoreman was arrested by police after being identified by Thomas Sakeroff and brothers as the man who attempted a hold up near Sixth Ave and King St. Sakeroff 20 and his brother Alexander said they arrived from a logging camp in the city on Wednesday.
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W. Simmons
Thomas Sakeroff
Sixth Ave
King St
Simmons
Sakeroff
Alexander
The Shielding Shadow Opens With Gripping Mystery
Movie fans await the new serial by The Iron Claw author as The Shielding Shadow debuts with Grace Darmond, Leon Bary, and Ralph Kellard. The mystic stranger and two burning eyes haunt Leontine’s perilous life after marrying a wealthy Spaniard in a Seattle Colonial screening.
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Leontine
Astra
Grace Darmond
Leon Bary
Sarah Bernhardt
Ralph Kellard
Seattle
Allies Interparliamentary Conference Moves to London
The interparliamentary conference of the allies scheduled for Rome in October is postponed and will meet in London next spring. A common needle passes through 60 operations in its manufacture.
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Allies
London
Ites
Waitresses Union in Seattle Values Hard Work and Courtesy
Alice Lord, secretary of the Seattle Waitresses' union, describes about 400 members as independent and hardworking. She notes few grievances, acknowledges occasional petty troubles, and highlights the union's hospital and other comforts while praising the public for preferring young, new waitresses in service.
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Alice M. Lord
Seattle
Seattle Union
Alice Lord
Mrs. Geo W Aiken Feted by Large Washington Event
Several hundred gathered Friday at the Washington Annex to honor Mrs. Geo W Aiken president of the King County Women’s Republican club newly named to the national committee. U S Senator Poindexter and Gov Henry McBride were to speak briefly while Mrs Eugene A Childe and Mme Louise Clary sang. Aiken heads on a national campaign tour starting October 2.
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Geo. W. Aiken
King County Women's Republican Club
National Republican
U. 8
Poindexter
Henry McBride
Eugene A. Childe
Mme
Louise Clary
Aiken
National Committee
Evening Russian Classes Begin at University of Washington
Evening Russian classes start Thursday at the University of Washington, open to all residents of Seattle. Registration through the recorder’s office of Dean Haggett, College of Liberal Arts, with Mise Helvine Simeon as instructor.
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University of Washington
Recorder of Dean
Hagcett
College of Liberal Arts
Seattle
Mise Helvine Simeon
Allied Bazaar Features Rustic Country Store
An old country store will revive memories of back home and occupy one of five booths at the Allied Bazaar in the Arena October 17 19. The British American quartet will sing songs of the old days during the evenings.
Film Flams and Tales From the Lasky Studio Set
A crowded Hollywood panorama details actors and antics from Paramount and Morosco pictures. Notes include Fannie Ward's prized California cat, George Alan Larkin’s circus rise, Mary Miles Minter’s eye incident, James Kirkwood’s tire episode, and familial showbiz pride. Louise Huff trains for Jane in Seventeen with Jack Pickford. Doro's opera cloak draws San Angeles notice.
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Fannie Ward
California
Paramount Pictures
Lasky Studio
Jack Dean
Miss Ward
City budget slashed by half million in 1917 plan
Tentative expenditures totaling 542 230.27 were cut from the 1917 city budget. Mayor Gill and the council met Friday to approve reductions that will cut the tax levy by nearly 2 mills. The plan trims the Westernway bridge item, bond issuance, fireboat project, harbor department launch, 10 detective positions, and several patrol vacancies, with a public hearing set for Monday at 2 pm.
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Eclty
Gill
Westerway
Corncr
The Beach Comber on the Life Saver Parody
A comedian writes a comic plot about a lifeguard who saves no lives yet earns much credit in The Beach Comber. The text notes Billie Burke favoring pink in her belongings and praises her in a bathing suit sequence while referencing a 1917 Washington Grand Commandery Knights Templars session in Yakima with Bell chosen as meeting place.
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Washington
Grandmandery
Knight Templars
Ni Yakima
Bell
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