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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1918
Page
12
Ralph Morgan, a five year specialist, presents a percentage based score card for plays using romance, laughs, construction, casting, acting, and production. He argues love and laughter drive success, with 60 percent idea and 40 percent staging and actor craft, urging trial of the method on current productions.
The Plaza screens a rapid fire comedy Nearly Married featuring Maden Kannedy in a successor to Haby Mine. A young couple torn apart by a wedding performance, a gossiping professional correspondent, and a meddling innkeeper drive fast paced, entertaining mischief with car crashes and misadventures.
Gen Sarrail former Balkan operations commander testified today at the court martial of M Paix-Beatile suspected of sharing confidential state documents. The proceedings also included attorneys Woolley and Murtagh for Tony Geler appealing a statutory charge against a young woman. state service accepted by HE Wenner.
A vaudeville bill at the Majestic theatre opens tomorrow with the Ellis Nowlan Troupe as headliners. James Lichter brings piano comedy with songs and numbers. Dae and Neville, Roth and Roberts, Helen Savage and company, and Pathe News form the rest of the program as UK war pictures continue.
Scenes around Lake George frame the romance in Outwitted at the Palace Sunday and Monday with Nan Stevens and Billy Bond delivering love on screen. A famed painting appears in Larson's house as a backdrop while a dictaphone drives plot twists through clever signaling and telephone secrecy.
Alice Brady appears at the Crystal for a run of Her Silent Sacrifice showing Sunday through Tuesday. She displays wide range from a Balkan queen to a peasant witch girl and a fashion queen, transforming from a five-dollar frock to a nine-hundred dollar gown with ease. Pete and Shakespeare notes add a behind the scenes tease about Douglas Fairbanks pictures and Alan Dwan discussing Romeo.
The Lee children Jane and Kath erine, ages five and seven, are praised as sturdy and fit. Their mother Irene Lee, a former stage performer, trains them to perform physical culture stunts the moment they rise each morning to strengthen legs backs and arms for graceful movement.
Professor de Lapparent developed a simple modern method for quick French acquisition. The Soldiers-Sailors Diary and English-French Dictionary, a pocket size textile bound book, is distributed by newspapers to encourage French study and war record keeping. Civilians and military alike find the diary valuable.
A farce known as Fair and Warmer by Avery Hopwood, famed for long New York and Chicago runs, comes to Waterloo theatre Wednesday evening. Selwyn & company promote a top production with lavish gowns and polished staging as the tour continues.
H B Warner stars in The Danger Trail shown for today only at the Family theatre. Violet Heming and W Lawson Bull support. Adventure story set in the far north.
A sensational trial concluded in Judge H B Boles court last spring with a conviction. The ruling followed a high profile case that drew notable local and state attention.
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