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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1917
Page
4
The listing outlines showings across multiple venues including the Plaza Palace Crystal Family and Majestic. Performers Fannie Ward Geraldine Farrar Ethel Barrymore Norma Talmadge Dustin Faroum Virginia Pearson and others headline films and acts with specials such as Private Peterson’s army talk and a variety of entertainment including magic and vaudeville acts.
Waterloo audiences are promised a return engagement of the drama A Little Girl in a Big City by manager Busby. The play depicts a country girl lured to New York and the dangers she faces, highlighting the white slave question with strong dramatic emphasis.
The Black and White Revus a modern minstrel trio with four girls opens at the Majestic theatre tomorrow afternoon. Ta Chesta stars with Orville Statam Vardon and Perry in a musical revue. Claudia Tracy Billy Curtis and comedic dogs Buster and Billikin cap the program, followed by Hearst Pathe news.
Ethel Barrymore headlines The Lifted Veil adapted from Basil King at the Palace with Miss Barrymore as Clorinda Gildersleeve a woman who sins against society who finds redemption through charity and a noble clergyman guiding her to help others. Her work in a home for friendless girls and nursing service shapes a tale of moral healing. Show runs Sunday and Monday.
Fannie Ward stars in the Paramount photoplay On the Level opening tomorrow at the Plaza Theatre. The film presents a wide range of characters from cultured easterner to western miner and cow boy, with Ward and director George H. Melford guiding the varied scenes and settings. Also showing Geraldine Farrar in The Woman God Forgot at the Plaza this week, featuring the large private swimming pool and garden of Montezuma’s daughter.
Norma Talmadge stars as Mary Carstairs in a melodrama involving a difficult choice between staying home and visiting New York. The plot centers on Mary’s defiant refusal and the ensuing family tensions. The setting includes a villa, a separated mother, and Mr Carstairs pursuing a visit that stirs public concern.
The article notes Gonda Durand fell into a tank during roller skating practice for a comedy and seeks dressmaker fees from the producer. It mentions Jack Pickford boxing scenes with Louise Hoff in Jack and Jitl and Roscoe Arbuckle surfing a tidal wave doomsday joke. It compares Charles Ray's films The Son of His Father and His Mother's Boy, asserting Ray's consistent manliness.
A fragment describes a yacht voyage involving Larry Varney and McGinnis planning to kidnap Alry and deliver her to her father as part of an adventure. The scene shifts toward New York aboard the yacht with full steam ahead as the characters head to the river. The setting hints at a forthcoming, concluded tale.
Mrs. Vernon Castle arrived at the studio for a day’s work and gasped at something unexpected, prompting immediate attention from her entourage and staff. The moment sets the tone for a busy schedule ahead in entertainment circles.
In a studio anteroom a crowd gathers hoping for work in pictures. Five women of wildly different types model the new hair style called the Castle Doh, each appearing content with the result as Antonio Morena remarks on the curious look and fashion.
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