Majestic Show House Offers Novel Musical Week
The Majestic presents a varied week with George Damerel star of Merry Widow and a 10 member company in The Littles Liars and Ghost of a Coon. Anderson Coipes with Back to El-Mira, Barber and Jackson Just Mirth and Melody, and Violet and Charles acrobats. Family shows feature Hollbrook Blinn Doris Kenyon Empress, Krazy Kats cartoon, and more. Palace hosts For France with Edward Barr Betty Howse, Maxine Elliott Fighting Odds, and George Walsh This Is the Life. The wrote note recalls early touring company days and sharing tips with chorus girls after pay nights.
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George Damerel
Star
Anderson & Coipes
el- Mira
Barber
Hollbrook Blinn
Doris Kenyon
the Palace
Edward Barr
Betty Howse
France
Keystone
Maxine Elliott
George Walsh
Henpecked Heavy headline at Waterloo Theatre
Waterloo Theatre presents Henpecked Heavy a musical comedy tomorrow night featuring Haston Powell in a comic role and an original cast with a beauty chorus. The show promises lively humor around a henpecked husband and stage antics that appeal to both men and women in the audience.
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Hastwood Harrison
Waterloo
Staga
Haston Powell
Hindu magician heads new Belgian at the Majestic
Hindu necromancer Karnii headlines the Majestic Theatre with “weird demonstrations” and feats of illusion after spending 20 years as an occult priest in India. He tours with six performers led by Dorothy Van and Frank Sills, while a vaudeville singling satire and musical numbers accompany the act. The program also features Hirschel Hendler the poet of the piano and comic performances by the Brads.
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Karnii
Majestic Theatre
India
Dorothy van
Frank Sills
Schoen
Walton
Hirschel Hendler
Brads
Fred
Mar
Pathe News
America
Frage
Palace Shows Picture Taken in Paris The Light War
A vivid depiction of Paris during the night war declares the surge of crowds and lights in Greater Vitagraph's Blue Ribbon feature Tor France. The romance and war story follows a young American officer in the French aviation corps who saves a French artist’s daughter and flees enemy lines with her. Edward Earle Betty Howe lead, with Frank Andrews and Arthur Donaldson in support.
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Paris
Tor
Edward Earle
Betty Howe
Frank Andrews
Arthur Donaldson
The Honor System At Crystal Theatre This Week
The Honor System will be shown at the Crystal theatre Sunday Monday and Tuesday. The crowd pleasing photoplay is praised as a powerful moral story and a strong realism piece with scenes of bandits raiding and mustang riders.
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Crystal Theatre
Otien
Hero Joe Stanton Saves Desert Town in Larfat Raid
Wash's scene evokes Villa era action as Joe Stanton leads a bold rescue across the desert with the American flag at the forefront. Passion drives a whirlwind ride to defend the town from raiders.
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Wash
Villa
Columbus
Larfat
Joe Stanton
Liberty Bonds For Patriot Actors Rally For War Funds
A theater world drive has raised over 1.6 million dollars in liberty bonds as actors and managers join a campaign inspired by John L Golden and Secretary McAdoo to keep the stage well represented in bond purchases. Prominent producers and stars pledge support, with pay advances arranged if performers cannot pay upfront.
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John L. Golden
Mr. Golden
Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo
Irvin Cobb
William Collier
Henry Carlian
William Farnum
Sam H. Harris
Raymond Hitchcock
George W. Hobart
de Wolf Hopper
Fred Niblo
Augustus Thomas
David Warfield
Winchell Smith
Thomas A. Wise
Messrs. Smith and
Golden
Reminiscences by Marie Dressler at Camp Mills
Dressler recounts stage entry via comic opera and a speech to soldiers at Camp Mills. She jokes about audience interference, guards, and a cavalier remark on grateful people. She recalls London humor, Newport summers, and a note on Sir Daniel Gooch during Christmas holidays.
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Alabama
Rainbow Division
Camp Mills
L. I
London
Newport
Daniel Gooch
Theatre News and Stars Stir the Stage Crowd
Polly Moran trains osteopathy to ready for new film Roping Her Romance. Julian Eltinge delivers Kipling inspired humor in The Clever Mrs Carfax. Julia Sanderson shines in Rambler Rosa at Empire New York. Maude Adams rehearses A Kiss for Cinderella after a summer away. Plattsburg soldiers enjoy a diversion during training camp in New York. An orchestra of disabled veterans leads a morale event aboard a camp schedule tribute.
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Polly Moran
Romeo
Jacobs-Smith
Empire Theatre
New York
Julia Sanderson
Joe” Cawthorn
Kellerman Dives From Wire Into 86 Foot Ocean Dive
Annette Kellerman walked a long tight wire at Bar Harbor Maine and plunged 86 feet into the icy ocean beneath as five cameras watched. A gale blew and the sea roiled against the rocks while she strived to complete the distance half the 126 foot wire length. She then dived into the briny midway. Kellerman walked on a steel cable three eighths of an inch thick.
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Annette Kellerman
Bar Harbor
Misa Kellerman
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