The Big Craze Heads to Waterloo Theatre
Burlesque stars are impersonated by local actors for The Big Craze at Waterloo Theatre Sunday and Monday. Sari opens Friday with Hazazaa dance in Hagazaaing and Mizz Lajos stars. vaudeville acts at Majestic include Tom Linton Jungle Girls and Que Quong Tai. Mary Pickford in Rags plays at Plaza after Trilby run ends. Family screens Mr Hingle's Melodrama and The Second in Command.
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Broadway
Waterloo Theatre
Hazel Ford
May Belt
Harry Fields
Ben Hilbert
Frank Carey
Lewis Naden
Tom Barrette
Sano
Waterlco
New York
Comedienne
Majestic Theatre
Tom Linton
Jungle Girls
Dainty Que Quong Tai
Cycling McNutts
Bert Melburn
Mastrel
McCowan
Gordon
John P. Wade
Scott
Wilson
Sabbath
Wright
Plaza
Clara Kimball Young
Trilby
Wilton Lackaye
Svengati
Altho Paul McAllister
Chester Barnett
Mary Pickford
Scene in the operetta Sari at quarters and film work
Scene in the operetta Sari at quarters and these were taken in the Columbia Bank Building, 507 Fifth Avenue, on Monday. Production was under way at the Yonkers studio and the printing of the first film on the newly arranged schedule began at another laboratory.
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Columbia Bank
Fifth Avenue
Yonkers
Movie Lineup at PuaAZzZa and Palace Theaters This Week
The PuaAZzZa presents Mary Pickford in Rags Sunday to Tuesday and Hist o Jants in Nearly a Lady Wednesday and Thursday. The Master of the House Friday and Saturday. The Palace features The Darkening Trail with William S. Hart Sunday, The Regeneration with Rockcliffe Fellows and Anna Q. Nelson Monday and Tuesday, and The Man From Oregon Friday and Saturday. The Family shows Francis X. Bushman in The Second in Command Sunday and Monday plus The Diamond From the Sky episode Tuesday and a Chaplin comedy. Wednesday brings Les Miserables in French. Thursday and Friday showcase Edward Donnelly in Maria Covington. Saturday features The Man Behind the Door with Wally Yan and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Pickford
Histo Jants
the Palace
Willian S. Hart
Rockcliffe
Anna Q. Nelson
Howard Hickman
Clara Williams
Oregon
the Family
Francis X. Bushman
Charlie Chaplin
Edward Donbelly
Maria Covington
Wally Yan
Wm. Shea
Cissy Wlizgerall
Man Behind the Door
Famous Players Co. suffers vast fire loss at New York studio
A blaze at the Famous Players Film Company studio on West Twenty sixth Street destroyed equipment and furniture across the third and fourth floors. The laboratory escaped, while three employees sloshed through smoke to reach the roof. Firemen fought to contain spread as the great damage unfolded and retakes were planned for unreleased subjects.
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Famous Players Film Company
West Twenty-sixth Street
New York
Picture Company
Famous « Players
Frank Meyer
Zukor
Zenda
Adolph Znker
Silent screen stars join Selig and Mutual teams in Chicago and on coast
Jack Pickford, 19, signs with Selig Polyscope and heads for the Pacific coast to engage with Selig Pacific Coast companies after a Chicago stop. The piece notes Pickford’s seven years as a motion picture actor and lists credits with Biograph Pathe Helian ce Famous Players. It also mentions Colin Reed’s dentistry duties for extras teeth whitening and notes Harold Lockwood’s night drive records. Wallace MacDonald’s operatic tenor and Crane Wilbur joining Mutuals after early stage work.
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Jack Pickford
Selig Polyscopea Company
Chicago
Pa‘cific
Selig Pacific Coast
Althe
Biograph
Pathe
Heliance
Jose
Colin Reed
Selly Chicago
Reed
Crane Wilbur
Forces of the Mutuals
Ilonny Irving
Miss Fiske
Prisoners Not Escapees at Fort Madison Say Board
Des Moines Sept 25 W J Dix on chairman of the state board of control stated no prisoners escaped from Fort Madison penitentiary yesterday and it is believed the epidemic of escapes has been checked. Six convicts remain at large and the board says this does not affect confidence in the honor system of handling convicts.
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Des Moines
W. J. Dixon
State Board of Control
Fort Madison
Althe
Sanders
Board of Control
German Side of the War screens in Chicago and Waterloo
The article notes photographer Edwin F. Weigle warding through multiple war theatres for German backed films titled The German Side of the War. At Chicago Studebaker Theatre the films drew record crowds surpassing The Birth of a Nation before heading to New York’s Majestic. In Waterloo the ad notes edition circulation and home delivery of the Waterloo Evening Courier and Reporter with many homes reached.
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Edwin F. Weigle
Chicaga Tribune
Weigle
Dixmude
Studebaker Theatre
Chicago
Lo Ower
New York City
Majestic Theatre
Majestic
Waterloo
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Waterloo Theatres
Mr. Hingle
James Lackaye
Hughie Mack
William Shea
Liant
Anstruther
John Drew
Marguerite Snow
Metro
Evening Courier
Sari
E Waterloo
Brbath & Wright
the Majestic
Famous Players Co
Harold Lockwood
Los Angeles
Santa Barbara
Sonoja
Wallace MacDonald
Beauty” Company
Wallace
A. J. Busby
Mer
Senday
Cene Matinen
Proday, Covist
Henry W. Savage
Uados
Stan
Pe Amil Theatre
Ravitertyge Gauihs
Upder New Mutesapgenenye
Tomay
Mr. Bingle
Cmlaplin
Francis X
Bali
Ohio
Dayton Mvg. CO
Dayton
William S. Hart
Thomas H. Ince
Col
Heeza Liar
Aimniss Fon —Fe
Monner
Wranklin
Rey
Frraington
Cale
Ee Lininger & Barclay
Itony
Pood
Coat Corner
Sixth Fefferson Streets
Ned
Stratte
Werey
Iowa State Bank
Fonrih
Detleeseon Streets
Llenry W. Savage
Mizzi Hajos
Chas Migakings
Murray
Howard Marsh
Evelyn Parnell
Pranic Warrington
Jotn Squires
Albert Ledges
Libby Bush
Tay Toere
John P. Wade & CO
Marie Shelby
Rube Funmakers
Louis London
Sabath
Crowell’s
Waterloo Ice Cream Company
East Sixth Street
Ross Taxi
Ebison
Riarmond Disc
REAL
Phonograph Shop
Bridge Street
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