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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1916
Page
6
The article touts a new railroad themed serial featuring Helen Holmes as the star, with extra Monday showings to boost reception. It promises a two reels weekly, a dramatic “Who’s Guilty” installment, and Chaplin with a Keystones review, plus vaudeville specials and a matinee at 3:45 featuring The Girl and the Game.
The four Who's Guilty stories titled The Silent Shame attack the divorce evil, drawing ministers, lawyers, jurists, and laymen to debate. It contrasts South Carolina's ban on divorce with Nevada's permissiveness, framing a moral dispute across a broad gulf. Empire Monday features this story along with other vaudeville acts and a spotlight singer.
Charley Chaplin brings a four to five reel program of Keystone comedies to the market with "Charley's First Vacation" "Who's Guilty?" and "Girl and the Game" plus two vodvil acts. The package promises continuous laughter and is offered for 10 cents.
Empire to present a new high class ballad singer starting Monday with Don Garrison debuting. He will perform a different song each night and is described as a composer rather than a singer. He will debut with Washington Was a Grand Ola Man remembered weeks ago at Empire. Admission ten cents.
Winchester and Frederick county women who decorate Confederate soldiers at Stone Wall Cemetery are asked to lead this year’s decoration on the sixteenth of June. The Ladies Memorial Association requests volunteers to oversee the effort in the same plots.
A vintage advertisement touts Dodson's Liver Tone as a harmless vegetable substitute for dangerous calomel. It claims the product cleanses sluggish livers without sickness, salivation, or side effects, and even suggests giving it to children.
Grimes and nearby towns log visits from Finfrock Clark Burner Hubbard and Brown families. A Galilee Church protracted meeting drew ten converts amid busy farming season. Minor local movements include Dehaven well drilling and visits among residents at Apple Ridge Orchard Glen and Eastern View.
The day program features Stonewall Jackson's Way a Civil War drama, Chaplin in Woman and Fifty Years After Appomattox plus two vaudeville acts. Evening program stars William S. Hart in a Western Fatty and Mabel in two reels Fatty's Tintype Tangie with vaudeville. Prices 10c to 15c. Optimal attendance urged.
An engaging Friday program offers a comedy and athletic display followed by a five part Blue Bird feature starring Helen Ware in Secret Love. It also presents the famed Carmen film with Geraldine Farrar and an autographed car giveaway at matinee and evening shows.
Emma H Wight of Baltimore sang danced and recited at a Philadelphia Walton Hotel event under Colonial San a ler auspices. The Society colors decorated the hall to honor her graceful dancing and the artistic recitation of Ella Wheeler Wilcox's poem Twas a Hundred Years Ago. She is niece of Miss Emma Howard Wight and has visited Middletown and Winchester.
The Empire Theater provides the expensive Unison as a special treat for visitors. It will appear on the streets a few minutes after the Memorial parade and possibly before as well as in front of the theater at intervals throughout the day.
The Boy Scouts of Winchester will collect on June sixth Confederate Memorial Day. Boxes and badges are provided by the Stonewall Memorial Association. Funds go to the Confederate Monument Fund. Miss Lucy W. Russell, president.
Judge Dr J E Harris of Berryville Virginia spent yesterday afternoon in town on professional business. An enthusiastic museum attendant described a prehistoric bird bill covered in tiny holes as an ideal piece to introduce in congress.
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