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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1917
Page
6
Edward Peples stars in a New York London love story with Marshall Neilan Bessie Dyton Mary Charleson and George Wawcett in a soul stirring drama of passionate love. A brief 10 cent comedy completes the program with the featured film.
Silent film star Lillian Gish, famed for Birth of a Nation and Daphne and the Pirate, will headline the Triangle release An Innocent Magdalene at Empire tomorrow. The program also features Fatty Arbuckle in The Actors Ball, with 10 cent admission.
Manager Henry presents Gus Hill's Happy Hooligan Honeymoon at the Empire on Saturday March 24 with matinee and night shows. The musical cartoon features eight vaudeville acts and a lively chorus, centered on Happy Hooligan in constant comic trouble.
A lighthearted note centers on Happy Hooligan and his bride in a cheerful honeymoon sequence. The strip grows from danger to merriment as characters revel in a carefree, comic style typical of early newspaper humor.
The act features familiar musical comedy players with Happy Hooligan as the centerpiece. The curtain falls to roaring laughter as Happy and a chorus of young women perform tuneful numbers. Matinee at 2 30 with 25c to 50c and children 25c. Evening seats 25c to 75c and $1 down.
Miss Emma Howard Wight spends several days in Winchester gathering local color for photoplays and is registered at Hotel Jack. She helped prepare a scenario for Bobbs Merrill from Harris Dickson's She That Hesitates to be produced by Selig Polyscope, and is writing a comedy for Universal titled He That Laughs Last.
After Chaeronea Philip of Macedonia defeated the Greeks and wrote a boastful letter to King Archidamus of Sparta. Archidamus sent a caustic reply: measure thy shadow and see thy victory has not grown thy height.
A Winchester resident testifies to kidney relief from Doan’s Kidney Pills noting improved backache and urinary symptoms after use. Mrs. W. E. Harlee of 720 Braddock St. endorses the remedy, priced at 50 cents, with Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo as producers.
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