The Year - 1916
The Family News..:
William T. Canty married Ella Stewart in Chicago, on ?.
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AT THE (Silent) MOVIES....
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - (SciFi Adventure).
Director - Stuart Paton.
Writer - Jules Verne.
Cast - Allen Holubar as Captain Nemo, Lois Alexander as Prince Daaker's Daughter, Curtis Benton as Ned Land, Wallace Clarke as Pencroft, Howard Crampton as Cyrus Harding, Jane Gail as A Child of Nature (Princess Daaker), Joseph W. Girard as Major Cameron, Dan Hanlon as Professor Aronnax, Leviticus Jones as Neb, Matt Moore as Lieutenant Bond, Martin Murphy as Herbert Brown, Edna Pendleton as Aronnax's Daughter, William Welsh as Charles Denver.
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Acquitted - (Drama).
Director - Paul Powell.
Writer - Mary Roberts Rinehart & Roy Somerville.
Cast - Wilfred Lucas as John Carter, Mary Alden as Mrs. Carter, Bessie Love as Helen Carter, 'Baby' Carmen De Rue as Nellie Carter, Elmer Clifton as Ned Fowler, Sam DeGrasse as Ira Wolcott, W.J. Freemont as Night Watchman, Spottiswoode Aitken as Charles Ryder,
James O'Shea as Police Chief, F.A. Turner as Police Captain.
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Behind Closed Doors - (Drama).
Director - Joseph A. Golden.
Writer - Eve Unsell.
Cast - Marie Empress as Inez Valenti, Marian Swayne as Elsa Montford, Wright Huntington as Grant Thorne, Regan Hughston as Barry King, Paul Irving as Hugh Montford, Thomas F. Tracey as Judge Montford.
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End of the Trail - (Drama).
Director - Oscar Apfel.
Writer - Oscar Apfel.
Cast - William Farnum as Jules LeClerq, Gladys Brockwell as Adrienne Carot, Willard Louis as Pierre (Devil) Cabot, Elinor Fair as La Petite Adrienne, Henry A. Barrows as Harvey Gordon, William Burress as Father LeJeune, Harry DeVere as John Robinson, Hermina Louis as Mrs. Robinson, Henry Hebert as Waupau, Ogden Crane as Jacques Favre,
Slim Whitaker as Inspector Barlow.
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Macbeth - (Drama).
Director - John Emerson.
Writer - John Emerson.
Cast - Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Macbeth, Constance Collier as Lady Macbeth, Wilfred Lucas as Macduff, Spottiswoode Aitken as Duncan, Ralph Lewis as Banquo, Mary Alden as Lady Macduff, Olga Grey as Lady Agnes, Lawrence Noskowski as Malcolm, Bessie Buskirk as Donalbain, Jack Conway as Lennox, Seymour Hastings as Ross, Karl Formes as Bishop,
Jack Brammall as Seyton, L. Tylden as First Witch, Scott McKee as Second Witch.
In The News..:
Congress expands armed forces.
Battle of Verdun. Battle of the Somme.
Tom Mooney arrested for San Francisco bombing (pardoned in 1939).
Pershing fails in raid into Mexico in quest of rebel Pancho Villa.
U.S. buys Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25 million.
President Wilson re-elected with the "kept us out of war� slogan.
�Black Tom� explosion at munitions dock in Jersey City, N.J., $40,000,000 damages; traced to German saboteurs.
Margaret Sanger opens first birth control clinic.
Easter Rebellion in Ireland put down by British troops.
Jeannette Rankin becomes first woman elected to Congress.
Last updated on Saturday, May 06, 2000