The Year - 1917
The Family News..:
Elizabeth Jane (Boyd) Stewart died on Aug. 17 in Chicago.
James E. was born to Ella (Stewart) and William T. Canty on Dec. 21 in Chicago.
The #1 Songs Were .....
AT THE (Silent) MOVIES....
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp - (Fantasy).
Director - Chester M. & Sidney Franklin.
Writer - Bernard McConville.
Cast - Elmo Lincoln as the Magic Genie.
Others - Buddy Messinger, Gertrude Messinger, Virginia Lee Corbin, Francis Carpenter, Violet Radcliffe.
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Betsy Ross - (Drama, Romance).
Director - George Cowl & Travers Vale.
Writer - Henry A. DuSouchet.
Cast - Alice Brady as Betsy Griscom, John Bowers as Joseph Ashburn, Lillian Cook as Carissa Griscom, Victor Kennard as John Ross, Eugenie Woodward as Mrs. Ashburn, Kate Lester as Mrs. Vernon, Frank Mayo as Clarence Vernon, George MacQuarrie as George Washington, Justine Cutting as Mrs. Griscom, Robert Forsyth as Samuel Griscom, Robert Cummings as Joel Radley, Nellie Fillmore as Mrs. Bass, ichard Clarke as Lemuel Ketch.
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The Fugitive - (Drama).
Writer - E. Magnus Ingleton.
Cast - Harry Carter, T.D. Crittenden, Louise Lovely, Vester Pegg, Roy Stewart.
In The News..:
First U.S. combat troops in France as U.S. declares war on Germany (April 6).
Third Battle of Ypres. Russian Revolution of 1917�climax of long unrest under czars. February Revolution�Nicholas II forced to abdicate, liberal government created. Kerensky becomes prime minister and forms provisional government (July). In October Revolution, Bolsheviks seize power in armed coup d'�tat led by Lenin and Trotsky. Kerensky flees.
Balfour Declaration promises Jewish homeland in Palestine.
U.S. declares war on Austria-Hungary (Dec. 7).
Armistice between new Russian Bolshevik government and Germans (Dec. 15).
Sigmund Freud's Introduction to Psychoanalysis.
Last updated on Tuesday, April 18, 2000