April 1: Short films “The Fifth Ace,” “Cupid at Cohen’s,” “Search Me,” and “On the Rampage”
April 3: “Revelation” starring Constance Crawley and “Bumble’s Job” starring Orral Humphrey
April 4: Because the State Board of Censors took issue with “In the Shuffle” and two unnamed Falstaff comedies, “The Gamble,” “Ham and Eggs,” and “Johnny’s Birthday” were shown instead.
April 5: “The Other Side of the Door” starring Harold Lockwood and May Allison and “Making a Man of Johnny”
April 6: Short films “Oh! Oh! Oh! Henery!,” “See America First No. 29,” and “The Bankhurst Mystery”
April 7: Short films “In the Sunset Country,” “A Lion-Hearted Chief,” “The Snow Shoveler’s Sweetheart,” “Mutual Weekly No. 65,” and “See America First No. 28”
April 8: Short films “The Bulkleys,” “Bonds of Deception,” “Art and Arthur,” and “Tips”
April 9: Dodge City Cowboy Band concert with First Trombone, Otero Beeson and new bandleader, Arnold Beaumont
April 10: “Lady Audley’s Secret” starring Theda Bara based on the novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon and “Mutual Weekly No. 66”
April 11: Short films “Two Bits,” “The Professor’s Peculiar Precautions,” “Her Confession,” and “The Winning Punch”
April 12: “Fighting for France”
April 13: “The Woman in Politics” starring Mignon Anderson
April 14: “Bullets and Brown Eyes” starring Bessie Barriscale and William Desmond and “The Village Blacksmith” starring Hank Mann and Polly Moran
April 15: Short films “The Pendulum of Chance,” “Peanuts and Powder,” “Sapville’s Stalwart Son,” and “Curing Cissy”
April 17: “A Soldier’s Oath” starring William Farnum and Dorothy Bernard and “Rube’s Hotel Tangle”
April 18: Short films “The Wayfarers,” “A Mix-Up in Photos,” and “Billy Van Deusen’s Muddle”
April 19: “The Leopard’s Bride” starring Margaret Gibson, who later changed her name to Patricia Palmer, and “The Overworked, Oversea Overseer”
April 20: “The Net” starring Bert Delaney and Marion Swayne – this film was recently discovered in the National Library of Norway and is available to stream online. The trailer can be viewed free of charge.
April 21: “The Iron Strain” starring Dustin Farnum and Enid Markey and “My Valet” starring Raymond Hitchcock and comedy legend, Mabel Normand
April 22: Short films “The Awakening,” “Almost Right,” “See America First,” and “Improbable Yarn of McQuirk”
April 24: “Destruction” starring Theda Bara
April 25: Short films “The Greater Wrong,” “Fashion and Fury,” and “Susie, the Sleuth”
April 26: “Damaged Goods” starring Richard Bennett and his wife (at the time), Adrienne Morrison
Merritt Beeson invited local church leaders and physicians to pre-screen the film, which was seen as a cautionary tale. No children under 14 years of age were admitted unless accompanied by their parents.
April 27: Short films “A Caliph of the New Baghdad,” “The Race for a Siding,” and “Frocks and Frills”
April 28: “The Coward” starring Frank Keenan and “Fickle Fatty’s Fall” starring native Kansan, Fatty Arbuckle
April 29: Short films “The Broken Promise,” “Selig-Tribune No. 31,” and “His Lucky Day”
April 30: Dodge City Cowboy Band concert
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