Beeson Theater – August 1916

August 1: Vaudeville act At Ocean Beach featuring Billy Batchelor, Hazel Vert, Don Adams, and twelve other performers

Dodge City Daily Globe, July 31, 1916

August 2: “The Flames of Johannis” starring Nance O’Neil

Dodge City Daily Globe, August 2, 1916

August 3: “Lovely Mary” starring Mary Miles Minter

August 4: Vaudeville act Wylie and Blackburn plus “Martha’s Vindication” and “Gypsy Joe”

Dodge City Daily Globe, August 4, 1916

August 5: Unspecified Mutual program

Dodge City Daily Globe, August 5, 1916

August 7: “Slander” starring Bertha Kalich

August 8: “The Raiders” starring H. B. Warner

Dodge City Daily Globe, August 9, 1916

August 9: “Into the Primitive” starring Kathlyn Williams and Guy Oliver

Dodge City Daily Globe, August 9, 1916

August 10: “Her Great Price” starring Mabel Taliaferro

August 11: Vaudeville acts The Three Juggling Bannans and Howatson and Swaybell plus the “regular Triangle program.” I believe this was “Hoodoo Ann” starring Mae Marsh and Robert Harron per the Globe notice above that was published on August 9. “By Stork Delivery” starring Mack Swain and Polly Moran was intended to be shown at the same time but it is unclear whether that happened.

*Note: “Hoodoo Ann” can be viewed online here.

Dodge City Daily Globe, August 11, 1916

Dodge City Daily Globe, August 11, 1916

August 12: Unspecified Mutual program

August 14: “A Modern Thelma” starring Vivian Martin and Harry Hilliard

Dodge City Daily Globe, August 14, 1916

August 15: “The Stepping Stone” starring Frank Keenan and “Bucking Society” starring Chester Conklin

August 16: “The Destroyers” starring Lucille Lee Stewart

Dodge City Daily Globe, August 16, 1916

August 17: “The Wall Between” starring Francis X Bushman and Beverly Bayne

August 18: Pantages Vaudeville acts Agnes Burr and The Three Melvin Brothers plus films “The Habit of Happiness” and “A Bath House Blunder”

Dodge City Daily Globe, August 18, 1916

Dodge City Daily Globe, August 18, 1916

August 19: Short films “Tangled Skeins,” “The Ostrich Tip,” and “When Adam Had ‘Em”

Dodge City Daily Globe, August 19, 1916

August 20: Free Dodge City Cowboy Band concert

Dodge City Daily Globe, August 18, 1916

August 21: “A Man of Sorrow” starring William Farnum and Dorothy Bernard and Mutual Weekly No. 81 showing the Dodge City 300 and the Dodge City Cowboy Band!

*Note: I have reached out to Gaumont to see if this newsreel is available in their archives. I haven’t been able to locate it in other archives so far but will continue searching.

Dodge City Daily Globe, August 21, 1916

August 22: “Sold for Marriage” starring Lillian Gish and “The Other Man” starring Fatty Arbuckle

August 23: “The Shop Girl” starring Edith Storey and Antonio Moreno and “Kernel Nutt’s Musical Shirt” starring Frank Daniels and Alice Washburn

Dodge City Daily Globe, August 23, 1916

August 24: “The Kiss of Hate” starring Ethel Barrymore

August 25: “The Waifs” starring Jane Grey and William Desmond and “His Wife’s Mistake” starring Fatty Arbuckle

Dodge City Daily Globe, August 25, 1916

August 26: Short films “The Power of Mind,” “Too Bad Eddie,” “Jerry’s Celebration,” and an installment of “See America First”

August 28: “Blazing Love” starring Virginia Pearson

August 29: “Sunshine Dad” starring DeWolf Hopper and Topeka native Fay Tincher and “The Snow Cure” starring Ford Sterling

Dodge City Daily Globe, August 28, 1916

August 30: “The Valiants of Virginia” starring Kathlyn Williams and “Kernel Nutt Flirts with Wife” starring Frank Daniels

Dodge City Daily Globe, August 30, 1916

August 31: “The Half Million Bribe” starring Marguerite Snow and Hamilton Revelle

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