Beeson Theater – March 1916

March 1: “The Oval Diamond” starring Barbara Gilroy and Harris Gordon

Dodge City Daily Globe, March 1, 1916

March 2: Short films “When the Light Came,” “Heaven Will Protect a Woiking Goil,” and “Cooking His Goose”

March 3: Short films “Double Crossed,” “Igorrotes, Crocodiles and a Hat Box,” and “The Candy Cook”

Dodge City Daily Globe, March 3, 1916

March 4: Short films “Life’s Harmony,” “Ruth’s Remarkable Reception,” and “Flooded With Trouble”

March 5: First free concert of the reorganized Dodge City Cowboy Band led by A. E. Moebius

Dodge City Kansas Journal, March 2, 1916

March 6: “Life’s Blind Alley” starring Harold Lockwood and May Allison

Dodge City Daily Globe, March 6, 1916

March 7: Vaudeville acts Lenox Brothers and Harry LaToy plus short films “The Happy Masquerader” and “Rusty Reggie’s Record”

Dodge City Daily Globe, March 4, 1916

March 8: Short films “The Dead Alive” also known as “His Wife’s Double” starring Marguerite Courtot and “Dad’s College Widow” starring Orral Humphrey.

Dodge City Daily Globe, March 8, 1916

March 9: Four short comedy films plus “See America First No. 24” and “Mutual Weekly No. 61”

March 10: “What Doris Did” starring Doris Grey and “Love, Dynamite and Baseballs” starring and directed by John Francis Dillon

Dodge City Daily Globe, March 10, 1916

March 11: Short films “Margy of the Foothills,” “Maud Muller Modernized,” and “A Musical Mix-Up”

March 13: “Powder” starring and directed by Arthur Maude and “Persistent Percival”

Dodge City Daily Globe, March 13, 1916

March 14: Short films “The Silken Spider,” “Oscar, the Oyster Opener,” and “The Bluffers”

March 15: “The Soul’s Cycle” starring Margaret Gibson and “A Deal in Indians”

Dodge City Daily Globe, March 15, 1916

March 16: Short films “The Cruise of Fate,” “A Gay Blade’s Last Scrape,” and “Cupid Beats Father”

March 17: “I Accuse” starring Alexander Gaden

Dodge City Daily Globe, March 17, 1916

March 18: “Three Weeks” based on the erotic romance novel by Elinor Glyn

Note: It is unclear which adaptation was shown. “Three Weeks” was released in 1914 and “Pimple’s Three Weeks (Without the Option)” was a burlesque film released in 1915. The short films listed in the March 17 ad do not appear to have been shown.

March 19: Dodge City Cowboy Band free concert

Dodge City Daily Globe, March 14, 1916

March 20: “The Flight of the Duchess,” starring Gladys Hulette and “A Shot Gun Romance” starring George Ovey and Belle Bennett

Dodge City Daily Globe, March 20, 1916

March 21: Short films “The Quagmire,” “Jerry’s Big Game,” and “A Janitor’s Joyful Job”

March 22: “The Heart of Tara” and “Charlie’s Twin Sister”

Dodge City Daily Globe, March 22, 1916

March 23: Short film “The Whispered Word” and three unnamed comedies

March 24: “True Nobility” starring Helene Rosson and E. Forest Taylor and “Bungling Bill’s Peeping Ways”

Dodge City Daily Globe, March 24, 1916

March 25: Short films “Broadcloth and Buckskin,” “Rupert’s Rube Relation,” “Mutual Weekly No. 63,” and “See America First No. 27”

March 26: Free Christian Science lecture by Francis J Fluno, CSD

March 27: “The Hidden Law” starring William Clifford

Dodge City Daily Globe, March 27, 1916

March 28: Vaudeville acts Mr. and Mrs. J. Reynolds Van Vleck and Davis and Williams plus short films “The Ranger of Lonesome Gulch” and “Bubbles and the Barber”

Dodge City Daily Globe, March 25, 1916

Dodge City Daily Globe, March 27, 1916

March 29: “The Idol of the Stage” starring Malcolm Williams

Dodge City Daily Globe, March 29, 1916

March 30: Short films “The Code of Honor,” “Pansy Post, Protean Player,” and “See America First No. 27”

Note: It is unclear whether “See America First No. 27” was shown a second time or if that was a typo. “See America First No. 28” was released on March 26, 1916.

March 31: “Fear” starring Howard M Mitchell and Peggy Burke and “A Trunk an’ Trouble” starring Carol Holloway

Dodge City Daily Globe, March 31, 1916

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