Beeson Theater – May 1916

May 1: “Green-eyed Monster” starring Robert B Mantell and his fifth wife, Genevieve Hamper

Dodge City Daily Globe, May 1, 1916

Dodge City Daily Globe, April 27, 1916

Dodge City Daily Globe, May 1, 1916

May 2: “Blade o’ Grass” starring Leonie Flugrath (later Shirley Mason) and “A Double-Barreled Courtship” starring Rose Melville

Dodge City Daily Globe, May 2, 1916

May 3: “My Lady’s Slipper” starring Anita Stewart and Earle Williams

May 4: Short films “The Heart’s Tribute,” “The Governor’s Special,” and “Ham’s Waterloo”

Dodge City Daily Globe, May 4, 1916

May 5: Short films “Matrimony” starring Julia Dean and “His Father’s Footsteps” starring Ford Sterling

May 6: Short films “The Woman Who Did Not Care,” “Germs and Microbes,” and “Selig-Tribune No. 33”

Dodge City Daily Globe, May 6, 1916

May 8: “A Parisian Romance” starring H. Cooper Cliffe and Dorothy Green and “Terry’s Tea Party”

Dodge City Daily Globe, May 6, 1916

May 9: Short films “Playthings of the Gods,” a Sis Hopkins comedy (possibly “A Leap Year’s Wooing,”) and an unnamed Vim Comedy Company film

Dodge City Daily Globe, May 9, 1916

May 10: “The Great Divide” starring Ethel Clayton and House Peters

Dodge City Daily Globe, May 9, 1916

May 11: Short films, “The Man Hunt,” “The Buckshot Feud,” and “The Trail of Danger”

Dodge City Daily Globe, May 11, 1916

May 12: “The Golden Claw” starring Bessie Barriscale and “The Best of Enemies” starring Joe Weber and Lew Fields

May 13: Short films “The Oath of Hate,” “Selig-Tribune No. 35,” and “Ham and the Masked Marvel”

Dodge City Daily Globe, May 13, 1916

May 15: “The Fourth Estate” starring Clifford Bruce and Ruth Blair

Dodge City Daily Globe, May 13, 1916

May 16: Grand Army of the Republic opening session followed by short films “None So Blind,” “The Dumb Heiress,” and “Home Made Pies”

Dodge City Daily Globe, May 16, 1916

May 17: GAR business session followed by “The Writing on the Wall” starring Virginia Pearson and Joseph Kilgour and an unnamed Frank Daniels comedy

Dodge City Daily Globe, May 16, 1916

May 18: GAR business session followed by short films “The Resurrection of Hollis,” “The Human Telegram,” and “The Tank Town Troupe”

Dodge City Daily Globe, May 18, 1916

May 19: “Aloha Oe” starring Willard Mack and Enid Markey and “The Village Scandal” starring Fatty Arbuckle

May 20: Short films “Celeste of the Ambulance Corps,” “Selig-Tribune No. 37,” and “The Double-Cross”

Dodge City Daily Globe, May 20, 1916

May 22: “The Serpent” starring Theda Bara and “Chinatown Villains” starring Jack Abbott

Dodge City Daily Globe, May 20, 1916

May 23: “The Quality of Faith” starring Gertrude Robinson and Alexander Gaden and “The Dashing Druggist’s Dilemma” starring Jay C Yorke and Frances Keyes

Dodge City Daily Globe, May 23, 1916

May 24: “The Discard” starring Virginia Hammond and Ernest Maupain

Dodge City Daily Globe, May 23, 1916

May 25: “The Love Liar” written, directed by, and starring Crane Wilbur

Dodge City Daily Globe, May 25, 1916

May 26: “Between Men,” starring William S Hart and House Peters and “Dizzy Heights and Daring Hearts” starring Chester Conklin and Claire Anderson

May 27: Betty Beeson’s ninth birthday party at the matinee showings of “The Flying Twins” (shown at matinee only), “Unlucky Luke,” an installment of “See America First,” and another unnamed comedy

Dodge City Daily Globe, May 30, 1916

Dodge City Daily Globe, May 27, 1916

May 29: “The Ruling Passion” starring William E Shay and Claire Whitney

Dodge City Daily Globe, May 27, 1916

May 30: “A Submarine Pirate” starring Syd Chaplin and Phyllis Allen and “Fatty and Mabel Adrift” starring Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand

Dodge City Daily Globe, May 30, 1916

May 31: “The Rosary” starring Kathlyn Williams

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