April 30, 1918 - The Great Northern Theatre

Mary's note from April 30 is somewhat confusing.  She starts by saying she worked hard all day, then treated herself to the movies.  The she says it was her day off and she went with sister Nora to the Great Northern, the sentence trailing off so that it doesn't actually say what movie she saw.

The Great Northern Theatre was playing Up the Road with Sallie, starring Constance Talmadge on April 30 in a double feature with Charlie Chaplin's A Dog's Life.  Constance Talmadge is sister to Norma Talmadge, also a movie star and who appeared in Ghosts of Yesterday, previously viewed by Mary.  A previous link to the Talmadge sisters covers their history in detail.

As with most of the theaters of the era, the Great Northern Theatre at 3639 N. Broad Street no longer exists.  Up the Road With Sallie is a romantic comedy based on a book by the same name by Frances R. Sterrett.  The movie is preserved in the UCLA Film and Television Archive.

A Dog's Life was Chaplin's for which he was paid an astounding $1 million was his first movie for First National Pictures and was filmed at his own studio in Hollywood on the corner or La Brea and Sunset Boulevard.  It can viewed online at YouTube.