It was a car racing movie.
As we've noted here before, in the teens it was common to release movies on Sunday, taking advantage of the fact that most people had the day off. The Roaring Road was an exciting car racing movie, in which the protagonist pursued his love interest and auto racing with equal vigor, showing how automobiles were really coming in.
If car racing wasn't your thing, on the same day Select Pictures released "Redhead".
I suspect that this is a lost film as details on the film are really sketchy, but movie taglines for it are really odd. Alice Brady's character is described as such a tantalizing beauty that men "didn't care what color her hair was". Eh? And an alternative poster states "This is the girl he found himself married to".
I suppose a person would have to see it to figure that one out.
Other romances were also released to the sliver screen on this day.
Wow. What a turgid plot.
Comedies were also in the offering, including a short featuring a wealthy man whose is a victim of mistaken identity.
Well, while people back in the states were seeing the latest pictures, soldiers were doing what they have for time immemorial. Marching.
31st Infantry marching near Vladivostok.
The area around Vladivostok in this photo looks a lot, quite frankly, like winter scenes in Wyoming.
Those same troops had recently been fighting. And fighting was still going on most definately, including between the Estonians and the Reds.
Anton Irv
Estonian officer, and former Imperial Russian enlisted man and then officer, was killed in action on this day in 1919 in that conflict. He'd been one of the organizer of Estonia's armored trains, something that featured prominently in that war and in the Russian Civil War. In the East, armored trains would continue to be a feature of conflict into World War Two.
Elsewhere some other Reds or proto Reds went home.
Members of the Limerick Soviet
The goofball Limerick Soviet came to an end after a little over week of being in existence when the local mayor and the local Bishop asked them to knock it off. They then voluntarily closed up shop.
Readers of the Cheyenne papers learned that Wyoming artillerymen would not be coming home soon.
Among other things they also read that Carranza could not hold out much longer. The author of that article suggested American help to keep him in office would be required, which was a shockingly bad suggestion.
Chicago had its selection of Sunday cartoons of course, including ones that were not really intended to be funny.
Chicago had its selection of Sunday cartoons of course, including ones that were not really intended to be funny.
I's interesting that even in 1919, gas mileage was a topic.
And some folks in Alaska had their portrait taken.
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