The view from 3rd Street looking north on Broadway, June 14, 1916. One hundred and ten years ago this month, Grace Kingsley mentioned a big event in downtown Los Angeles: There are a few patriots among the motion-picture people, who proved it by turning out in the preparedness parade yesterday. Charles Clary and William Burness from the Fox company, and Dot Cummings and Ray Meyers are among the best-known of the motion-picture folk who proved their patriotism by taking the twenty-block march. A number of Universalites also marched. Earlier she reported that the marching Universal Studio stars included J. Warren Kerrigan, Carter de Haven, Herbert Rawlinson, Cleo Madison and Marie Walcamp, as well as all the Spanish American War veterans and even a few Civil War vets. They joined fellow Southern Californians in a march to support the Federal government’s increased military spending, just in case somebody invaded. Los Angeles Mayor C.E. Sebastian had proclaimed it was for “the…
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