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Entertainment in 1922

In Adelaide on November 18th 1922 you could have gone to see Charlie Chaplin in Tillie's Punctured Romance at The York. Why it was on so late after it was released I don't know, did it take 8 years to make it to South Australia? It is advertised as "The Biggest Show in Town" so you would take from that that it hadn't been shown beforehand. It is the largest ad by far taking up nearly a 1/4 of the page. So what else could you see if you had already seen Tillies. There is Harold Lloyd in Get Out and Under (c 1920) or Never Weaken (1921). Douglas Fairbanks could be seen in When the Clounds Roll By (1919) , this is advertised as his new big picture, but it was nearly 3 years old in 1922. Mary Miles Minter could be seen in The Little Clown(1921). The Sheik too was playing, which I assume was the 1921 Valentino movie, not the 1922 British made movie, it is "advertised as "The Grand Farewell Screening of", so I think I am correct in my assumption...