Added in June of 1991:
This picture taken in the fall of 1915 while Anita King stopped at Princess Theatre on her way from Los Angeles to New York promoting her picture.  I was 11 years old.  W.S. Bates was my uncle, and I sent this card to my Uncle Milford.

Photo of Anita is from Wikipedia's page. ------>

Learn much more about Anita King, The Paramount Girl who conquered a Continent.

Miss King is the first person, man or woman, who has ever passed over the Nevada and Utah deserts alone and lived to tell the story.  She has had many harrowing experiences, but likes to talk of her many pleasant ones the best.  In the desert she was troubled by dust and sifting sand and since then mud.  At one place she worked for hours trying to get her car out of a hole, shoveling mud and laying sage brush to support the wheels.  At last she succeeded only to get in another mud hole still worse a few yards ahead.  In Nebraska a man and a boy helped her out of a difficult place, so when she heard at the next town that night that they had broken down 15 miles away and could not get help she determined to return the favor.  She was due to leave the town at six o'clock the next morning, so she got up at four and went to return the kindness that had been shown to her.  The Lincoln Highway in Iowa, she says is the first good road she has found since leaving Los Angeles.

In Ames yesterday morning she stopped with her car in front of the Princess theater where many people stopped to see the car and the plucky girl that is making the unusual and difficult trip across the continent.  She talks most entertainingly and made many friends during the short time she was here.  Among the many others who called and were introduced by Mr. Foley of the Princess theater was the mayor.  It was arranged that Miss King and the mayor should have their pictures taken together, she in her car and he standing at the side.  They were supposed to be shaking hands, but it usually doesn't take ten or fifteen minutes just to shake hands.

After she and Mayor Sheldon had had their pictures properly taken together some Des Moines movie men appeared with a motion picture machine and took every one in sight.  There will be about a hundred feet of the pictures and will be shown at the Garden theater in Des Moines.  They will also be shown at the Princess theater here if possible, but the date cannot yet be announced.

With everyone paying Miss King all the honor possible it remained for the former mayor, J.G. Tilden, to pay her the greatest and final one just before she departed for Des Moines.  Mr. Tilden did not get to have his picture taken with her, so they went across the street to a refreshment parlor and drank root beer together.  He then presented her with three Ames pennants.

When she arrived in Boone Wednesday night she went directly to the theater, and the first thing she saw, as it happened, was herself on the screen.  In the picture she was beautifully dressed, but now she was all covered with mud from head to foot.  The same picture, "Snobs" in which she plays the leading part will be shown at the Princess theater here in a week or two.

Miss King is now 5 days behind her schedule but from now on the roads will be better and she has no doubt but that she will arrive in New York on time.