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“Olympia girl!” the Olympia newspapers proudly declared whenever one of Valentine Grant’s films played in local theaters. In the 1910s, films were still transitioning from being a novelty to being a form of mass popular entertainment and it gave local people a thrill to see one of their own on screen. ....