Myra Kingman

As a journalist in the midwest, Myra Kingman was Sunday editor of the Peoria Daily Transcript, on staff as a special correspondent at the Chicago Chronicle, and secretary of the Northwest Editorial Association.

[1] In 1908, she established the first movie theatre for children, in Long Beach, California.

[4] During World War I she was appointed by Woodrow Wilson to an advisory board in the United States Department of Labor.

[5] After the war she organized a Foreign Film Unit of American women, showing instructional films about hygiene, public health, cooking, farming, and other topics in France, Russia, Italy and elsewhere, to support reconstruction in war-affected places.

"[7] In 1920 she led the American delegation at the International Council of Women meeting in Christiania, Norway, while she was on her honeymoon.