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Hollywood stars and Rin Tin Tin on local screens
Dorothy Dwan rises from extras to leads in films like Mc Fadden Flats at the Fair. Rin Tin Tin stars in Tracked by the Police at the Mission through a Western dam-building tale. Mary McAlister shows double roles and twins in Hollywood life while Morton Kaer follows cinema to Buster Keaton’s College.
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McFadden Flats
Charlie Murray
Harry Snodgrass
Rin Tin Tin
Collegian
Bar X
Pete Pate
Rialto
Code of
Nida
Dorothy Dwan
Philadelphia
Hollywood
West
Dorothy
Miss Dwan
Edward Small
Rin- Tin-Tin
London
Kentucky
Mission
Arizona
Laguna Dam
Dan Thomas
Calif
Makebelieve Village
Mary McAlister
Mary
Dame Fortune
Cinema Gold
Morton Kaer
University of Southern California
Red” Grange
Kaer
Buster Keaton