Critic critiques long openings in stage and screen films
Philadelphia North American criticizes excessive prologues in silent pictures, noting many start with drawn out explanations and vague philosophy. The piece surveys several films and stars including Hugo the Mighty, Husbands Only, Sylvia, Everybody's Girl, Woman's Weapons, Temple of the Kaw, and upcoming productions and cast changes in 1918 1919.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weil Beeun
Philadelphia
Hugo the Mighty
Monroe Salisbury
Salisbury
Mildred Harris
Hner
Sylvia
Barbara Castleton
Alice Joyce
Henry
Ihre X. Gordon
J. Warren Kerrigan
Ethel Clayton
William Desmond
Stars in the making on the Over There circuit
Rebecca Drucker profiles the Overseas vaudeville units forming the Over There theater league led by James Forbes. Performers travel in units to frontline posts, staging rapid shows in huts, fields, and hospital wards to boost morale as they assemble a stock company for future tours. The letters describe endurance, improvisation, and the promise of postwar reunions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Metropolitan Opera House
West
Fourth Street
Teag ‘Orbes
Rebecca Drucker
New York Tribune
League
Forbes
Stata
Vaudevillians
Toul
Mhan
Tran
Mr. Forbes
France
Mecca
James Forbes
Over Thers Theater League
Tam
Stage Notes From a Busy Vaudeville Season
Variety of theater news. Corbett and Dick Wilson form a new vaudeville team while Doris Rankin and Malcolm Morton star in Betty at Bay. Florence Moore performs Take Her, Al. The cast of Cappy Ricks includes Abbe, Kelly, Coakley, Moore, and others. Margarite Sylvia debuts in New York in a dramatic play sans music. Italian dialect revival society forms in Rome under the education minister. David Held’s Pioneer revival at New York’s Stan Opera House extended to December. The Foe features Gilmour, Grandin, Parrett, Andrews, Mac Donald, Rogers, Archdall, Congravy, Vivian. Treut’s plane tragedy items arrive in New York to join a fraternity memento. Rin Bad’s 300th performance at the Garden marks a long run, Jolson’s Garden show tops previous records. Julian Eltinge to tour vaudeville with Morris. Thompson to appear in The Straight Toad at Keith’s. Roads of Destiny by Pollock previews fate shaping character. Enid Bennett, now Americanized, stars in Paramount’s ass and Feathers and new era comedies. Bennett’s recent films include When Do We Eat Coals of Fire The Vamp A Desert Loving and The Biggest Show on Earth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P Fa
Enid Bennett
Thomas H. Ince
Paramount Pictures
Ince Himes
Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Ray
Heywood Brown
New “York ‘Tribune
New York
Peter Piper
Humpty Dumpty
Lightnin
Camilla
Telddie
Retrospect of Years in the World of Drama
The piece discusses the future of drama amid the rising film flood and quotes Heywood Brown on motion pictures. It cites critics and actors including Otis Skinner, noting how stage and screen balance, with examples of plays considered unfit and the resilience of live theatre.
Ingenious Seaman Murphy Seeks Leave Again
The Willpave Able Seaman Murphy crafts another excuse to obtain leave. The captain taunts him about needing time off for a relative's event and Murphy feigns a sob story about a blind brother regaining sight, provoking the captain to burst into laughter.
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Murphy
Pat
Burma Farm Records Count Hundreds Of Rice And Sesame Varieties
Burma government farms examined over 500 varieties of hisked rice and more than 200 types of sesame last year. Sesame exports from Burma have long reached Europe where it is used as a substitute for olive oil in many countries.
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Prom
Burma
Europe
Italy
Behind the Scenes in Filmdom Courtships and Careers
The piece notes a spate of ai ces and weddings in film lore including a divorce suit for a former leading lady and Mabel Norman's marriages. It highlights modeling work for Flagg Gibson and the Leyendeckers, Anita Stewart wardrobe details, Char les Romeo becoming Charles Raven, and Carol Holloway's divorce and screen debut with Leonore Hughes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry J. Waitham
Frank C. Badgley
Mabel Norman
James Montgomery Flagg
Charles Dana Gibson
The
Leyendeckers
Henry Hutt
Biograph Com
Anita Stewart
Charles ‘Romeo
Charles Raven
Carol Holloway
Jack Holloway
Leonore Hughes
Emerson-Loos
Plays and Players in Wartime Cinema and Vaudeville
The article notes Mitchell Lewis in Under Four Flags and a U S government film on Versailles with Allied command by Marshal Foch, plus re edits of The Life of General Pershing Why America Will Win. Gaby Deslys appears in color scenes from Pathe Color, Sydney Drew in Keep Her Smiling, and Paramount plans for new releases. It cites over 500 allied vaudeville artists who died in the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Marine Corps
Fantschi
Mitchell Lewis
Council of Versailles
Marshal Fock
Tola
Pershi
America
Gaby Deslys
Pathe Color Studatos
Sydney Drew
New York
Paramount
Albert Payson
Terhune
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Henry B. Walthall
National Film Corporation
Slaine Hammersein
Hea"sturners
Lew Ehrilter
Frank Keenan
Albert Payson Terhune
Bryant Washburn
John Barrymore
Tylex
Marcin
Roy Atwel
Geraldine Farrar
Hell Cat
Mary Maclaren
Elsie Ferg
Fred Stone
Artcraft
Johnny Get Your Gun
Frederick Orin Bartlett
Wallace Reid
Private Pettigrew
Dank Burnett
Ethel Slayton
Fox
Charlotte Walker
Argosy Company
Grace Cunard
John Mason
Pegey Shaw
Louis Bennison
Ruth Boland
Arthur 8. Teves
Charles Logue
Marry
Carmel Myers
AIDS
Elsie Ferguson
Artcraft Pictures
Heart of the Wilds
Aid
Reta
Will Cressy
Cressy & Dayne
Winthrop Ames
Ford
Paris
Leo Donnelly
Hamirock
Will J. Kennedy
Mae
Kennedy
Helen Goff
Wwe
Howard ‘Thomas Collin
London
James J. Corbett
Dick Wilson
Doris Rankin
Malcolm Mortmer
Florence Moore
George Fay
Cappy Ricks
Charles Abbe
Robert Kelly
Marion Coakley
Percival Moore
Lottie Alter
Margarite
Rome
Minister of Public Education
Goldont
David
Tan Opera House
Percy Gilmour
Ehner Grandin
Robert Parrett
Frank Andrews
A MacDonald
Marion’ Rogers
Mabel Archdall
June Congravy
Daisy Vivian
Treut
Bert Levy Jr
England
Zetafeta Tau
Columbus
Lieutenant Levy
al Jolson
Th Garden
Winter Garden
Julian Eltinge
William Morris
Mr Eltinge
Morris
Harry Lauder
Mr. Eltinge
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B. F. Keith
Mr. Thomyyson
Clay M. Greene
Channing Pollock
C. Henry
Florence Reed
Ameri
Otis Skinner
Hone
Mr. Skinner
Colonel Bridau
Lin
Mr Skinner
Cian
Henri Lavedan
Louis XVI
Edwin Anny Davenport
Lawrence Harrell
John McCullough
John
Augustin Daly
Helena Adam Cavendish
Seiameth
Mister
Antonio
Cambridge
Mass
Skinner
Ritz
Museum
Arch
Uncle Tom
Tale
Leary
Bryn Mawr
Bryn Mawr’ College
Chick” Evans
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