Cecil B DeMille's Male and Female opens at Rialto
Cecil B DeMille presents Male and Female at the Rialto with Gloria Swanson in baroque Babylonian splendor and Thomas Meighan leading a star cast. The film adapts J M Barrie's The Admirable Crichton, preserving its deep characterizations while delivering lavish sets and dramatic spectacle.
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Cecil B. de Mille
Paramount
London
Lady Mary
Mr. de Mille
Gloria Swanson
Thomas Meighan
Crichton
J. M. Barrie
Sir James
de Mille
Theodore Roberts
Lila Lee
Raymond Hatton
Mayme Kelso
Robert Caine
Edward Burns
U. It
Jeanie Macpherson
Youth myths and fears of films in Rupert Hughes remarks
Rupert Hughes argues that youths once faced harsher tales before films. He recalls pre movie dangers from ogres to cannibalistic nursery stories and historical violence, noting elders used vivid hell scenes and martyr chronicles to frighten children into submission.
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Rupert Hughes
Jack
Giant Killer
Hop O' My Thumb
Fenimore Cooper
Douglas Gerrard completes The Forged Bride new project planned
Douglas Gerrard, fresh from a Mary MacLaren production The Forged Bride by J G Hawkes, works on his next manuscript. Miss MacLaren will star in The R Better Half a New England story directed by Philip Rosen with Gerrard set to appear.
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Douglas Gerrard
Mary MacLaren
J. G. Hawkes
Miss MacLaren
New England
Universal
Philip Rosen
Junior of the Sea at Pantages Brightly Presents Arabian Nights
Denishawn dancers headline the Broadway Pantages vaudeville bill with Junior of the Sea a three act dance drama told by a storyteller. Princess Jular Prince Bedr Sasin odalisques eunuchs and merchants populate a fairy tale world set to brilliant incidental music. Frank Bosco debuts as a violin virtuoso joining Maurice Samuels company and drawing quick applause alongside Jones and Sylvester Muffs and Green and Push. Universal Current Events Weekly also appears.
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Denishawn
Jular
Bedr Sasin
Frank J. Bosco
Maurice Samuels
Chicago
Samuels
Bosco
Jones
Sylvester
Green
Push
Empress to Stage The High Cost of Loving at Family House
Miss Mary Newton stars in Kolb and Dill's farce The High Cost of Loving at Butte's Empress theater stock company. The plot centers on a married man tormented by a past affair as his wife leads the Purity league and a son question looms. The cast includes Albert Patterson Fannie Keeler Thomas Kreuger James Fulton Audrey Phalen and others in strong comedy roles. The play promises lively entertainment and a welcome cure for the blues.
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Mary Newton
Empress Theater
Kolb
Odill
Miss Newton
New York
Dill
Albert Patterson
Fannie Keeler
Thomas Kreuger
James Fulton
Audrey Phalen
Purity League
Butte
Vagabond Luck film at Orpheum earns wholesome applause
A boy, a girl, and a horse headline the Fox photoplay Vagabond Luck with Albert Ray and Elinor Fair. The tale features a racehorse named Vagabond, a mortgaged home, and a humorous miracle that resolves the plot in a wholesome, homey manner suitable for all audiences.
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Orpheum Theater
Albert Ray
Elinor Fair
Fox
Metro Pictures to screen rights for Four Horsemen
Metro Pictures announces purchase of screen rights to Vicente Blasco Ibanez’s The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse with options on other works. Negotiations concluded after Richard Rowland’s Hollywood studio visit. the novel sold amid bid competition and author approval. English translation rapid printing by E P Dutton Co. 32 printings in 1918 and hundreds of thousands of copies read within two years.
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Vicente Blasco Ibanez
Metro Pictures Corporation
Metro
Richard A. Rowland
Screen Classics, Inc
Hollywood
Charlotte Brewster Jordan
E. P. Dutton & Co
Filming of Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde Completed
Director John 8 Robertson finished filming the Clara Beranger adaptation of Stevenson's dual personality tale. John Barrymore stars as the good and evil Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde with Martha Mansfield as leading lady. Cast includes Brandon Hurst J Malcolm Dunn Cecil Clovelly and Nita Naldi. No exteriors shot in New York. London 1860 set built in Famous Players Lasky studios with Roy Overbaugh as cameraman and Shaw Lovett as assistant director.
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John 8. Robertson
Clara Beranger
Stevenson
John Barrymore
Richard Mansfield
Mr. Barrymore
Martha Mansfield
Brandon Hurst
J. Malcolm Dunn
Cecil Clovelly
Charles Lane
George Stevens
Nita Naldi
Dr. Jekyll
Mr. Hyde
New York
London
Famous Players’ Lasky Corporation
Roy Overbaugh
Shaw Lovett
Pauline Frederick Collects Rare 200-Year-Old Fans
Pauline Frederick, in peak fashion, displays a private obsession with fans. Her collection spans many countries and ages, including a 200 year old elaborate gold stick fan. She lends pieces for pictures at the Goldwyn studio and pursues increasingly valuable Spanish fans.
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Pauline Frederick
Miss Frederick
Goldwyn Studio
Alias Whispering White Romance Adventure Casts Harry Carey
Harry Carey will soon begin work on Alias Whispering White, a romance and adventure story. The ace of the saddle will act under director Lynn Reynolds, who supervised his last production Overland Tod.
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Harry Carey
Lynn Reynolds
Walter Long the Villainous Actor of Early Films
Walter Long rose from 1909 Broncho Billy debut to a serious screen career under D. W. Griffith. He became Gus in The Birth of a Nation and played about 20 roles in Intolerance. Now with Anita Stewart in The Fighting Shepherdess, he again portrays a villain.
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D. W. Griffith
Walter Long
Reliance
New York
Mr. Long
Mr. Griffith
Griffith
Gus
Ku Klux Klan
Coast Artillery
Anita Stewart
Caroline Lockhart
Fairbanks Risks Life to Rescue Prize Dog
Douglas Fairbanks faced a pack of about 15 coyotes while saving his prize malamute Rex near his Beverly Hills estate in the Santa Monica mountains. He fought them off with a walking stick as three servants on horseback rushed to help. Fairbanks suffered minor wounds, three coyotes were killed, and Rex was saved.
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Douglas Fairbanks
Beverly Hills
Santa Monica
Fairbanks
Rex
Screen
Goldwyn Pictures adopts yearlong policy of unique film quality
Goldwyn Pictures announces a New Year policy to release each film as a true individual work not mass produced. Directors and actors will have time and space to create high quality motion pictures, avoiding factory methods, with emphasis on personal effort and control over production pace.
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Goldwyn Pictures Corporation
Goldwyn
Geraldine Farrar
Reginald Barker
Culver City
Stuadios
Joldwyn
Textile Industry Reaches Two-Fifths of Normal in Devastated France
Figures indicate France's textile industry in affected regions has recovered to two-fifths of normal production. The data highlights gradual rebuilding after widespread devastation and outlines ongoing challenges for workers and mills.
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France
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