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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1922
Page
9
A prankish monkey entered a coed dorm room in Berkeley and seized lingerie as a crowd gathered, causing alarm and police to cordon the area before the animal was captured and claimed by its Italian owner.
Royal Brown presents a humorous piece titled Shoes and Stockings to appear in the Boston Sunday Post Magazine. The column promises light humor and social observations in a playful tone.
The Rev Dr J C Massee in Tremont Temple sermons warns that the scarlet woman fuels divorce jealousy and murder citing a Boston social worker and a Bible text from Joshua urging women to fight this degradation. He calls it the tragedy undermining morals and notes social ills after World War. Also a note on coal use wasting 800 million bushels of wheat potential fertilizer.
A Paris based French comedian travels to Paris to film portraits then plans a rapid return to the United States for further production work. Max Linder, wounded in World War I, moved to America for motion pictures where he found success as a pantomimist and later worked independently after a Robertson-Cole contract. His latest U.S. release The Three Must-Get Theirs parodies The Three Musketeers and features a large company of trained minor players who may become future leading stars.
At the Long Island studio the Paramount Stock Company welcomes George Melford as director and Leatrice Joy James Kirkwood Raymond Hatton and Jacqueline Logan as stars for Java Head adapted from Joseph Hergesheimer. Exterior shooting will occur in Salem Massachusetts.
Lillian Gish signs a contract with Inspiration Pictures Inc to make a series of pictures. The White Sister will be her first production with exteriors planned in Italy. Dorothy Gish also signs, joining Viola Allen and Richard Barthelmess in the same company.
Gener Stratton Porter, author of Freckles and The Harvester, organizes a motion picture company to film her works. The first production will be Michael O Halloran. The studio base will be Thomas H Ince studios in Hollywood.
The article reports a shift away from the term extra in motion pictures toward actors and actresses in minor parts. At Lasky studio the change is highlighted, with Paramount casting director Lou M Goodstadt explaining extras once described untutored crowd fillers, now replaced by credited minor roles.
Antonio Moreno, a leading screen star, is now at the Lasky studio in Hollywood to play opposite Gloria Swanson in His American Wife. Critics note his past unlucky story selections but suggest the right material could make him a top male actor in cinema drama.
Citizens discuss Marguerite Clayton and Broncho Billy Anderson in Essanay days. Rudolph Valentino reportedly courted for vaudeville but has not agreed. Richard Barthelmess film Fury delayed after The Bondboy release. Blood and Sand stage version starred Otis Skinner and Catherine Calvert at Hollis Street Theatre last winter.
A French company formed near Bordeaux plans to import a new non alcoholic grape product to the United States. They claim it differs from the California juice and is not in violation of the Volstead Act. Agents will travel to America to seek orders with sample cases on display.
Distinguished Shakespeare lovers from around the world gather in Stratford upon Avon for a life sized Edwin Booth portrait ceremony placed among portraits of Irving Bernhardt Duse Fechter and other famed interpreters. American theatre figures E H Sothern Julia Mark Terry and a George Harvey ambassador attend the event.
A playful royal piece titled Shoes and Stockings unfolds with light whimsy, set against Boston’s social scene. The anecdote sketches courtly fashion intrigue and local reactions to royal follies.
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