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Newspaper
Bridgeport Times
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1920
Page
2
D The column riffs on theater legends and trivia. It jokes about George Cohan middle initials Lenore Ulric spelling, and a wry exchange with a manager about ushers as key theatre figures. The tone is light and anecdotal with playful quips.
H B Warner stresses thorough rehearsal and self reminder notes for his roles. He believes most successful people are good actors and that mental rehearsal helps anticipate others and flavor his own approach. He notes actors should study their part and not perform aimlessly.
A Metros west coast studio report cites changing style as hair and attire shift. Director Philip E. Rosen notes difficulty finding tail queues for oriental recruits and jokes about engaging Chinamen. Martha Mansfield buys a navy blue suit with a blue jet embroidery waist.
Ida May Park, a leading female director, predicts the next epochal advance in motion pictures will be chemical. She expects sensitized photographic plates to capture subtle light and shadow, making realism far surpass current techniques and potentially rendering talking pictures merely technical wonders.
Alphonz Ethier recalls a low reception during an early performance of In Darkest Russia in a second floor grocery-store opera house. The audience showed no applause and the manager asked how to gauge interest, noting patrons were waiting for the grocery downstairs to close at half past nine.
Johnny Hines stars in a Sewell Ford comedy where double photography fuels the fun at a masquerade. The plot hinges on a thief and Torchy wearing the same costume, with mirrored gags and a red headed office boy returning stolen necklaces to women.
Queer turns of motion picture production are shown as Eadie Barry, known for burlesque feminine roles in Christie comedies, is loaned to Julian Eltinge to play the lead. Eltinge will impersonate a woman. Barry has appeared as a dancing girl in Mr Fatima and as the other woman in Body’s Wife to act as chaperon for his two friends.
May Allison famous Metro blonde leads a rowdy midnight beach party for the film Are Wives to Blame? with a Paris made $1400 sequined gown worn briefly. She spent $200 per minute of filming and the gown was ruined.
New York City December 8 The Motor Truck Association of America will stage a Highway Transportation Show January 3 1921 at the Twelfth Regiment Armory and related venues. The event will feature a large collection of highway transportation films including What's Venetta Hurry and The Neck of the Bottle to illustrate truck work in New York City and the broader shift from rail and water routes. The films target business users truck owners and operators highlighting haulage tasks unique to motor trucks in a highly motorized metropolis.
Lillian Rich and H B Warner discussed the trope of foreign nobles seeking heiress brides. A London ball overheard remark by a Baron to a banker highlights the era's wealth anxieties. Helen Sedgwick nears completion of The Diamond Master serial in the Saturday Evening Post.
A humorous survey of romance pitfalls and cautions about weddings and lovers. It jokes about misunderstandings as spice in love, warns against well meaning saviors, and hints at dramatic encounters and swift marriages with playful historical slang.
A historic motion picture written directed and produced by a recruit from spoken drama is being completed at Peerless Studios Fort Lee under W K Ziegfeld sponsorship The cast features Florence Reed Emile Chautard Philip Bartholomae Tyrone Power Norman Trevor Earle Foxe Henry Stephenson William Roselle Paula Shay Mile Dazie among other stage stars
Ralph Ince directs and stars in The Highest Tan as he returns to the Lincoln role. An all star cast for A Man's Homes includes Morey Williams Valentine Bottomley Binney Moore Seddon. The Fishter by Terhune stars Tearle for Selznick after this project. Kad Teal hosted a birthday party at Selznick Fort Lee studios with Jaine Hammerstein and twenty girls filming Poor Dear Margaret Kirk on site. Eugene O Brien and Worlds Apart unit return to Fort Lee after fox hunting scenes in Warrenton Virginia with over twenty society participants in chase scenes.
The article profiles Lucky Elinor Lynn, a new leading woman who rose from Salt Lake City after entering a Los Angeles screen contest. Joey McCreery traveled by train after reading of the Ince studios contest, won top tests, earned a screen role, and was spotted by Jack White. She has adopted a new stage name for easier public recognition.
During filming of The Devil To Pay a glamorous aspiring actress pitches for a leading role in Robert Brunton's project. Brunton expresses regret and offers a smaller part at first as the actress negotiates pay and potential ballroom scene work. Douglas Fairbanks is noted for comparison to a glamorous leading lady standard.
Realart presents Oh Lady Lady a second screen vehicle for Bebe Daniels as May Barber a small town belle who becomes a touring actress amid an innocent conspiracy against her old country sweetheart. Harrison Ford and Walter Hiers co star delivering broad comic support in a tale of mistaken plans and romantic entanglements.
The Times announces a new Stage and Screen page to educate readers about moving pictures. It argues cinema shapes manners and morals and will provide news on upcoming releases, critical notes, and advanced bookings for its audience.
Director Erich Von Stroheim denounces producers for fakery in movie settings and costumes. He says audiences, now more worldwise after World War I, demand authentic locales or exact replicas. He cites familiarity with European boulevards, uniforms, and cafes as reason for viewer discernment.
Grace Valentine, famed stage and screen star, joins Myron Selznick's Selznick Pictures for a leading part in the all star Ralph Ince Special Production Man's Home. She completes a roster including Harry Morey Kathryn Named Nama Matt Moore Fake Binney and Roland Bottomley, with a career spanning Morosco Theatre Los Angeles stock and recent London or road tours.
A California story grounds the forthcoming Metro picturization What Is The Matter With Marriage based on Jack London The Little Lady of the Big House. The production features immense wealth and dramatic scenes on a palatial ranch including a large concrete-lined swimming tank.
Verh Curwin, a ue mussim actress, arrives in America with husband and son at eighteen for the Goldwyn Rex Resch photoplay The North Wind's Malice. She is known for character acting in Humoresque. Mary Pickford to begin Little Lord Fauntleroy auditions spring with interiors here and exteriors abroad.
A freshman recounts a school trip to honor a famed Imperial Theatre star during his jubilee. She recalls the moment he delivered a powerful line and then broke the mood with a casual joke about an empty table and a missing cigar, ending with a dropped bouquet and a sense of loss.
During filming, an ill extra asks to be excused. H B Warner asks to see the tongue, and the extra quips that no tongue can tell how bad he feels, delaying the scene.
Cullen Landis, bawn and raised in Nashville Tennessee, expects to freeze in exterior scenes for Reginald Thar ker's Snow Blind ness as his company relocates to Banff Canada. The crew now at Goldwyn studios will depart in about three weeks.
Leatrice Joy appeared as guest of honor at a Commercial Club luncheon in Los Angeles. Joy praised the leading role in Bunty Pulls the Strings, a Ronald Barker production just completed.
Raymond Hatton, a familiar Goldwyn character actor, ponders why a crying baby is luckier than he is. He answers his own riddle, noting the baby can always draw laughter from an audience, and demonstrates his modesty in the process.
Deraldina the New York police lieutenant and Metro star joined Mayor Snyder on a LA air tour to view city traffic. The brief seventeen minute flight offered a rapid look at ground congestion from the sky. Jerome Patrick, actor son of a New York stage star, is noted in a separate film reference.
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