Beauty Contest Winner Builds Acting Path at Universal
Gertrude Olmstead, Miss La Salle High School winner, has been hired by Carl Laemmle at Universal to appear in four series of pictures and star in a future film. Her first role in the two reel Western Tipped Off features Hoot Gibson opposite the studio’s leading cowboy star. Universal officials note many beauty contest winners fail as actresses, but Olmstead shows promise.
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Faire Binney Signs for Ince's A Man's Home
Faire Binney, popular ingénue, joins the starry Ince Special for A Man's Home. Her earlier successes include The Mine Pearl Miss, Sporting Life, Woman, Hero Comes the Bride, and The Wonder Bar with Coornes Carpentier, marking a high point in her screen career.
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Miss Jinnes
Maurice Tournen
Sporting Life
John Barrymore
Famous Players Producti
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Notable toils of theater folk and founders in early cinema
A string of anecdotes profiles actors and writers from Clyde Fitch to Marie Dressler, Wallace heirs seeking Ben Hur film rights, Rose Stahl and Jerusalem, Magic tales of Lee Ditrichstein and Henry Arthur Jones, and notes on women in English theatre, Herbert at the desk, and Sothern on his son Eddie.
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Town Scandals Burlesque at the Park This Weekend
Burlesque's newest production Town Scandals headlines a Park Theatre run Friday and Saturday led by AL Clark and Ethel Shutta with a strong supporting cast. The elaborate show features lavish costumes, scenery, and music as audiences follow a stylish chase through sartorial splendor.
Alice Lake Endures Harsh Shooting Conditions
Miss Alice Lake credits a strong constitution for weathering demanding shoots. She notes enduring cold Big Bear snow scenes and quick changes to ballroom attire in Mother Love at Metro's Hollywood studios, with no ill effects.
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Miss Lake
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Small details spoil outfits in fashion photography
A discussion on how tiny flaws ruin perfect appearances notes that ill fitting slippers betray a well styled look. It argues women use longer shoes for slender feet, and that shoe trees costing a dime could preserve shape, preventing embarrassment and preservingconfidence.
Toys Promised For Orphans By Viola Dana Show
Viola Dana plans to donate all the toys and articles used in her latest picture’s millionette show to a Los Angeles nursery. The toy collection includes many dots animals and items from her late Italian waif role, and she will provide the complete outfit to benefit motherless children.
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Viola Dana
Los Angeles
Skates From Dressing Room to Various Stages
Leatrice Joy skates from her dressing room to the different stages each morning, claiming this mode of motion blends speed and exercise and should be adopted by all leading film actresses.
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Tom Moore Takes Up Golf at Goldwyn Studios
actor Tom Moore has begun playing golf and is often seen on the studio links between scenes. He will appear in Rupert Hughes Hold Your Morses, a full length stage play.
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A Day's Diet and Misfit Wife Film Showings
Director Mason N. Litson guides Johnny Jones and cast through rough two reel comedies based on Booth Tarkington. A Day is the working title for this episode as the star seeks to steady weak relatives. Pathe News and Edgar's Jonah Day two reel comedy accompany. Tomorrow features Alice Lake in A Misfit Wife.
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JOTTINGS By D. & L Calamity and the bobbed hair fad
A column of humorous notes on trending bobbed hair, vaudeville quirks, and social foibles. It riffs on fashion shifts, theatrical agents, light gossip, and playful jabs at celebrities like Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, ending with a rueful view of a rough world.
Screen styles for fashionable 1920s silk frocks
Nuns silk crepe forms the base for Elaine Hammerstein in Poor Dear Margaret Kirby. Keefe wears a Mandarin lounge costume in a decorated Japanese den. Grace Valentine touts a negligee in audubon velvet. Lamia braid on midnight blue twill outfits Elaine Hammerstein street frock. Faire Binney awaits ice skating season for a mole quilt costume with a small cap.
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Margaret Kirby
Wenn Keefe
Grace Valentine
Faire Binney
Cameras Sank In Pacific While Filming Foolish Wives
Two $3,500 cameras and $500 of equipment disappeared into the Pacific after a giant wave swept the barge off Lobos Point near Monterey California where Erich von Stroheim was shooting scenes for Foolish Wives. A huge loss of 800 feet of film and gear jeopardizes the production as Universal weighs salvage or retakes.
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Movie Studio Gleanings Preview of Flurry of Castings
Award J. Montaigue develops the scenario for Bucking the Tiger to be a film, with May Tully and Achmed Abdullah as authors. casting undecided. Zena Ixeefe returns from West Plains after a late vacation. Eugene O'Brien trains in the New York Athletic Club gym and pursues outdoor sport. Martha Mansfield garners attention from fashion houses for winter costumes. Conway Tearle’s The Fighter begins filming with first scenes. Worlds Apart features an oriental cabaret scene shot at Selznick's Wort Lee studio with Eugene O'Brien in the cast, and Society Snobs is completed by Tearle in a Hobart Henley production. The Road of Ambition showcases steel production sequences.
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Sunshine Baby Sunbeam Actress Beulah Miggins Career
Beulah Frances Miggins known as the Sunshine Baby has a long screen life at age two. She first appeared with Virginia Pearson at ten weeks and later acted with William Farnum in Heart Strings. Daughter of Michael and Miggins, she was born October 4, 1018, and her twin brother died in infancy.
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William Fox
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William Farnum
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Noted Actress Admits Stage Fright and Foreign Talent Rising
New York’s diverse population fuels drama and music scenes with many nationalities represented in recent shows. Spain gains prominence after Benavente’s Passion Flower, Nance O Neil’s productions, and Marit Grover’s acclaimed performances at Princess Theatre. Grover, though Cantilian by birth, penned popular song Because I Am Waiting for You published by Remick. Madame Grover has performed more Spanish music in New York than any contemporary.
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Nance O'Neil
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New York
Vivian Martin Worked on Stage Before Films
Vivian Martin, known for leading roles in Kendal Robert W. Chambers productions, began on the stage before entering movies. Her early stage work included The Song of the Soul, and she later starred in Officer 666 and Stop, both adapted into films by Goldwyn.
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Robert W. Chambers
Goldwyn
Craven Plans New Year Night at Gaiety Then Back to Little Theatre
Frank Craven of The First Year plans to witness the lifting of the curtain on the 1,000th performance of Prank Bacon in Lightnin at the Gaiety Theatre on New Year’s Eve. He will then hurry by taxi to his own Little Theatre shop. The cradle used by the late Richard Mansfield was improvised from a bureau drawer.
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Prank Bacon
Gaiety Theatre
Little Theatre
Richard Mansfield
Biography of Sir Herbert Tree
The late Sir Herbert Tree, a versatile international figure, is remembered for his gripping stage creations such as Svengali in Trilby and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. A new biography from E. P. Dutton & Co. compiles intimate sketches by his wife and tributes from peers, with his wartime America writings reprinted. Fritz Kriester doubts any woman could perform some demanding violin works like Brahms concerto.
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