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Newspaper
Bridgeport Times
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1920
Page
12
James Oliver Curwood, author of The Courage of Mage O'Doone and The River's End, is to form his own film producing company. Curwood, 42, lives in Oworso, Michigan. Darry Lemon is finishing a new comedy after The Grocery Clerk. Three Anal scenes are being shot this week.
Edward Dillon has been hired to direct Viola Dana in Parlor Bedroom and Bath, the Al Woods farce now touring after a New York run. Dillon, veteran director, began as an actor with Biograph and later moved to directing silent films. He recently directed Irene Castle in The Amateur Wife and has long been prominent in the motion picture industry.
At the Metro studios in Hollywood California Arthur Engel the treasurer greets writers Winchell Smith Bayard Veiller and Peter B Kyne who enter in response to a staging confusion. Smith oversees the picturization of The New Henrietta for Metro Veiller writes original dramas for Metro stars and Kyne has sold stories to Shurtleff Inc for pictures.
Vitagraph stars Warl Montgomery and Joe Rock to work separately after signing new contracts. The pair, long time co stars in Vitagraph Big V comedies, will produce two reel solo projects. Both actors rose from musical theater and athletics, with Montgomery from Alaska and Rock once a New York physical director. They have appeared together in over fifty comedies.
Bert Lytell, walking from Metro studios to his Hollywood Home, narrowly avoids a mugging at a lonely street corner. A heavy-voiced man asks directions to the Hollywood Hotel, and the film star offers to guide him, joining in step and chat as dusk gathers and lamps remain unlit.
William Duncan makes rapid progress on his $1,000,000 serial The Silent Avenger with Edith Johnson as lead. The company just returned from mountain shoots featuring dangerous foothill roads and Duncan in motorcycle policeman roles.
The Polls theatre bills a big photodrama The Woman in Room 13 starring Pauline Frederick and features Marguerite Snow and Emily Chichester from Norwalk. Vaudeville lineups include Princess Jonia Hawaiian act Mme Anna Ottan and contortionist acts. Plaza showcases A Manhattan Knight with George Walsh and a Pekin vaudeville headliner. Lyric opens The Tiger Lady a melodrama with Mary Ann Pentier Arthur Chatterdon and Willard Dashiell. Shubert presents A Week End Marriage by Owen Davis. Empire screens An Adventure in Hearts with Robert Warwick, a Prince of intrigue and romance, amid a menu of film attractions.
A quiet walk with family members turns into a heated exchange between Sid Hunt and his father and Mr. Hunt. The dispute over politics escalates into insults with claims of dishonesty and calls of names while a bystander notes Sid’s bragging about a dog.
May Allison returns to Hollywood studios after a two week Santa Barbara location for The Cheater by Henry Arthur Jones. Director Henry Otto oversees a nearly finished production with only several interior settings left. Her next picture will be Fine Feathers by Eugene Walter.
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