This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 9 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Canton Daily News
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1925
Page
15
An unclear OCR fragment mentions a person Curtus alongside others. The readable bits suggest a local notice or brief item but names and context are damaged. No firm event or outcome can be established from the legible text.
In Shanghai a film training boom grows as Miss Bayley from Hollywood teaches Chinese youths emotion and gesture for cinema. Pupils rehearse scenes with Chinese slips and English guidance, aiming to blend Eastern feeling with Western acting styles amid a budding local film industry.
The Commercial Press Studio leads Chinese film with dramatic and educational works. The Peacock Motion Picture Corporation, a Sino American company with 5 million dollars capital, was incorporated in Delaware in November 1922 and owns a Shanghai studio and lab. Salaries for actors are low with top stars at 150 dollars a month and extras at 60 cents daily. The Hamilton gatory was completed recently and features satire of English society. Edward Everett Hale's The Man Without a Country will be adapted as As No Man Has Loved.
Peggy Hopkins Joyce Countess Morner will debut on the screen in a drama written for her by Cosmo Hamilton. The P. A. Powers company will produce the picture. Anthony Paul Kelly, author of several screen and stage successes, is connected to the project.
New York previews show Ruth Chatterton in The Little Minister at the Globe and The Blue Peter at Fifty-Second Street Theater. The Little Minister relies on Chatterton’s talent to carry the revival while The Blue Peter risks melodrama with savages and gunfire but leans toward a psychological sentimental core. Michael Arlen travels from London to supervise rehearsals for The Green Hat adaptation, aiming for a Belmont Theater premiere.
Raud Walsh who directed The Thief of Bagdad will helm the large scale production The Wanderer based on the famous Biblical play about the prodigal son. Cecil B. DeMille has signed two new funds in Sally Long and Majel Coleman, famed beauties.
Norma Shearer stars in Monta Bell’s Lady of the Night at the Grand for Tuesday and Wednesday. She plays two contrasting characters Molly and Florence across high society and slum life, with director Bell using dual roles to explore identical traits under different environments. The cast also features Malcolm McGregor George K Arthur Freda Pilmelton and Dale Fuller with adaptation by Allee D. G. Miller.
Lisale and Blake star in The Chocolate Dandies a 125 member chorus of colored talent. A horse race in the first act leads to a jungle revel second act as Eubie Blake conducts and Noble Slesie Allen performs with the duo.
Filming of I'll Show You the Town directed by Harry A. Pollard paused at Universal City due to illness of star Reginald Denny who was confined to bed with a flu attack. Cast includes Marton Nixon Edward Kimball Silvan Tashman Hayden Stevenson Clumsy Fitzgerald Margaret Livingston Neely Edwards William A. Carroll Martha Mattox and Lionel Braham.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.