How I Grew Up With the Motion Picture Business
The memoir outlines a child star who began at three in Chicago and rose through stage work with Marie Burghs and others to film. She recalls early cheap productions, Mary Pickford’s rise, and training under director Frank Powell, then joining Cecil B. De Mille’s Paramount with roles in The War r ens of Virginia The Captive Stolen Goods and The Clue. Now firmly in California cinema, she longs for open spaces and plans to stay in film.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Marie Burghs
Holbrook Blinn
Maurice Arrymore
Comny
Auncey Olcott
Frank Powell
Mary Pickford
Maine
Iss Pickford
California
Mr. Powell
Bernhardt
Bethulia
D. W. Griffith
Jesse L. Lasky
Paramount Pictures
Agatha Warren
Cecil
Lasky
Becky
Paramount
False Colors in The Red Circle at Victoria Theatre
A cinema blurb notes June Travis, Lamar, and Max Ia pursuing clues linked to the Borden clan during a Victoria Theatre show. The plot centers on a Red Circle hand mark, lost notes, and a high explosive sale as the next chapter promises revelations in the episode titled False Colors.
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Borden
Max Ia
June Travis
Lamar
June
Mary
Max
Dsein
Miss Travis
Sam Egan
Borden Clan
Egan
Alma la Salle
Surfton
Travises
Jamar
The Warning at Liberty Theatre
The Liberty Theatre presents The Warning a five part Equitable feature starring Henry Kolker. The drama visualizes the evils of the drink habit without sermon and aims to surpass Trilby in impact with vivid forceful storytelling.
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Equitable
Erty Theatre Today
Henry Kolker
Trilby
An Enemy to Society at the Grande Theatre
Columbia Pictures presents Hamilton Revelle and Lois Meredith in George Bronson Howard's tale of Balthazar Van Tromp who kidnaps Stephen Janissary 2nd to ruin his rival. The boy grows up as Stephen Adams a self styled Robin Hood raised by crooks and taught crime to steal from the rich for the poor. The film follows his life as a modern outlaw and anti hero.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia Picture Corporation
Hamilton Revelle
Lois Meredith
George Bronson Howard
Stephen Janissary
W Napoleon
Balthazar van Tromp
Big Steve
van Tromp
Stephen Adams
Stephen
Robin Hood
Maryland Fights Child Labor With Eight Hour Day
Baltimore reports that the Child Labor and School Attendance committees push an eight hour day for working children, end to night work, and a mandatory school law without exemptions. They cite 1915 data on licensed child work, illiteracy, and exemptions, and plan a national bill to ban interstate shipment of child made goods.
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Baltimore
Child Labor Committee
Annapolis
Maryland
United States
National
Congress
Champlin’s Maryland Thrills Capacity Audiences
Weather cold, crowds fill the Maryland as Chas. K. Champlin and his company set attendance records. Tonight offers The Ninety and Nine, a melodrama with a dramatic locomotive scene. Champlin owns rights. tomorrow features Under Cover, direct from New York, with Madame X planned for Wednesday.
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Maryland
Chas. K. Champlin
Ngs
Foreat Tire
Champlin
New York City
Mother Love
Wailing Reformer vs. Local Needs Highlighted
A sharp clash emerges between a reformer who preaches aid to distant peoples and a neighborly demand for real help at home. The piece notes several local families seeking consolation and assistance from the apparent doer of good works.
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Berkeley
Cal
New York
Gertrude Hoffman
Charlotte Temple
A Gun
Thomas Wise
Mississippi
William A. Brady
Mr. Wise
Mr. Brady
Tom
Blanch
Lasky-Paramount
Victoria Theatre
Victoria
Pathe
Ruth Roland
Frank Mayo
Marguerite Clark
Famous Players-Paramount
Liberty Theatre
Columbia Pictures Corporation
The
Daintiest
Thrilling Story
Monland Theatre
Clever Stock Co
Star
Mr. Champlin
Consola
Tion
O Ae
Baltimore St
Cumberland
Aeolian Vocalions
Edison Diamond Disc
Victor Victrola Phonographs
Cumberland, MD
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