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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1918
Page
11
July Photo Play Magazine notes Elsie Ferguson as best dressed on screen, but Nazimova stands out for individuality in dress and work. A studio visit at Hotel Des Artistes reveals her disregard for fashion trends, valuing clothes to cover the figure and enhance grace.
Harold Lloyd, the Pathe star, is a strong War Stamp advocate. He dined at an Alexandria LA grill room, paid his bill, then left a twenty five cent thrift stamp on the change tray. The waiter accepted it and thanked him for the idea.
The United States Government aided the Metro film Lest We Forget starring Rita Jolivet, opening at Belasco theater on Tuesday through Thursday. General Lester’s Yonkers camp supplied 300 troops to construct trenches for battle scenes, supervised by an American Army officer skilled in French trench work. The trenches, near a French village built for the film, impressed French officers as accurate and the village’s defense against Germans was depicted with large-scale combat. Destruction scenes showed the village razed by German howitzers, with smoky ruins illustrating real wartime devastation.
Robert Thornby joins Wham Pox’s directing team and oversees a new Jewel Carmen vehicle based on Gouverneur Morris’s dissection of metropolitan life You Can’t Get Away With It. Production will be costly with Arizona and Catalina Islands shoots and ornate indoor sets. Other studios compete for motion picture rights.
Mary Mc Davitt's tragedy unfolds as she searches for her lost marriage and faces banishment, a child born out of wedlock, and harsh stigma. Seppe helps, Donald Strong falls for her, but society, a farmer Peters, and a court fight threaten happiness. The tale ends with a noble rescue and a final marriage plea. The Star theater presents the film Tuesday through Thursday.
Viola Dana, a young Metro star known for both stage and screen work, stars in a Belasco theater program today and tomorrow. Born in Brooklyn and educated in New York, she gained fame with The Poor Little Rich Girl on Broadway, where a record run followed. Her film career began with Mollie the Drummer Boy and flourished with Metro in titles like The Gates of Eden and The Girl without a Soul. Dana, barely 18, is widely beloved in cinema circles.
A dense list of film showings across Quincy and city venues. It covers multiple cinemas with daily lineups featuring stars such as Pearl White Doris Kenyon Louise Lovely Mary Miles Minter Gloria Swanson and Douglas Fairbanks plus war news reels and Illinois troops in service. The calendar runs Monday through Sunday with numerous titles including The Mouse of Hate The Germ Menace Woman and the Web Painted Lips The Last Express and Seven Swans among others.
Madge Kennedy applauds New York plans to officially designate places for old gold and silver appraisal and exchange for Thrift Stamps. She initiated the Stage Women's War Relief melting pots and supports expanding the program for a broader patriotic purpose.
In a spring scene at Goldwyn studios Mabel Normand is shown intensely top spinning while a circle of young fans gathers. The piece contrasts her activity with quieter stars like Madge Kennedy and Mae Marsh as seasonal boarders arrive and depart.
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