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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1913
Page
102
The article portrays the motion picture studio director as a relentless, all seeing boss guiding rehearsals, lighting, and camera work. It covers the director as stage manager, disciplinarian, and creative force shaping scenes from beggar to hero, often keeping actors in line with a whistle and constant critique.
During the decade 1900 to 1910 the white population rose about 22 percent while the Negro population grew around 11 percent. Immigration of whites affected the gains. without it whites would have increased about 2 percent. Indians rose 12 percent, Chinese declined, and the Japanese nearly tripled.
Manager Lytie promotes a Fiesta program with four weekly features at Wigwam No 2 on Mondays and Thursdays and at Wigwam No 1 on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Anderson stars in Broncho Billy's Reason. Pathe's Weekly and Pathe News flood and disaster clips will be shown, plus Matt and Jeff comedy, Selig elephant adventures with Miss Williams and Bosworth, and Lubin two reel The Power of the Cross. The Wrong Road to Happiness closes the lineup with a romantic tragedy about Jane Wilson and two paths in life.
The Grand theater apologizes to patrons for Satan not appearing Saturday due to reels arriving late. Reels should arrive in time for today. Fiesta Association takes over Monday and Tuesday, with regular programming resuming Wednesday featuring the Country Store. Bigelow Campbell and Rayden entertain with new songs, and Carnegie Alaska-Siberian pictures in six reels are planned soon.
An Essanay camera team braved martial law and flooded streets to film Dayton and other Ohio disaster zones. Charles Kaufman led the Chicago-to-Dayton trek, reaching the city 28 hours after news broke, with Omaha reporters arriving soon after to cover every key scene despite hostile guards and deep mud.
The Universal presents Robinson Crusoe on film delighting American boys with the island and its savage inhabitants. Edgena de Léspine rises as a popular film favorite after a stage vaudeville career. Her first major role was The Turning Point by Preston Gibson, followed by Mammy Lou and The First Baby sketches.
The first Screen Club ball in New York drew photoplay patrons and theatre managers nationwide. Leading stars attended and their beauty was praised as surpassing the Actors' Fund fair. Thanks were given to King Baggot, Herbert Brenon, Joseph W Farnham, and others for organizing the event.
The photoplay version of Oliver Twist starring Nat C Goodwin and produced by H A Spanath marked a distinct innovation in American feature film. Its success spurred rivals to form companies to bring Broadway stars to moving pictures as a new industry trend. Spanath is planning another major innovation.
Robert Olsson has just returned from Moscow where he filmed the czar and crown prince during their visit. He is credited with Swiss and Norwegian scenes and Life in Lapland for the Kine macolor service. He will join Alfred Gosden in California to film stock companies for new photoplays prepared by Lee Dougherty.
The article highlights stunt performers in early cinema, noting their dangerous work. Bryant Washburn of the company is described leaping 100 feet from Lincoln Park’s High Bridge into icy waters to heighten realism in a scene.
Don Meaney notes this week marks the anniversary of Miss Beverly Bayne debuting as a leading Essanay Film actress. Bayne, eighteen, with black hair and brown eyes, enjoys horseback riding and painting and cherishes letters from fans about her film work.
In Dayton Ohio three Animated Weekly camera men braved the flood as Loramie Dam failed, drowning the Gem City in rising waters. Two cameramen happened to be in the city and sheltered on upper hotel floors while documenting the disaster for Universal observers.
An estimated cost exceeding 12.09 million dollars anticipates a two track, four mile tunnel through the Selkirk mountains linking Calgary and Vancouver within a few years.
Robert H. Cochrane, a motion picture director, argues the industry is in its infancy and will educate future generations. He envisions films bringing Lincoln’s life from cabin to stage, reproducing battles, and teaching in schools as a powerful future tool. Film makers become educators advancing knowledge.
Arctic explorer Stefanson will start from San Francisco in May or June to film the White Eskimos. He will carry a complete motion picture outfit and 60,000 feet of film to prove his prior expedition reports. Supported by the Canadian government, he will survey Coronation Gulf, Dolphin and Union Straits, Prince Albert Sound and northern regions, recording climate, geology, flora and native life for scientists in Norway and Sweden. The project aims to present an exact visual record of the Arctic region to counter skepticism and show the people and landscape as seen.
Joseph W. Farnham named New York representative for the British American Film Manufacturing Company, Ltd. of Montreal. The firm will release historic Canadian subjects on a grand scale, tracing the country from early French era through Indian conflicts to English control and modern times.
A Buffalo Express cartoon gag shows a speaker asking why people rely on dictionaries for spelling while another quips that dictionaries always get it wrong, highlighting playful debate over spelling guidance.
The Princess Theatre announces a all star Animated Weekly program with music and varied features. Highlights include The Evil Genius and The Great Mystery three part dramas plus Knights of Rhodes and Bred in the Bone in three parts. Also shown are King Baggot in The Leader of His Flock and The Great Mystery. Additional shorts depict naval gun practice, Morgan’s death, Paris carnival Queen’s Day, and other current events.
In a letter to the Sacred Heart Review, Baker jokes about Barker’s motor having a pedometer used to measure walking distance, noting the other man meant a speedometer, then clarifying the instrument tracks steps. The exchange turns on a playful mix up of device names.
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