Novelty acts and Dan McGrew film at Royal theater
The Royal vaudeville bill opens with the Bellelaire Brothers looping the loop and Morris Moon in The Wrong Bird. Fisher and Gilmore Elisabeth Cutty Snor and Westbrook Gordon and Gordon provide acts. The program features The Shooting of Dan McGrew, a screen drama based on Robert W. Service with Edmund Hreese, set among Yukon scenes and focusing on Maxwell, Ton, and Dan McGrew.
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Hoyal Theater
Bellelaire Brothers
Morris Moon
Fisher
Gilmore
Elisabeth Cutty
Snor
Westbrook
Gordon
Dan McGrew
the Royal
Great Northwest
Robert W. Service
Edmund Hreese
Jin Maxwell
Ton
McGrew
Low
Alaska
Maxwell
Mialamuie
Dan Methew
Booklet on Mexico by Educational Films Corp
A color booklet describes George D. Wrights Mexico Today series. It covers one reel films on Mexico’s scenic, architectural, and historic wonders and living conditions. Includes cover art of Mexican stories and Independence Monument.
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Educational Films Corporation
George D. Wrights
Mexico
Mexico City
Silver Country
Novelty on Broadway Gitz Rice’s wartime path to stage fame
Lieut Gitz Rice a Canadian actor composer soldier and singer rose from Montreal photo business to first Canadian contingent. He wrote trench songs in France including Keep Your tread Down Fritzie Boy and We Stopped Them on the Maine. He later toured with Getting Together in wartime London as a performer and composer.
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Gitz Rice
Gite Rice
Kilconrn Gordon
Mr. Gordon
New York Sun
Montreal
Tie
Cvtsical
Gitz Tier
England
Jrst
France
Channel
Fritzie
Maine
New York
Ypres
Tueo
Thiksian
Interruption by Englefield Startles Royal Audience in War Show
Englefield, a star in the 191s stage scene, recounts a dramatic interruption during a charity performance for wounded WWI servicemen at Buckingham Palace. She describes being mistaken for a suffragette and briefly escorted by plainclothes officers before King George and Queen Mary signaled to halt the pursuit, allowing the act to resume. The tale blends theater history with royal spectacle and wartime morale.
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Violet. Englefield
New York Sun
Miss Englefield
Bughind
Isurope
England
George
Queen Mary
Alfred Butt
Empire ‘Phenter
Joseph Coyne
Abel Levy
Robert Dae
Audiente
Mysel
Miss Haglefield
Bobbie Hate
Royalty Boom for Prolific Writers and New Color Film Invention
The Cleveland Leader notes vast future royalties for writers and reports Midmond Lysle signing over world rights to his color film invention to Color Projection Corporation. The firm, backed by Chicago offices and $1,000,000 capitalization, claims a process that renders natural colors without artificial methods. Demonstrations impressed observers with startling realism, predicting a industry revolution.
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Jate Clyde
Harry AB. Smith
Cleveland
Midmond Lysle
Color Projection Corporation
Fhe Colne Protection Corporation
Mem EL
Chicago
Owith
Sources of plots for photoplays from magazines to screen
Albert Parker notes that about 75 percent of successful photoplays originate as novels or magazine short stories. A single publisher may provide around 100 plot-bases annually, read by Pathé readers who sift over 300 stories monthly. From hundreds only a few pass to scenario writers and then to continuity writers before the director stages the film.
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Albert Parker
Sbouse
War Review Films feature Allied front and attacks
Official War Review No. 6 from Pathe dated July 20 showcases American post on the west front in Pragve and soldiers awaiting a German attack. Includes close up of General Voeh, allied commander in chief, British fights for democracy in Palestine, air raids in Italy, and about a dozen other subjects.
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West Front
Pragve
Pathe
Voeh
Palestine
Italy
Leon Errol Finds Low Comedy Fits His Career
Leon Errol explains his shift from Shakespeare to low comedy, tracing beginnings in Australia, early stage roles, and a long San Francisco to Broadway arc. He argues low comedy requires dead seriousness, avoiding vulgarity, and notes his aim to entertain without being obscene.
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Edwin Booth
Leon Errol
Mr. Errol
New York Sun
Errol
Australia
Sydney
Hamlet
Mer
Romeo
Richard
Hieronimo
Revenger
States
San Francisco
Garden
Seattle
San Diego
Kaw & Verlanger Cixl
Triangle Buys Stories and Film Rights
Triangle buys stories and film rights to magazines and novels and plans production. Dr Daniel Carson Goodman urges authors of successful screen plays to submit manuscripts to Triangle as high quality stories remain scarce.
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Ngle
Triangle Scenario Department
Daniel Carson Goodman
Plaxx
Triangle
Col Roosevelt to Appear in Pictures in War Charity Plan
Col Theodore Roosevelt will act in a series of motion pictures adapting his writings to raise funds for the Red Cross and other war charities. Frederick T. Collings, president of Clive Publications, holds cinema rights and says royalties will be donated to designated war charities. Roosevelt plans a limited production schedule with films drawn from Our God and Take Your Stand, The Flag on the Firing Line, and more, under a coordinated plan.
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Keadore Roosevelt
Wilde
Wester
Land of Kis Rough Riders
Oan
De‘troit News
Frederick T. Collings
Clive Publications
Red Cross
M Collins
Col. Jtoosevelt
Pii
Col. Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
American Red Cross
Acacyianes
Tomay
The Moor Below Ends In A Midnight Kiss Twist
In Albany, a film featuring Mabel Normani and Tom Moore sends audiences into a laugh with a lights out gag. Mabel, a bold imp, climbs walls and steals hearts as the couple kiss, while the audience wonders if the constant screen kiss has mirrored real life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mabel Normani
Mabel
Tom Moore
Tom
Albany Fyening Journal
Caruso to Star in Silent Film With Carolina White
Caruso, the great tenor, will make his first silent film appearance with Carolina White as leading lady. White, a Boston-born stage star, has opera and concert pedigree and notable acting. Paramount has secured Maggi Pepper as vehicle for Ethel Clayton while filming with Rose Stahl in a stage to screen transition.
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Caruso
Carolina White
Indy
Miss White
Boston
San Carlos Opera House
Naples
Chicago Opera Company
Minnie
Suzanne
Metropolitan Opera House
New York City
Edward Jose
Famous Players- Lasky Organization
Prolem
Cneete
Yhaggie Pepper
Maggie Pepper
Rose Stahl
Paramount
Ethel Claxton
New York
Miss Clayton
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Ibellclair Bros Bros
Arthur Moon CO
Elizabeth’ Catley, Musical
Lieut. Gitz Rive
P.M
Morris Moon & CO
Fisher & Gilmore
Swor & Westbrook
Gordon & Gordon
Bellclair Bros
Sts
FOX
Edmund Breeze
Dan M
Violet Englefield
Phil
Wey
Docia
Fidmond Lysle
Shakespeare
Mask
NELL _ SHIPMAN
Alfred Whitman
Frawlin Son
Herbert
Screen Productions
Helen Gibson
the Branded Man
Universal Western
Alma Rubens
Mutual War Weekly
Wm. Duncan of
Fighting Trail Fame
Fight For Millions
Marie Walcamp
Roscoe
Fatty) Arbuckle
Fatty
Allied War News
Peggy Hyland
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