Motion Picture Stars and Productions Highlight Majestic and Vitagraph
The Realm of Motion Pictures notes Willard Lewis in Shirts and Socks and Marshall Wilder in The Widow's Might. It mentions Miss Lilia Russell in The School for Scandal color production, and Willard Holcomb's work for Kinemacolor. Eustace Hale Alls sold eighty scripts to major companies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willard Lewis
Mr. Lewis
San Francisco
Marshall P. Wilder
Vitagraph
Marshall P.ceccies
Marshall
Mrs. Wilder
James Young
Motion Picture News Roundup of Industry Moves and Projects
The piece notes Mr. Ball as a Majestic contributor working on a two reel film for release soon. Robert Leonard joins 101 Bison Company after leading with Selig and comic work with Ferris Hartman Opera and Trixie Friganza. It highlights Universal Film Manufacturing Company’s LA mega studios and vast land holdings, plus a film exposing fake spirituality with Eva Ray and Fred W. Curtis. It covers Oedipus Rex by All-Star via Film Supply, with Mounet-Sully as Oedipus and strong set work, The Bells adaptation by Reliance with E. P. Sullivan and Gertrude Robinson, and a Mormon history film One Hundred Years of Mormonism praised by the church.
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Robert Leonard
Selig Company
Ferris Hartman Opera Company
Trixie Friganza
101 Bison Company
Los Angeles
Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Universal
el Providencia Rancho
San Fernando Valley
Universal Ranch
Griffith Park
Eva Ray
Fred W. Curtis
King of
Oedipus Rex
Film Supply Company of America
Oecaipus
M. Mounet-Sully
Comedie Francaise
Oedipus
Jocasta
Princess Theatre Reopens With Enhanced Lighting and New Ushers
The Princess Theatre formerly the Orpheum showcases over 1500 electric lights in lobby and facade, a redesigned interior and uniform ushers. A ladies' orchestra replaces mechanical music, and the feature "Palace of Flames" three reel production returns amid lavish set pieces and strong acting drawing large crowds.
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Princess Theater
The
Orpheum
Tony
Film makers chase distant subjects across the globe
Gas ton Melies and his company have arrived in Tahiti and will travel to New Zealand, Australia, Java, Siam and other distant lands, as they pursue subjects for their Pan American Motion Picture project.
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Gaston Melies
Tahiti
New Zealand
Australia
Java
Siam
Sapho and Cherokee Bill head Empire week program
The Empire offers a week of first run features with Sapho in three reels on Sunday and Cherokee Bill in eight reels for Monday and Tuesday. On Wednesday a two reel The Bells version stars Edward P Sullivan with Oscar C Appel directing. The program changes daily.
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Empire Theatre
Sapho
Atlas Company
Bill
Indian Territory
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Fort Smith
Sir Henry Irving
Reliance Company
Edward P. Sullivan
Mathis
Oscar C. Appel
Empire Management
Lawson Declares Best Bulldog Imported to America
Arnold Lawson son of Thomas W. Lawson arrives from six weeks in England with seven bulldogs, claiming Champion Centaur is the finest in the world. Locals dispute, noting many English bulls rival the imported champion from show circuit wins.
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Arnold Lawson
Thomas W. Lawson
Boston
England
Mr. Lawson
Wonderland Weekly Film Lineup and Local News Item
Wonderland announces a week of high class photoplays including Broncho Billys Ward and One of Them with a mix of comedies dramas and educational segments. The program features Beau Brummel Cinderella Slipper The Peril of the Dance Hall Minister's Temptation The Bird Bound to Occur and more with additional shorts and two reel offerings including The Lost Son. A local incident reports Mrs John Ricords from Gueda Springs waking to a dog at her door revealing her father ill in Wellington twenty five miles away.
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Wonderland
Cinderella
Kalem Players
Edison
Selig Players
Gibraltar
Augustus Carney
Biograph
Lochinvar
Mount Lowe
California
Lubin
Annie Rowley
John Ricords
Gueda Springs
Kane
John Keir
Wellington
The Redemption at Wigwam No. 2 Friday
A sociologist argues criminals are products of missed chances. In a park intervention Ellis steals, battles guilt, and hears a Salvation Army testimony, then returns the purse and seeks reform under Grey. Ellis later backslides, but the tale ends with the promise of a moral correction.
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Harrison Grey
Grey
Edward Graham
Graham
Red
Ellis
Mag Milford
Underworld
Salvation Army
Baby factory concept sparks Harvard talk at Metaphysical Club
Harvard philosopher Dr. Martin Kellogg Schermerhorn argued life is universal and that future chemists might create humans in baby factories, likening the idea to incubating chickens. Separately, a Buchanan charity fund in Lancaster, Pennsylvania uses about 3000 dollars yearly to aid the poor at Christmas.
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Boston
Martin Kellogg Schermerhorn
Department of Philosophy
Harvard
Schermerhorn
Metaphysical Club
United States
Lancaster
Buchanan
Wigwam Theater Week: Engravers, Crooks, and Musical Comedy
The Wigwam Theaters Nos. 1 and 2 announce a strong week headlined by The Engraver a Lubin crime story with a death within a gang of counterfeiters Also A Corner in Crooks a comic escape caper and Just Show People a dramatic spectacle Then Where the Mountains Meet Teaching Hickville to Sing and other Edison Kalem and Vitagraph titles Broncho Billy and the Sheriffs Kid highlights plus a Wellington NZ restaurant uses electric tables with push buttons to order in the dinem.
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Wigwam Theater
Lubin
John Taylor
Taylor
Vitagraph
Milo
Rosa
Essanay
Far West
Hickville
Dolly Featherheels
Hicksville
Dolly
Kalem
Edison
George Anderson
Bud Fisher to Feature at Wigwam Theater in Leeds
Bud Fisher creator of the Mutt and Jeff pictures appears as the leading feature in Patha's Weekly at Wigwam Theater No 2 on Monday. The city highway department of Leeds has recently treated part of a macadam roadway with granular calcium chloride to combat dust.
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Pathe
Matt
Jeff
Bud Fisher
King of Cartoonists
The
Underworld
Mutt and Jeff
Wigwam Theater No
Highway Department
City of
Leeds
Eet
Talking pictures near in sync with motion dreams
A New York private exhibition showcased four reels of synchronized film with sound, pairing Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland and Faust. The phonograph, monitored by a boot indicator, kept film speed and audio in lockstep, signaling a breakthrough in bringing dialogue to the screen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Dreamland
A Seventy-Two Year View On Life By Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith once mused on life’s portions noting that at age seventy two an hour a day equals three years. He imagined a life spent twenty seven years sleeping nine years dressing nine years walking nine years at table six years with children nine years walking drawing visiting six years shopping and three years quarreling.
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Sydney Smith
New York's 25 Million Aqueduct Near Half Completed
New York reports the $25,000,000 aqueduct project is more than half finished. Officials say progress marks a major milestone in the public works program and promise timely completion. Engineers and city leaders emphasize the system will improve water supply and resilience.
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New York
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Song Educational
Ial Event Film Company
Texas
Arizona
Europe
Willard Holcomb
Washington Post
Kinemacolor
Comany
Eustace Haleall
Sture
Mr. Ball
Jim
Majestic
Majestic Films
Henry Irving
Mathias
E. P. Sullivan
Gertrude Robinson
le Voix
James Ashley
Mormon Church
Princess Theatre
San Antonio
Photo Play
Seautiful
Palace OF Flames
Itala Pro
Trixie
Selig
Fred Burns
Polly
the Lost Son
America
Arnold W. Lawson
Mazda
San Antonio Gas & Electric Co
Baby Factory Possible
Royal Tea & Coffee Co
Main Avenue
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