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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1917
Page
23
Col in Campbell states the motion picture industry has advanced greatly in production and acting. He credits directors for shaping modern screen art and notes they control locations sets and actor movements. He stresses the director bears the ultimate responsibility for a film’s success and quality.
The article discusses stage stars like Laurette Taylor Maude Adams and Sir Herbert Tree commenting on the lure of cinema money vanity and international drama. It notes Faversham and Shaw productions plan for New York as Hippodrome and Palace theaters prepare fall slots and vaudeville shifts amid Ziegfeld Dillingham plans and new touring sets.
Ann Pennington actively recruits a company of Boy Scouts driven by inspiration from the Youngsters who rallied and supported her in The Little Boy Scout. The unit is troop 100 of the New York division of the Boy Scouts of America.
The Boston National Grand Opera company wowed audiences with bold new orchestration for So Long Letty. Composer Earl Carroll reshaped the score featuring three banjos three marimbaphone a cello two bassoons two flutes clarinets two cornets one bones and drums alongside the house orchestra. Hollywood studio expansion underway with Bes sie Barriscale J Warren Kerrigan in pictures James Young directs with Emmet Flynn assisting.
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