Empire Offers Fine Program Of Film Stars At The Empire
San Antonio fans will see Pauline Frederick Douglas Fairbanks and Louise Glaum in three feature films this week at the Empire. The lineup includes Her Better Self, The Matrimaniac, Love or Justice plus newsreels and comedies. Frederick stars in a society drama about a rich daughter who courts a charity doctor amid poverty, with strong supporting cast.
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Film Gossip and Stage Notes Highlight Purchases and Shows
Two tons of silver film stock are used weekly for movies. Margaret Anglin announces Emerson Houghs The Broken Gate Hulbert Footners Getters and Givers a comedy The Pot o Shamrock and a Greek tragedy or two to be produced in New York with Walter Damroschs orchestra.
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Popular Patriotic Songs Stir Audiences Last Week
Last week's popular songs included Rhode Island Is Recruiting So Stand Fast Uncle Sam and On the Banks of Dear Old Salt Lake There My Utah Girl Resides highlighting patriotic and sentimental themes.
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Alan Dale Reemerges to Critique Drama in Hearst Journal
After years out of the public eye, Alan Dale returns to offer comic criticism of the drama for a Hearst New York newspaper. His columns promise sharp wit and renewed public visibility.
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New York Architect Announces 32 Cinema Theaters Planned
Thomas W. Lamb, a New York architect, says he has commissions for 32 new cinema theaters nationwide. The project represents an $11,000,000 investment and coincides with Senate interest in 10 cent movies and no war tax on them.
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Laurette Taylor to Stay in New York for Manners Plays
Miss Laurette Taylor announces she will remain in New York for a full season next year to perform the plays of J Hartley Manners. Her second year there begins in September.
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War Playlet For Country Provokes Vaudeville Outcry
The war playlet For Country, staged by Miss Louise ter, was deemed too wicked for vaudeville audiences as it portrays a young woman sacrificing herself to shield soldiers from disaster. It has since been rewritten by the composer of the play Kisses.
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University of Chicago students film battle scene for Essanay film
About three hundred University of Chicago students took part in Bryant Washburn's Essanay feature Filling His Own Shoes. Students split evenly into Turkish soldiers and Bulgarians and fought with football like ferocity, creating a realistic battle scene.
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Bessie Love Begins Second Triangle-Iace Play
Under Charles Miller's direction Bessie Love starts her second Triangle-Iace stage production. The story by J. G. Hawks features Love as a poor Irish orphan who endures romantic misadventures before gaining her own fortune.
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Film Star Shelled Peas For A Living
Photoplay Magazine quotes House Peters saying he has shelled more peas than any actor. He recounts working on a Fremantle to Sydney voyage, a bush exit from Hong Kong, and a varied life from sheep stations to Boer War service where he was wounded.
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Shaved Seven Times in Wrath of Love
Irving Cummings and Virginia Pearson film Wrath of Love had an early call at the studio. A bathroom set scene of him shaving was retaken seven times before the director called it a wrap at noon.
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Toupee clue stirs Balboa actor marriage mix up
A Balboa film regular recalls a toupee reveal about Ruth Lackaye and Wilton Lackaye last night. Ruth explains she never married Wilton, only his brother, noting the difference was obvious because her husband did not wear a toupee.
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Will Aid Enlistments in Uncle Sam Afloat and Ashore
William N. Selig receives praise for the General Film production Uncle Sam Afloat and Ashore. The two reel work portrays life in the Army and Navy to promote enlistments, described as highly instructive and entertaining and among the greatest aids to recruitment.
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Evelyn Nesbit and Son Star in Redemption at George M. Cohan Theater
Evelyn Nesbit and five-year-old Russell Thaw headline the new film Redemption at the George M. Cohan Theater in New York. The picture is praised as one of the season’s finest and may stay a season, not two weeks, as planned. Nesbit, with no prior screen experience, delivers a powerful performance aided by personal experiences that deepen her portrayal. The film will soon be distributed nationwide as a major feature.
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Pageant of King Corn and Queen Alfalfa Teaches Soil Health
In Farm and Fireside Robert H. Moulton highlights a Kaneville Illinois pageant by Rev and Mrs C J Hewitt that dramatizes alfalfa and alfalfa’s soil benefits. Pupils performed the piece, drawing requests to reproduce it elsewhere as a teaching device.
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Actor James L. Crane, son of Rev. Dr. Frank Crane
James L. Crane, famed for his role in The Pawn alongside Mr. Keenan, is identified as the son of the Rev. Dr. Frank Crane, formerly of Chicago.
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Love or Justice? Louise Glaum Stars in New Play
Louise Glaum headlines the stage in a new production titled Love or Justice. The notorious "peacock woman" figure appears as a sharp girl gangster who climbs the underworld ladder reaching an incense-perfumed apartment filled with silks and jewels.
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The Lady of the House and The Celtic Attendant
A fragmentary dialogue excerpt features lines about keeping eyes in a cool place and a speaker promising to attend to tasks at once. The playful tone resembles stage or parlour humor with archaic speech and stylized names.
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