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Newspaper

San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Sep 30, 1917

Page

32

Majestic Bill Promises Two Vaudeville Headliners

Two headlining attractions open the Majestic Theater week with a matinée and two night performances. The Past-House and A Demi-Tasse Revue feature Isabel le D Armand and Darrell with a cast including Imhoff Cons Coreene and Taabelie DiArmond. The program includes Hawaiian dance and a dog act, with a weekly news segment and varied acts in a lively vaudeville showcase.

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Inlarious comedy features and Hawaii revue stars

A garbled review notes Imhoff Conn and Corgens in a new inlarious comedy titled The Peat une Jaabelly D Armond in A aah Tasse Revue. It mentions Latimer seeking reconciliation with a protegé, a denouement in act four at Mrs. Ramses house in Pelham, leaving Latimer hopeful yet unsettled.

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How Fox Chooses Plot in His Cinema Empire

William Fox, head of Fox Film, is described in American Magazine as a tireless, busy studio chief who sketches plots under barber chair theatrics, then tests them in a private brain process. He selects scenarios by what lingers in his half-sleep brain, favoring ideas that survive mental rehearsal hours before. The piece also notes Olga Petrova forming her own company and recruiting Baron Dewit as art-connoisseur-regisseur for Petrova Pictures.

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Chinatown Telephone Exchange in San Francisco Detail

A photographic feature explores San Francisco Chinatown’s unique Chinese telephone exchange run by Loo Gum Shu. Six operators manage eleven hundred subscribers, mastering names instead of numbers, while wearing traditional and modern attire amid a busy, mixed English and Chinese operating room backdrop.

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Pity the Poor Lions in Henry Lehrman Film

A silent comedy by Henry Lehrman shows ten to twelve performers in a lion cage during production. The set was chaotic as lions clawed and bites occurred. Pthel the chief lion lost a tooth, Lucille was cut on the flank, and Jean injured a leg, while no actor sustained serious harm.

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In the Bishop's Carriage Opens Week at Grand

The Grand Opera House launches a weeklong show of Miriam Michelson's novel adaptation In the Bishop's Carriage by Channing Pollock. Nance Olden, a young thief with a good heart, robs a broker and is drawn into a web with a criminologist, Latimer, and Dorgan as the plot advances through desire, gratitude, and risk of reform.

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Douglas Allen Dwan Engages Allan Dwan on Productions

Douglas Talrbanke announces engagement of Allan Dwan for stage operations of his productions. Dwan, famed for Famous Players and films like Manhattan Madness and The Gad Bad Man, joins as head director for Triangle Eastern. Doan resigns immediately, plans to move to California at once to begin work on October 3.

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