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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1921
Page
6
Today’s programs feature a mix of lectures concerts and community events. Highlights include a morning speaker at the city hall cultural center an afternoon recital at the library and a evening film screening at the community theater with volunteer-led workshops between sessions.
William DeWilde production centers on Julian who marries his friend Osborns wife in a tense love triangle. Margaret Meredith awakens to a grave wrong as the plot unfolds with moral conflict and passion.
Jack Craigen, returning from Africa after a major project, finds his spirit broken and falls for a society girl. He proposes under pressure but learns she has staged talent. A harsh rival uses caveman tactics to dismiss her, while Craigen’s pursuit of love unfolds at the Clemmer Theatre.
New York city sets the scene in Hold Your Horses a Goldwyn photoplay. Tom Moore rises from street life after a hospital stay and returns to find work and leadership opportunities with a blasting gang and fate guiding his rise.
Dorothy Gish leaves her husband to begin a solo career as a daredevil aviator called Flying Pat. She faces a perilous test, soars with Endicott and a skilled pilot, then crash lands after a wrong throttle. Patricia escapes danger as James Rennie, recently wed to Gish, appears opposite a rising young star.
Fox releases The Scuttlers stars William Farnum and Jackie Saunders at the Colonial. Filmed on harbor locations including Francisco harbor and Catalina island with a 250 foot ship set and a yacht. Farnum plays a detective in disguise seeking to expose a captain suspected of insurance fraud aboard a desert island bound voyage.
Mabel Normand appears as shopgirl Mayme Ladd in the Rex feature Happened to Rows. A forged geisha tale convinces the heroine she is a reincarnated Spanish dancer, leading to romance and dreamlike schemes observed onscreen.
Veteran actor Hobart Bosworth traces film’s rise and excess from easy money to a sober retrenchment. He discusses early neglect of craft, the Sea Wolf breakthrough, the era of damaged goods, vulgarity, star salaries, and the current reconstruction urging better art and business discipline.
Welsh actor Gareth Hughes, after 22 birthdays, broadens his repertoire with an on screen 90 year old in Sentimental Tommy for Paramount. He began portraying elderly figures at 14 with Cadwalader Jones, 85, in The Joneses at Strand London, later Lord Mount Severn in East Lynne, Brabants in Othello, and Shylock at 17.
Dorothy Dalton returns to the West Coast to star in a Paramount George Mel ford special adapted from Sir Gilbert Parker’s The Money Master. James Kirkwood is cast in the lead male role with a notable ensemble. Dalton previously found success with Paramount during the Thomas H Ince era and starred in The Flame of the Yukon Flare-Up Sal Viva La France and Quicksand.
Ralph Ince has completed his Lincoln prototype film The Highest Law in which he portrays the Great Emancipator. The photoplay will be released nationwide to coincide with Lincoln's birthday celebrations.
The Greatest Love featuring Vera Gordon was shown to inmates at Sing Sing and will be screened by Lewia J. Selznick in every penal institution with photo play facilities.
Fox star Tom Mix once served as town marshal of Dewey Oklahoma and later as a federal enforcement officer with authority to search trains for concealed liquor He recalls his first train search yielded five cases of whisky and one gin bottle in the dry state era
Seena Owen stars in The Woman God Changed filmed for Cosmopolitan by Robert Vignola. The Bahamas setting brings a simple placid life with many tropical scenes, bicycle transport due to no cars, and limited shopping with mainly Panama hats and cocoa.
Vitagraph star Catherine Calvert left New York for Quebec to enjoy the annual winter carnival activities. She favors tobogganing and plans a ten day visit during the festivities, after recently completing a Vitagraph special directed by Tom Terriaa.
Elinor Fair stars opposite Earle Williams in Vitagraph's Loot of the Night directed by Frederick J. Jackson. Cast also includes William McCall Alfred Aldridge Jack Carlisle and Jack Matheia with further players announced.
Nita Naldi, a Winter Garden beauty, is betrothed to vamp Owen Moore in Selznick Pictures production A Divorce of Convenience. Robert Pillis directs the Fort Lee New Jersey film, bringing the project to life at Fort Lee studios.
The Saturday Evening Post story by Alice Duer Miller is photodramatized by George Loane Tucker, producer of The Miracle Man, and will debut at a New York Broadway theatre in late February or early March. The Miracle Man has earned over $2,000,000 in profit. Tucker has just recovered from a major operation and finished editing after three months at home in Los Angeles.
Rupert Hughes has spent weeks on the Goldwyn lot aiding production of Dangerous Curve Ahead. He is also writing the continuity for The Old Nest to be Reginald Barker's next film, keeping himself busy between tasks.
A fire at Fox Hollywood studio last week destroyed a large set built for While the Devil Laughs. The scene depicted New York City’s lower East Side. Only a small portion of the set was saved with losses around 15000 dollars.
Martha Mansfield works on a photoplay and prepares her Selznick debut. Her next screen appearance will be in Society Snobs with Conway Tearle as her leading man.
A column on acting chances for new players, studio applications, and luck in getting roles. It lists actor details and current projects including Boote Nagel and Ruth Holmes in The Firing Line, Reginald Denny at Realart, Gareth Hughes at Whitman Bennett in Yonkers, and profiles of Mary Pickford, Mae Murray, and Agnes Ayres with physical descriptions and career notes.
Frank Lloyd, Goldwyn director, planned to film a Venice pier fire. During a hot blaze eight miles from Culver City he and two cameramen captured dramatic frames. He returned with about 1000 feet of excellent footage for Gouverneur Morris' A Tale of Two Worlds.
The Liberty opening weekend show includes the triple funeral of slain policemen, construction of a 0 foot smokestack at the King street station heating plant, and the start of work on the Young Men's Hebrew Association.
Claire Windsor, star of Lois Weber productions, left for a motor tour of missions in Southern California while awaiting the start of Lois Weber's next production.
Gloria Swanson and Diana Allen are listed as American born with Swedish parentage along with several Scandinavian stars like Anna Q Nilsson and Ann Forest. The period notes Glorias new projects include The Great Moment scenario by Elinor Glyn for Swanson, Dorothy Dickson to star in Paying the Piper, Arbuckle’s Brewster’s Millions, Midsummer Madness at the Strand, and The Three Musketeers film in Europe.
Douglas Fairbanks is under a physician care at his home after a stunt fall. Doctors say he fractured bones in a finger, injured his back, and twisted his neck, with recovery expected to take a month or more. He slipped from a window as his foot caught during the leap.
Lois Weber, America's only woman producer of moving pictures, arranges with Paramount for the New York presentation of What Do Men Want Strangers and Whats Wi While. She leaves Los Angeles this week to attend premieres of her photoplay.
A $500 reward is offered in Los Angeles by Williami for the arrest of the thief who broke into the home of Johnson, star of chapter plays. Johnson and Miss Johnson report furs valued in the thousands were taken along with a prize time mond ring.
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