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Newspaper

Seattle Star

Location

Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Date

Oct 18, 1919

Page

12

Liberty Lottery Mystery Ensnarls Cast in New Paramount Thing

The article previews a film titled Man aimed at Liberty Lottery, with Harry Farne and Wallace Reid in key roles. Reid plays a man who treats marriage as a wager and may become the prize itself, as an eccentric gunman threatens to upend the plot with a winning number and strange propinquity.

Pate Reid George Walsh Mission Wallace Reid Liberty Klcene Clemmar Jack Pickford Strand Anita Stewart Colonial Dorothy Dalton the Coliseum Dorothy Phillips Rex the Plunderer Little

Notable Yale Harvard clash captured on campus film

The fragmentary article describes a campus scene with Yale and Harvard participants in a game or rivalry photographed on campus. It mentions Jane McAlpine, John Leotio, William Hayes, daredevil George S reke, Amita King, Corinne Grant, Mollie McConnell, and Enid Wells as figures in a campus event.

Jane McAlpine Steeeeese John Leotio William Hayes George S Yale Harvard Colis Amita King Corinne Grant Mollie McConnell

The Jealous Suspicion Opens Today

Colonial E. K. Lincoln and his wife are drawn into a plot as a plane and rumored lovers spark distrust. The film unveils a wider network of intrigues affecting the couple and their friends, opening today at the cinema.

E. K. Lincoln

Seattle Show Opens With Local Cast

A Seattle production titled Little Moment begins a run featuring local players including A Robertson Jack Martel Frances and Bill Far in a short run. The show opens Sunday with a few local people present.

A. Robertson Jack Martel Frances Bill Far

Paid in Advance at the Rex opens with Curwood drama

James Oliver Curwood's Paid in Advance debuts at the Rex. The Yukon Klondike setting follows gold rush days in Dawson City with Dorothy Phillips as Joan Gray, trapper's daughter drawn to wealth.

James Oliver Curwood Rex Canadian Northwest

Strand Presents In Wrong A Rural Comedy Starring Jack Pickford

Jack Pickford appears as John nie Spivens a country youth accused of robbing the village bank. A thrilling horseback chase follows as he eludes a posse. The cast features a country sweetheart a city siren a village simpleton and a banker. Tonight ends Back Stage Fatty Arbuckle comedy.

Jack Pickford Strand Johnnie Spivens Jack Fatty Arbuckle

Goldwyn Studios Expands With In-House Furniture Factory

Nine acting companies at Goldwyn studios Culver City now produce photoplays. A new accessory innovation is a complete in-house furniture factory able to supply furniture or fittings on short notice.

Goldwyn Studios Culver City Cal Goldwyn Institution

Silent Era Productions Name Names in Busy Studio Pact Talk

A string of Hollywood movements reveals borrowers and hires across studios. Helen Ferguson heads to Ithaca to star opposite Jack Norwood in a serial, Myrtle Stedman shifts to Rex Beach production The Silver Horde, and Jack Pillon leaves Fox for Scott Dunlap on The Little Prayer for Rain. Major Warwick’s next film The Tree of Knowledge is planned at Lasky, with Dowlan directing and Grandin casting a Castilian maid in a Spain-tinged segment at Universal City. Lloyd Hughes, 19, moves from Bisbee to Culver City for a lead in Americanem vs Bolsheviam, produced by Ince, while Wray Ackil’s vehicle The Breath of the Dragon follows.

Jack Pillon Jack Pickford Fox Studios Scott Dunlap Albert Ray Elinor Fair Dillon Ia Lloyd Hughes Los Angeles Bisbee Ariz Polytechnic School Thomas H. Ince Culver City

Goldwyn Says They May Build Theaters to Protect Interests

Samuel Goldwyn of Goldwyn Pictures Corp states producers seek exclusive representation in cities by partnering with exhibitors, even buying theaters. He adds they will not build or acquire theaters by choice, only from necessity to protect the public and themselves.

Samuel Goldwyn Goldwyn Pictures Corporation

Tiny girl wins contest as Mary Pickford successor

Blanche McGarity a 16 year old from Texas stood 4 feet 11 inches tall and weighed 101 pounds. She competed against nearly 100000 girls from the United States and Canada and won among 25 finalists judged by Mary Pickford Thomas Ince Cecil B De Mille James Montgomery Flagg and others.

Tiny Girl Mary Pickford Tiny Blanche McGarity Texas Blanche United States Canada Thomas Ince Cecil de Mille James Montgomery Fleer Howard Chandler Christy

Finding Twin Babies No Easy Job for Him

Dorothy Phillips stars in The Right to Happiness with a dual role as twin girls grown up. Director Holubar faced brain storming over finding a brace of identical twins. After searching Southern California, a suitable pair was found and persuaded to appear.

Dorothy Phillips Holubar California Miss Phillips

Silent Film News Buoys Stars in Global Serial Work

Eddie Polo works on The Thirteenth Hour in Europe while Marie Walcamp finishes Tempest Cody Westerns and sails to the Orient for a new serial The Petals of Lao-Tzo. Dad's Girl is set for screen adaptation at Fort Lee studios with over 10 000 stage performances. Henry Walthall prepares The Kentucky Colonel from Opie Reed. Marguerite Clark finishes All of a Sudden Peggy. Lila Lee stars with Wallace Reid in Hawthorne of the U S A from the stage.

Eddie Polo France British Isles Marie Walcamp Tempest Cody Orient Seattle Lila Lee Wallace Reid Hawthorne

Clever Fatty Arbuckle Outwits Friend Over Dime

Juvenile Fatty Arbuckle recalls a childhood tale claiming he was clever at age ten when a friend argued over a dime. He notes the rival coin had a hole while his did not, prompting him to take the holeless dime to his favorite ice cream parlor.

Fatty Arbuckle Arbuckle Fatty

Finding a New York Apartment Turns Up Empty

Doris Kenyon tasked her location director to secure a New York apartment. He reported he could locate spaces fit for anything from a Turkish palace to a fisherman's cabin, but could not find a vacant New York dwelling.

Doris Kenyon New York To & Mquarter

Director Erich von Stroheim Defends Original Title

Erich von Stroheim, author director and star of Blind Husbands, criticizes Universal president Carl Laemmie for changing his film title from The Pinnacle without author consent. He bought space in trade journals to publish an open letter noting the rename may aid sales but has made the author and cast ill.

Erich von Stroheim Carl Laemmie Universal

World and Its Woman star Lou Tellegen in California

Lou Tellegen, lead with Geraldine Farrar, comments on hunting in Asia and Brazil, saying California deer laws offer no protection to him. He boasts of enduring jungle trials and compares them to South American expeditions, returning to camp a blank in the face of local game.

Lou Tellegen Geraldine Farrar California

Train wreck doesn’t stop picture making

Film units faced disaster when a wreck between Los Angeles and San Francisco nearly halted Clara Kimball Young’s production The Eyes of Youth. Actors crawled from debris, reset kits, and shot select scenes to salvage the film and save costs.

Los Angeles San

Lynch Writes Olive Thomas Play for Selznick Pictures

Myron Selznick has purchased an original screenplay titled The Magdalene of Mudville by John Lynch and Edmund Goulding. Lynch, a leading scenario writer, previously created The Market of Souls, a major hit, and was brought to the coast to write exclusively for Selznick, including a staged train wreck with realistic atmosphere.

Myron Selznick Selznick Pictures John Lynch Edmund Goulding Mudville Olive Thomas Lynch Selznick

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FROGRAMS Dalton in “The —_ Caprice Sceerge, Walsh Stewart Wre Buaaneewee Anita Agpinet Perem Clemmer Pathe Coliseum Enid Wells Momance Wwattersteiner Old Maid Wally Reid Sheriff's Posse Anita King Goldwyn Suep Factory Donald Chap Bryant Washburn Famous Players Lasky Helen Ferguson Vitagraph Ithaca N. Y Jack Norwood Myrtle Stedman David Powell Rex Beach Harry Caney Southern Robert Warwick Capt. Dieppe Lasky Studios Tree of Knowledge William C. de Mille Michel Grandin Soule William C. Dowlan Spain Universal City Twalr Ackil Sensue Hayakawa Blanche McGarity Henry Walthall Opie Reed Marguerite Clark Peggy Cess The Pathe News Wallace On Sousa Drdia Arthur Freed Oliver G. Wallace Fatty Arbuetle Taylor Holmes
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