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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1921
Page
8
The $100000 George Kleine production Quo Vadis opens today at the Winter Garden theatre for a week. It is hailed as one of the greatest historical motion pictures. A key scene shows Christians fed to lions in the Coliseum of Rome.
Richard Barthelmess appears in Experience at the Strand theater with Marjorie Daw as Love. The Paramount film, already strong in the East, is hailed as one of the day’s best motion pictures.
Theodore Darman, foreman for the Continental Gold Dredging Co, fears his success harms his romance with Dora Wade, daughter of a farmer who resents dredging and its impact on the community. Lola Wilson plays Dora, while Teddy Darman and Lois Wilson portray the leads in this early era production.
Rumors swirl around the Hollywood couple the Reids as Dorothy Davenport Reid returns to screen work opposite Lester Cuneo in Behind the Mask from Doubleday at Warner Brothers. Mrs Reid dismisses divorce talk and defends family harmony amid scandal chatter.
New York reports from the Oliver Morosco studio in Los Angeles note Pat O Malley as a newspaper owner in Slippy McGee, Marion Davies as a spoilt heiress in Enchantment, Av ery Hopgood tackling scenario writing for Linger Longer Lety, and Charlotte Greenwood starring in Morosco pictures. Mary MacLaren recovering after appendectomy and appearing in The Three Musketeers. Max Linder promotes Be My Wife at Goldwyn. Herbert Rawlinson returns from Catalina to start Universal film work with Jack Conway directing.
From Berlin Thomas B. Walsh reports revival in motion picture business across England France Germany and Italy expected in September Walsh went abroad after completing his first independent production Shams of Society for FC Pictures to study conditions and source material
Allen Holubar refines adapting the script for his next photoplay in which Dorothy Phillips will be featured. He quietly selects the cast and surveys potential locations, traveling hundreds of miles to scout suitable mountain settings for the production.
Manager John Hamrick reports advance ticket sales for the three week run of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse at the Blue Mouse Theatre are already more than half sold. Seats are unreserved and the film cost 1 million dollars to produce with 12 600 actors and 14 directors and assistants.
A column notes Ralph Graves and Miriam Cooper in Kindred of the Dust with Walsh as a young director, mentions May Allison in Big Game, Peggy Hyland’s Hollywood marriage, Thomas Meighan’s age, and various film stars and trivia. It lists births, marriages, and roles across Vitagraph, Universal, and other studios, with several corrections to common misstatements about actors such as Marjorie Daw and Pola Negri.
After a three week lull the MacDonald studio shows renewed activity with artists building sets for The Infidel and The American Beauty returning from vacation. Scenes for the Logue photoplay call for battleship action and a Pacific fleet gathering off Los Angeles in September may supply real big gun scenes for the staged sham battles.
After the show the group planned a stop at Boldt's for a casual wrap up. The note reads as a brief social itinerary with no further context or dates.
A Strand event features gowns from MacDougall Southwick Co. and five models portraying Pleasure Wealth Temptation Love and Beauty as a prologue to the film Experience. The show runs each afternoon and twice each evening during the picture’s run.
The article notes Shirley Mason, though not singing, plays piano and mandolin beautifully. It records a childhood wish to be a hurdy gurdy grinder during her sixth year, highlighting a playful early interest.
Gaston Glass will appear opposite Viola Dana in her latest production titled Glass Houses. The two stars headline a dramatic film presenting a tense plot set in a home front environment.
Universal star Marie Prevost comments on male foibles noting no woman can know all about men. She argues marriage suffers when partners hide affairs and that both sexes can be catty yet unchangeable. She quips about men remaining enigmas to women.
Jackie Coogan's new picture has the title My Boy chosen from a list of more than a thousand options. The original story was written by Jack Coogan and director Victor Heerman, detailing the trials of a little orphan in New York City, with Jackie showcased in his many camera tricks and talents.
Monroe Salisbury begins a brief stage appearance in San Francisco before starting his second independent film production. The engagement marks a transitional moment for the actor as he shifts from film to stage and back in the Bay Area venue.
Rosemary Theby plays the calming yet wicked Queen Morgan le Fay in the Fox production. Eileen Percy stars in Hickville to Broadway, a tale blending staid village life with Broadway gaiety for Fox.
Harry Carey completes The Fox a desert set production at Universal City after a hot Mojave month. He wrote the story himself and the film was directed by Robert Thornby from Lucien Hubbard's continuity.
Former Seattle girl and film serial star Juanita Hansen signs to perform 14 weeks on the vaudeville circuit. She opens in Minneapolis tomorrow and will arrive in Seattle on October 10 for her single turn showing film stunt sequences that made her famous.
Arthur Kay conducts the Coliseum orchestra in Hedras the Oriental episode to be premiered at the 24th weekly concert tomorrow from 12:20 to 1:30. Mrs Michaelson will perform Liszt’s Concerto in A Flat Major as soloist. The 44 member orchestra will play The Dutchman overture Gavotte and Ma The Lady Picking Mulberries Ilietta and a selection from The Merry Widow.
Patrons vocally demand action as Irving G. Thalberg calls in Lucien Hubbard to draft additions with Doris S. and Mike Boylan, while the scenario editor oversees the improvised lines.
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