Iowa Troops Featured In War Film “Iowa Under Fire”
The film showcases Iowa soldiers in World War II including the Forty second Rainbow division and the 168th infantry. Photographers and the signal corps documented their campaigns from training near Lunéville to major battles. Local military leaders and American Legion officers praise the film for its tribute to service members and families. It opens today at the Liste theater.
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Signal Corps
Sacuio
Iowa
Luneville
Iowa Department of the American Lezion
Suild
Liste
Des Meines
United States Signal Corps
168Th Infantry
Lowa
Arson as Art in Filmmaking: Foebound Thrills At Plaza
Willem de Mille, veteran director, stages a dramatic fire scene for Paramount’s Foebound with Lois Wilson and Pochard Dix. A barn with hay loft is burned under careful timing and camera work, delivering one of the era’s biggest thrills. Teebound arrives at the Plaza theatre Thursday.
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Willem de Mille
Zoed
Paramount
Plaza Theatre
Enid Bennett and Ramon Novarro in The Red Lilly
Hollywood July 6. Fred Niblo directs a melancholy drama of love and fate with Enid Bennett as Marise and Ramon Novarro as Jean. The Red Lilly traces a mayor's son and a cobbler's daughter from Brittany romance to Paris despair ending in a doomed reunion and a bleak marriage.
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Enid Bennett and
Ramon Novarro
Red Lilly
Hollywood
Fred Niblo
Goldwyn-Metro-Mayer
Bsettle
a_i cobbier
Brittany
Paris
Lilly
Nee
Scarlet
Ionid Bennett
Muavise
Navarro
Major D W Griffith signs with Famous Players Lasky
Historic move as D W Griffith joins Famous Players Lasky after returning from Germany where he is filming Pawn. The article lists upcoming projects and signings including Barbara Denny debut, Doris Kenyon in First National, and many stars set for new Universal and Educational Pictures productions.
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D. W. Griffith
Famous Players-Lasky Company
Griffith
Famous Players
Germany
United Artists
For Sale shines with a cosmopolitan cast at Princess theater
A First National feature opens today at the Princess theater with Claire Windger Adolphe Menjou and Robert Elis in a drama of modern society. The film follows a daughter forced toward matrimony to save her father with a rich supporting lineup including Mary Carr Vera Reynolds and John Patrick.
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Princess Theater
Four Corners of the Earth
Claire Windger
Sahara
Adolphe Menjou
Chaplin
Paris
Robert Elis
New York
Mary Carr
Flirting With Love A Colleen Moore Conway Tearle Film
The photoplay completed at First National studio under the title Temperament will be released as Flirting With Love. Colleen Moore and Conway Tearle star in the production reflecting early talkie era style.
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Conway Tearle
Colleen Moore
Miss Moore
Tearle
Henry Miller
Alice Terry
First National
Movie Attendance Slumps as Prices, 1900s Compare
New York reports a sharp drop in daily movie attendance from 20 million in 1915 to about 5 million now. Industry sources blame high admission prices for crowd decline, urging price cuts to restore mass appeal and reach the remaining 10 million lower-income earners.
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Fordy
Hollywood Scandal Promoters Target Film Figures
A mid 20th century critique argues that gossip mongers and scandal promoters prey on Hollywood film people. Paracites, led by gossip, aim to attach their names to celebrities, spurring sensational lawsuits and tarnishing reputations of Wally Reid Arbuckle Normand Fickford Fairbanks Lloyd Chaplin and others.
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Hollywood
Cal
America
Motion Picture Studios
Globe
Conrad Nagel
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Nagel
Sir Galahad
Paracites
New York
Arbuckle
Mabel Normand
Mary Fickford
Douglas Fairbanks
Harold Lloyd
Charlie Chaplin
Stars of Filmdom Leave Hollywood
Hollywood is seeing a mass exodus of film celebrities. Blanche Sweet sails to Europe and Helene Chadwick remains in New York until fall. Marshall Neilan and Thomas Meighan with Estelle Taylor head to Alaska for location work.'
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Hollywood
Blanche Sweet
Europe
Helene Chadwick
New York
Marshall Neilan
Thomas Meighan
Estelle Taylor
Alaska
Conway Tearle
Chicago
Frank Lloyd
Sylvia Breamer
Australia
Directors to Produce 18 Films This Year in Directors Venture
Eighteen motion pictures to be made next year will feature the directors as sole producers, marking a new ad venture in the movie field. Sixteen productions cost about 100000 dollars each and two specials 200000 dollars each. Officers include Phil Losen Roy S. Clements George Sargent Joseph de Grasse and Paul Powell with financial backers Wallace Worsley Frank Korzage Irving Cummings Rowland V. Lee William Seiter James Young Paul Seardon John S. Robertson Harry Beaumont and Kenneth Webb. Production starts within a fortnight.
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Motion Picture Directors’ Association
Phil Losen
Roy S. Clements
George Sargent
Joseph de Grasse
Paul Powell
Wallace Worsley
Frank Korzage
Irving Cummings
Rowland V. Lee
William Seiter
James Young
Paul Seardon
John S. Robertson
Harry Beaumont
Kenneth Webb
Ladies to Board comedy at Garden Theater today
Tom Mix stars in Ladies to Board at Garden theater with Jack Blystone directing and William Dudley Pelley writing. The plot centers on Mix managing an old ladies' home while Pee Wee Holmes and Tony the horse create comic chaos in a nearly finished skyscraper. Cast includes Gertrude Olmsted Phil McCullough Gertrude Claire Fay Holderness and Dolores Rousse.
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Tom Mix
Garden Theater
Jack Blystone
Mix
William Dudley Pelley
Pee Wee Holmes
Tony
Wonder Horse
Tom
Gertrude Olmsted
Phil McCullough
Gertrude Claire
Fay Holderness
Dolores Rousse
Santley and Sawyer Impress Vaudeville From East Reports
Joseph Santley and Ivy Sawyer of the Music Box Revue have drawn strong notices from the eastern circuit, signaling their rising prominence in vaudeville.
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Joseph Santley
Ivy Sawyer
Music Box
East
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