Motion Picture Drive Forms in West to Fight Censorship
Los Angeles reports a March 1 meeting unites major film groups across the Pacific Coast to defend the industry against blue laws and censorship. Plans include an endless letter campaign and a major film project illustrating censorship evils while urging a nationwide, coordinated public stance.
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Charles E. Hughes
Internations News Service Staff Corp Adeat
Los Angles
Mure
Pacific Coast
Los Angeles Athletic Club
William J. Taylor
Motion Picture Directors’ Association
Society of Illuminating Engineers
Screen Writers’ Guild of the Authors’ League
Motion Pictors Operators’ Union Western Motion Picture Advertisers
Protoplayers’ Equity Association
Los Angeles Film Exchange
Theatre Owuners’ Association
Los Angeles Theatre Association
Motion Picture Operators’ Union
Ethical Motion Picture Society of America
Girls’ Hollywood Studio Club
Actors’ Equity Association of Los Angeles
Motion Picture Directors’Associaion
Hollywood Post of the
American Legion
East
Motion Picture Theatre Owners
National Association of the Motion Picture Industry
Far West
Taylor
Anj
United
Colonial “Someone in the House” casts Edmund Laws in Elyria
Edmund Laws, noted for Oliver Morosco productions, is called from New York to California to play Jim Burke “The Dancer” in Metro’s mystery drama “Someone in the House” at the Colonial. The show, by Larry Frans, George Kaufman and Walter Percival, features a polished manners crook preying on society’s wealthy.
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Elyria
Jim Burke
Metro
Edmund Laws
Oliver Morosco
New York
California
Larry Frans
George 8. Kaufman
Walter Percival
Mr. Lowe
Lowe
West Coast
Morocco Theater
Los Angeles
Maude Fulton
Strand Film The Coat Faces Campus Rejection
Elyria reports the Strand theatre film The Cost a Gra ham Phillips adaptation about college life. Director Harley Knoles sought a New Jersey college campus for scenes but the headmaster refused allowing the Coast company and about thirty five actresses to shoot on site.
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Elyria
Strand Theatre
David Graham Phillips
Harley Knoles
New Jersey
Mr. Knoles
Hosiery Revival With Pantalette Garters Reappears
The update features three-quarter length stockings with pantalette garters creating a grandmotherly pantalette effect. Simple and attractive for windy days, the style gains attention as Mr. Knoles sought a new location to showcase it.
The Greater Claim at American Theater
Audiences at the American theater praised The Greater Claim starring Alice Lake. The film adapts Isola Forrester Mann Page’s story and follows Mary Smith, a Follies beauty who marries Chuck Gerard, a wealthy youth, as plot twists unfold with a surprising kidnapping by Chuck’s father.
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American Theatre
Alice Lake
Isola Forrester-Mann
Mary Smith
Chuck
Gerard
The Honeymoon at Sea and Family Turmoil in a Dramatic Scene
A melodramatic plot follows a wife pushed into cabaret life after a strained honeymoon, aided by poverty driven graft, as she rebels against her father in law and crooks. Amid motherly love and reconciliation the film builds to a climactic finale in Bridgeport.
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Mary
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