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Newspaper

The Mobile Item

Location

Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Feb 20, 1916

Page

19

Pallas Pictures Completes Film of David Garrick

A telegram from Pallas Pictures Studios announces the complete production of David Garrick starring Dustin Farnum. The film, long contemplated by rivals, marks a major screen revival of the classic first staged in 1864 with B. A. Sothern and later starring his son E. H. Sothern. The production is finished and ready for release on the Paramount program.

Pallas Pictures Los Angeles David Garrick B. A. Sothern England New York Dustin Farnum Sothern Booth Theatre New York City George C. Boniface Kelly & Leon

Gaumont stars and stage tales mingle with zoo news

Miss Marguerite Courtot and Miss Helen Marten head a list of Gaumont film figures and theater performers, with notes on Marguerite Courtot in tennis and Iva Shepard in The Drifter. Also mentions Japanese Sloth Bear at Seliz Zoo hibernating for winter drawing visitor interest.

Marguerite Courtot Helen Marten Mildred Gregory Howard Hall Lucille Taft Alexander Gaden Gaumont Iva Shepard Adventuress The Drifter Harry Palmer Gaumont Stock Company Jacksonville Fla Robert Clugston Pathe and Universial James Levering Henry John Reinhard Seliz Zoo

Marin Sais and Studio News in Early Film History

Marin Sais from Kalem a daughter of old California Spanish families. Rosinante returned to cavort in a new film. Fannie Ward rehabbing after auto tire explosion. Orrin Johnson stars as D artagnan in The Three Musketeers. A seven passenger car fell off a forty foot cliff in Hazards of Helen. Valli Valli appeared before King Edward. Paramount acquires Burton Holmes travel pictures. Constance Crawley related to Earl Kitchener. Vivian Marshall pages in Vitagraph. Mae Murray lost in sand dunes during To Have and to Hold. director Melford frightened by the incident.

Fannie Ward Lasky Studios Orrin Johnson D’artagnan Alexandre Dumas Three Musketeers Kings Queens Cardinals Helen Kalem Mae Murray Lasky Company George Melford

New Departures in Novel Keystone Comedy With A Movie Star

Mack Sennett abandons Keystone tradition for a travesty caper set in a theatre lobby. The plot centers on Mack Swain as he is cajoled to speak and flirt with admirers while his wife drags him away. A Western drama within a film provides burlesque and laughs.

Keystone Mack Sennett Mack Swain Sénnetti

Lillo of the Sulu Seas and Silent Shorts at the Auditorium

Three part flying A drama Lillo of the Sulu Seas stars Harold Lockwood and May Allison with Ralph Holt and Lillo. A one act beauty comedy Won by One with Neva Gerber accompanies. Helen Holmes headlines The Girl and the Game in a new two act chapter of a railroad film novel each Friday for 5 cents.

Neva Gerber Helen Holmes

The Peril of the Rails thrills at Kalems feature

Photoplay notes describe a dramatic sequence in The Peril of the Rails where two trains race toward collision. Helen Gibson calms the danger to avert disaster by inches, aided by a suspended crew and daring camera work.

Helen Gibson Kalems Helen Limited

Anna Held Appears With Daughter In Madame La Presidente

Anna Held and her daughter Lianne Carrera appear together for the first time in the Morosco Paramount photoplay Madame La Presidente. Carrera, a vaudeville star, joins Held at the Los Angeles studios to film alongside the renowned actress. Max the private chef also appears as the water in the production.

Anna Held Lianne Carrera Theatre-Goig Morosco- Paramount Los Angeles Oliver Morosco France Max Miss Held Paree

Colin Campbell backs idea box for story plots

Colin Campbell, dean of Selig producers, reads Popular Mechanics on an idea box with six rolling word plates for nouns verbs adjectives etc. He plans to attach a device to his camera crank to generate a new scenario while taking pictures.

Colin Campbell Selig Popular Mechanics Campbell Mr. Campbell

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Marin Sais Stingaree California Marin County San Francisco Marin Rosinante de Wolf Hopper Valli Valli Metro King Edward Paramount Pictures Company Burton Holmes Travel Pictures Constance Crawley Arthur Maude Company of American Mutual Players Earl Kitchener Great Britain Vivian Marshall Vitagraph Queen Theatre J. T. Spieth Mutual Movies South Sea Islands Harold Lockwood May Allison Anna Idea Box Theatre News Paramount and Paramount Play Strange Case of Mary Page V.L S. E Henry Walthall Edna Mayo the Empire Geraldine Farrar George Behan In “the Alien Bray’s Charlie Chaplin the Rounders Joseph Kilgour Hany Prercy Naomi Chi Kalem Railroad Paramount Florence Rockwell Forest Stanley E. P. Poe the Cheat Henry Walthal Strange Case Paramount Day Carlyle Blackwell the Puppet Crown Henry B. Walthall Love Bey Atsle Blanche Sweet Capital Mary Pickford Fanchon Mary Mobile aDassein Om Children Crown Theatre Triangle Keystone Triangle Film Corporation Joe Weber Lew Fields Fred Mace ST Nee “Neerer Douglas Fairbanks and Gladys Brockwell Herbert Quick Admission Bo Southern Metro Pictures Corporation Edmund Breese Sutterfi William Fox Robert Mantell and Genevieve Hamper Equitable Motion Pictures Corporation Dainty Muriel Ostriche Slightful Charwin Ang She 25 World Film Corporation Holbrook Blinn Fania Marinoff McTeague Frank Norris Margaret Thompson Willard Mack Lasky-Paramount Stan
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