William A Brady Shifts From Stage to Film Producing
World Film Corporation announces William A Brady will devote his producing genius to feature motion pictures. He will focus on screen direction with stars like Robert Warwick Alice Brady Frances Nelson. His first production The Ballet Girl stars Alice Brady Holbrook Blinn. Brady says the motion picture industry now holds dignity equal to other great enterprises.
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World Film Corporation
William A. Brady
Robert Warwick
Alice Brady
Frances Nelson
World Film
Equitable Film Corporation
Brady
Gaumont Company in America Manager Oversees Jacksonville Studio
During F. G. Bradford's visit to the winter studios in Jacksonville Florida C M White general manager assistant oversees the main Flushing New York plant and directs activities while arranging details for upcoming large building operations of the Gaumont Company.
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F. G. Bradford
Gaumont Company
America
Jacksonville
Fla
Flushing
N. Y
C. M. White
White
Family feud in Kentucky town over missing a shiny finial
In a small Kentucky town a boy sobs at the gate over being denied a trip to a minstrel show. Mrs. Beals observes the scene as the distressed child asks why his family never takes him out when he cries.
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Kentucky
Edna Mayo Proves Daring Star of The Strange Case of Mary Page
Edna Mayo, co star with Henry Walthall in the Essanay serial The Strange Case of Mary Page, is praised for willingness to perform daring stunts. Directors say she will hop trains, fall from horses, or dive from ships. A Lake Michigan shoot nearly cost her dignity when asked to blow bubbles underwater.
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Edna Mayo
Henry Walthall
Mary Page
Miss Mayo
Lake Michigan
Miss Maya
Griffith to direct Macbeth with Tree supervision
The article notes Pho toplay Magazine lacking advance information but speculates Mr Griffith could produce a monumental Macbeth. It reports Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, newly in the Fine Arts studios, planned to stage Macbeth with Griffith overseeing.
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Griffith
Macbeth
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
London
Fine Arts Studios
Kalem's Stingaree Stars Draw Screen Fashion Notes
Ollie Kirkby and Marin Sais prepare for The Love Pirates while Gladys Coburn stars in The Black Crook Kalem adaptation. Ethel Teare may head a new company for Ham and Bun, and Olive West joins Sis Hopkins comedies with Rose Melville. Helen of the Hazards gains the title The Girl With Nine Lives.
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Gladys Coburn
Miss Coburn
Black Crook
Kalem
Ethel Teare
Ollie Kirkby
Marin Sais
Los Angeles
Helen of the Hazards
Olive West
Comedienne
Mrs. Wiggs
Rebecca
Sunnybrook Farm
Miss West
Sis Hopkins
Rose Melville
Milwaukee Adds Scenic Milwaukee to See America First
The Gaumont split reel features Mutual Traveler showcasing Milwaukee’s harbor with Great Lakes freight facilities Water Street parks and the Soldiers Home plus the new courthouse. Marguerite Clark stars in Mice and Men portraying a 1847 era heroine in a playful regalia-free role.
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Milwaukee
Mutual
Gaumont
America
Great Lakes
Water Street
Marguerite Clark
The
Battle Cry of Peace film warned as national danger
An extensive feature on The Battle Cry of Peace produced by J. Stuart Blackton and starring Charles Richman argues the United States must ready its army and navy. It warns of a hypothetical attack on New York, critiques coast defenses and naval limits, and urges preparedness as essential self defense. The piece ties the drama to patriotism and calls for vigilance against foreign aggression.
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Charles Richman
Norma Talmadge
James Morrison
Mary Maurice
Vitagraph
Mobile
Capitol
New York
J. Stuart Blackton
Vitagraph Company of America
Hudson Maxim
America
Atlantic
Europe
Snow Valley
Lincoln
Peace
New Ys
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Ham
Empire Theatre News
Paramount and
Paramount
Dustin Farnum
Call OF the Cumberlands
Zancasy
Charlie Chaplin
Jonnie
Chaplin
Lubin
Roberts
Rk Twain
Pudd
Head Wilson
Mary ‘Pickford
Empire
South
Wilson
John Harrison
Virginia Vandergriff
Inve Hudson
Invento American
L. Leonard Wood
U.S.A
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