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Newspaper
The Sunday Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1916
Page
13
Oted Stars Again booked for the Orpheum program this coming week. Lovely, Fonda, Reed, and Webb lead a slate of plays including You’ll see Mia Gray in a masterwork, a Drama From Zagler, and a two act romance The Womans Masterpiece. A Mother's Confession stars Abramson’s drama with a special musical program nightly.
The Universal Film Company announces a new ten episode series The Pursuit of Patricia with Earth Roberts leading and directing the project. The magazine Snappy Storlen will offer $1000 in monthly installments for the best reader responses to what they would do in Patricia's circumstances.
Weight Kauffman and Ilveh Welr headline a Lubin drama about a young girl dodging a guard while a chosen suitor is dictated by law. The tale unfolds through daily newsroom antics, as a hustling reporter stirs a hornet’s nest amid dramatic developments and vaudeville sketches.
Burr OfoIntest, noted lecturer writer photographer actor and promoter, declares he will retire to private life. He says his countrymen do not want to be moved and expresses intent to produce motion pictures featuring a western and southern gentleman character.
Burton King named a Metro staff member and begins work on Hearts Aflame for Electro in a Producing role with Clifford Bruce Ja and Dorothy Green. He has a lifelong theater background and prior screen experience with Thomas H Ince and studios including Western Vitagraph Selle Polyscope Universal Equitable and Famous Players.
Clifford Bruce, a distinguished film star, has been engaged by Popular Plays and Players and will debut in Hearts Aflame, a five part Metro wonderplay. He is a valued addition to Metroators, respected for stage prowess and acting with Frohman stars like Maude Adams and Ithol Barrymore, continuing his success from stage to silent drama.
A proposed mega merger in New York unites Paramount, Mutual, Universal, V. S. 8, B, General, and Metro with Triangle, World, and Fox left outside. Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin are linked to new long term deals under tobacco magnate Benjamin Hampton, while the plan seeks efficiency, standardized schedules, and centralized distribution to reshape the film industry and curb oversupply and low quality productions.
Gertrude Robinson known for Classmates stars as the exiled princess in Graustark a lavish Biograph production adapting the Balkan tale Beverly of Graustark by George Barr McCutcheon. The project promises one of the company's most ambitious ventures following Judith of Bethulia and other early dramas.
Fashion notes describe tented nails as the season’s fad with Clara Kimball Young and Risa Youn spotlighting nail colors to match gold embroidery. Readers are advised the nail hues range from pale hive to crimson as they coordinate with gowns.
Frederick Palmer, famed war correspondent, argues in a Paramount pictograph series that the army is inadequately manned and equipped, stressing the grave need for preparations. Percy Haswell appears soon in Wa Clayset by Edgar Allan Wood.
A film week at the Buoy features Lillian Gish in Daphne and the Pirate with a cast including Dex Atted Hart Collins and others. The Triangle production promises broader comic displays and notable co performers as the program moves through Monday and Tuesday.
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