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Newspaper
The Sunday Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1915
Page
14
An obscure reminiscence notes that before John Hay former secretary of state died he wrote a story. The fragment hints at a planned or later filmed adaptation of Hay's narrative.
Thomas Santschi will direct the photoplay of The Bloodselling for Selig Polyscope. H tale stars Santschi as the lead with Martin Warner as the leading lady and Leon Pierson plus Lafayette McKee in major roles. The drama, adapted from a Swedenborg influenced occult tale, will debut under the Diamond Special banner after popular demand.
Actress Lillian Drew of Esanay film company joins Joseph Byron Totten and his eastern company of Esganay players for special photo plays set along the Atlantic coast. She is expected to remain with the eastern company until its return to Chicago in the fall, playing leading character roles.
Hall's Musical Tabloid Company brings a Broadway Cabaret review to the Palace theater for Monday and Tuesday. The cast features Sam Carlton, Charles Martin, and Al Richie with Hall appearing in a dramatic role. The Cleveland Leader hails Hall's show as top class.
Helen saves the railroader detective and helps thwart Red Leary and his gang in Kalem’s Hazards of Helen episode The Limited’s Peril. The dramatic scene shows Helen and a convict tumbling down a raised drawbridge. The Limited’s Peril will soon appear in local theaters. Margaret Greene is cast as leading woman for Come on Charley produced by John Cort.
The Priscille theatre presents a program from General Film Company featuring a Broadway Star film and several multi reel titles. Fridays show Diamond from the Sky in chapters with the current installment named For the Sake of a False Friend. The Palace offers musical comedies with top headliners and entertaining specialty acts, drawing praise for refinement and good character in performances.
New play The Green Cloak a Owen Davis success is being filmed with Irene Fenwick as Ruth McAllister. A select cast includes Della Connor Blanche Aimee Roland Bottomley William Avker John Davidson Richie Ling Anna Reader Franchi Belcher and Katherine Brook. The dramatic subject offers Fenwick strong opportunities and the tale blends mystery with tense breathless moments.
Thomas A. Edison Inc announces it secured rights to William Hamilton Osborne's The Cat's Paw. Production moves ahead with Broadway cast for an Edison feature service release. The first Edison feature, Mrs Bieke in Vanity Fair, is set for September 8. William Boyd joins Ethel Barrymore in Roast Beef Medium based on Edna Ferber tales.
The Rob inson Grand hosts a high profile weekly lineup featuring notable stars and productions. Monday Elsie Fanis headlines a vivid showcase, while Wednesday brings two Paramount photo productions in a single double feature including Bootles Baby and The Man on the. Thursday showcases Betty Nansan and Rex Ingram’s Should a Mother Tell. Friday presents His Last Dollar and Saturday ends with Hypocrites.
Kalem turns the McKee Tonkin stage drama The Runaway Wife into a four act photoplay starring Stewart Baird as Eastman the artist. The story centers on a unscrupulous wife who drives a husband and wife apart and deceives him into thinking his spouse is dead. Eastman endures poverty while the truth surfaces and the wrongs are finally righted.
The article discusses Mexico's use of a harsh practice known as fugitive law, detailing its brutal methods. It explains prison releases under guard, unlocked doors, staged escapes, and hidden gunfire as a tactic that has claimed thousands of victims and remains a feared historical instrument.
Basapay film company expands program by adding three reel dramas each week starting September 1. The schedule replaces the one act drama with two free reel dramas, nine two reel dramas featuring G. M. Anderson, an animated cartoon, a scenic release, and a one reel western with Marguerite Clayton, totaling eleven reels weekly excluding Caplin comedies and the V. I. 3.E. feature.
Meredith Nicholson world famous author of The House of a Thousand Candles has written a two reel Selig special The Girl with the Red Feather. It opens the Selig regular program for the week beginning Monday August 23 as one of four act Broadway Favorites features.
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