Edison Director Critiques Stage Versus Screen In New York
Director Richard Ridgley of Edison Studio defends cinema against claims it ruins theater while noting audience prices and access. He cites his own experiences in New York and discusses audience reactions to a drab revival and the broader impact of photodrama on stage. Ridgley, known for The Magic Skin and The Destroying Angel, is working on The Ladder of Ambition.
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Richard Ridgeley
Edison
Leine- Edison
Phillip Strong
New York
Ridgley
Kleine-Edison
Pickford Stays With Famous Players Film Company
Mary Pickford ignores record offers totaling millions and signs a new year long arrangement with Famous Players Film Company. She will retain a half interest in future feature productions with Adolph Zukor, and all images released through Paramount Pictures continue to back her career.
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Mia Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford
Famous Players Film Company
Fist Feature
Paramount Pictures Corporation
Misa Pickford
Adolph Zukor
Famous Players-Merv Pickford Company
Miss Pickford
Paramount
Famous Players
Fifteen Thousand Costumes For Kellermann Film In Jamaica
The Annette Kellermann production now filming in Kingston Jamaica features fifteen thousand costumes produced under Mrs Irene Lee head of William Fox costume department with twelve hundred local seamstresses working six weeks. Mabel Trunnelle and Robert Conness lead five act drama about false ambition. James K Hackett and Viola Allen receive strong Boston welcome for Macbeth season before New York engagement.
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Annette Kellermann
William Fox
Kingston
Jamaica
Wmder
Herbert Brenon
Irene Lee
Mabel Trunnelle
Robert Conness
James K. Hackett
Viola Allen
Boston
New York
Potel Cast In New Screamer in Hired, Tired and Tied
Universal comedian Victor Potel is cast in Hired, Tired and Tied performing a strong man act in this one reel Joker. The segment showcases Potel in a vivid, energetic comic routine reflecting his propanalties and boon stalk humor.
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Jack
Plano Moving
Victor Potel
Universal
Wives of the Right: Hemtron's New Seelig Feature
Producer T. M. Hemtron has begun work on a Seelig multiple reel feature titled The Wives of the Right. It follows a young woman's romance with gambling and the subsequent wreck of her life. Ty Meatayor and Grace Darmand star, with strong supporting cast and production.
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T. M . Hemtron Hes
Rawlinson Plays Crook for First Time in The Scales of Thatice
Herbert Rawlinson Universal star departs from heroic roles to portray Slim Donegan a methodical crook in The Scales of Thatice an underworld three reel drama from James Dayton. He notes a shift after his Sanford Quest criminologist serial role and says this new part offers fresh challenge.
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Herbert Rawlinson
Universal
Worthington Company
Slim Donegan
Thatice
James Dayton
Rawlinson
Yin
Sanford Queat
Balboa Plans New Photoplay Series By Jack Lait
Balboa Producing Company engages Jack Lait a leading American dramatist to develop a new photoplay series. IH M Horkheimer Balboa president and GM secured the project in Chicago. Lait famed for Help Wanted and will write his first screen piece. Balboa to feature top Minnesota actors.
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Jack Lait
Balboa
Chicago
IH. M. Horkheimer
Balboa Company
Lait
Pdr
Trays
Mlmdomn
Palace Opens Musical Comedy Season With Honeymoon Girls
The Palace theater starts its musical comedy season on Monday with B M Garfield's Honeymoon Girls as the opening act. The company of eighteen delivers new songs and lively vaudeville, promising a hit run all week with daily matinees. The program also features One Performance Only and Hazel's Two Husbands and What Became of Them. Senior admission prices apply.
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Nile
B. M. Carfield
Honeymoon Girls
Mus
Real Comedy
Palace Theater
Hjtx
Jone
Samo Polley
Muateal Comsdy
Mtorgoem
Vitagraph
George Ado
Hazel
Miss Lawrence Returns to Film Thelma star plans comeback
Florence Lawrence announces intention to return to screen work with Universal Film Manufacturing Company after two years away. She traveled Europe visiting England France Germany Russia Norway Sweden Denmark Egypt India and parts of Asia before settling near Westwood New Jersey to manage her estate. She accepted a contract from her former employer and will appear in a screen adaptation of Marie Corelli's novel Thelma.
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Florence Lawrence
Miss Lawrence
Universal-Victor
Europe
England
France
Germany
Russia
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
Egypt
India
Went ‘Wood
N. J
Ross Gardens
Laommle
Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Abe
Marie Corelli
Thelma
Farnum Stars in Dig Feature Set in Kentucky Mountains
William Fox studio reports actor William Farnum leads a dig feature with Dorothy Bernard and a strong cast. Filmed at Edendale California, the story places scenes in Kentucky mountains and a western mining camp. Oscar C. Apfel directs.
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William Fox Pacific
Edendale
Cal
William Farnum
Dorothy Bernard
Mr. Farnum
Kentucky
Oscar C. Apfe
Beak oning Flame Feature Uses Big Menagerie
The Beck oning Flame at Inceville uses a large stage menagerie for Triangle-Key Bee feature. Henry Woodrum and Tsuru Aoki co star as the principal cast while a crowd of animals including five camels four elephants and ten zebras participate on set.
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Inceville
Henry Woodrum
Tsuru Aoki
Hasanay actors praise exacting demands of Mary Page project
Henry 3B Walthall and Edna Mayo, starring in Hasanay's fifteen episode series The Strange Cage of Mary Page, say the photoplay is the most exacting work they have endured as Hasanay pushes the thirty footer to completion with actors working all day and night.
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Henry
Walthall
Edna Mayo
Hasanay
Mary Page
Mary Boland Debuts In The Edge Of The Abyss
Mary Boland appears for the first time in the American direct feature The Edge of the Abyss, a five part Ince-triangle project. Co starring with Charlen Bartlett, Willard Mack, and William Roswell, the work showcases her art in a frenzied stage to screen transition once praised by John Drew's public.
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Mary Boland
Charlen Barlett
Willard
Mack
Frank Milla
Mr. Tace
Triangle
Censorship Debate Prompts Film Board Controversy
A historic speech argues against film censorship and praises free expression as a cornerstone of democracy. It criticizes boards composing of untrained members, urging inclusive education and informed judgment for cinema governance.
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Odeon Theatre
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Thomas McCracken
Flemington
Potel Well
CROOK
Underworld
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Balboa Producing Company
Palace
Fox Film
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Staten
Republic
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Gantry
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D. W. Giffith Fine Arts CO
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Berna Owen
Viola Dana
Edward Barges
Ruth
Keystone
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Keystone Company
Polly Moran
Ty Nm
Supreme
Syd Chaplin
Keystone Players
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Turday
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