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Newspaper
The Sunday Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1916
Page
19
Director Richard Ridgeley defends photodrama against claims it ruins theater while recounting a New York theater visit. He argues producers blame films for poor plays and notes audience prices and access impact. Ridgeley, behind two Klein-Edison features, voices informed restraint about stage and screen.
Mary Pickford refuses record offers and remains with Famous Players Film Company. She will star in a new Famous Players Mary Pickford unit with half ownership, while all pictures continue to be released by Paramount. Her decision solidifies her ties to the studio and its Paramount distribution.
The William Fox project in Kingston Jamaica uses fifteen thousand cestumes directed by Herbert Brenon. Irene Lee oversees the costume department with twelve hundred sewing women working six weeks to craft outfits for a five act drama featuring Mabel Trunnelle and Robert Conness. The production, based on false ambition, promises strong situations. James K. Hackett and Viola Allen receive a warm Boston welcome as they begin their Shakespearean run in Macbeth and plan New York appearances after.
Universal star Herbert Rawlinson takes a new turn in his film career playing Slim Donegan, a crook, in The Scales of Justice a three reel underworld drama by James Dayton. He notes the change from hunting criminals to being hunted and cites study from his Sanford Quest days.
The speaker notes that knowledge gained at that time significantly aids in performing the role of Slim Donegan. This reflects how prior learning enhances current portrayal and effectiveness in the part.
Jack Lait, famed dramatist author of Help Wanted, is contracted by Balboa to create a new photoplay series. In Chicago, Balboa chief Horkheim er sealed the deal with Lait to produce the project, promising to employ top film stars for the portrayal.
The large circus menagerie was used in Inceville for The Beck oning Flame. Henry Woodruff and Tsuru Aoki co-star as matinee idol and renowned Japanese actress. Five camels, four elephants and ten zebras were among the animals employed.
William Farnum leads a strong cast including Dorothy Bernard in a new feature set in the Kentucky mountains and a western mining camp. Oscar Apt directs the production for William Fox Pacific Coast, Edendale.
The Palace theater begins its musical comedy season Monday featuring DM Cafield’s Honeymoon Girls, an eighteen member company praised for new acts and strong song numbers. The show includes Hello Cupid Love’s Sweet Song and Parisian Piping with daily matinees through the week, plus a program Wednesday and Friday. The company aims to draw Indica and children audiences alongside a featured opening play and a Vitagraph film.
Florence Lawrees plans a return to photo plays after years abroad. She toured Europe for rest and travel, then managed her estate in New Jersey while awaiting acting work. President Laemmle urged her back, and she signs a new contract to star in a screen adaptation of Marie Corelli’s Thelpa.
Henry B. Walthall and Edna Mayo star in Wasana a fifteen episode serial titled The Strain Cage of Mary Page they praise the work as the most exacting in photoplays production continues with Bakanay driving rapid completion actors work long hours daily into the night across the project.
Mary Boland appears on screen for the first time in The Edge of the Abyss, a five part Inco-Triangle American direct feature. Co stars include John Drew and Charlotte Burton. The film, created by Charles Carlolt and Willard Mack, is described as a notable artistic work.
President and GM of Balboa Amusement Producing Company urges preservation of free expression under the U S Constitution while condemning local censorship efforts. He argues licensed oversight should curb harmful material without stifling democracy and notes dangers of self appointed censor boards in cities and states.
Producer J N Heffron begins work on a Selig feature titled The Wives of the Few. The story follows a young woman whose taste for gambling games threatens her happiness, with Farry Mestayer and Grace Darmond in supporting roles.
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