Grand Robinson Grand Week Promises Big Film Lineup
The Robinson Grand unveils a strong week with Paramounts A Gentleman of Leisure featuring Wallace Edinger on Monday and a Chaplin return The Tramp at patrons request. Tuesday brings The Shooting of Dan McGrew with Edmund Breese and a New York backed Alaska set. Wednesday showcases Rule 62 a railroad play with star studded cast and Thursday presents The Celebrated Scandal starring Betty Nansen Fox.
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Robinson Grand
Paramount
Wallace Edinger
Hindson Theater
New York City
Baldpate
Charles Chaplin
Metro
Ils
Dan McGrew
Robert W. Service
Edmund Breese
Breese
New York
Ahitaba
Canada
Paramount Pictures
Betty Nansen
Fox
Miss Nansen
Fox Corporation
Bijou and Odeon Bow Big Studio Show Power
Five act photoplay The Vendetta heads Bijou lineup with Marie Corelli tie in, plus Broadway star In the Days of Famine and With Bridges Burned. Odeon hosts American Minstrel Maids with Daisy acts and French dances, led by Alice Lemont and Marie Jenaro. Lubin drama In the Dark also screens.
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George Kleine
Marie Corelli
Bill James Morrison
George Cooper
Dorothy Kelly
Donald Hall
Edison
Felix Holt
Bijou
Vita— Grap. Lubin, Selig
Essanar, Inc
Ade
George Ade
Island of Regeneration
Valley of Lost Hope
V-L-S-E
Odeon Theater
Alice Lemont
Marie Jenaro
Nell Defoe
Dottie Wright
Pippin
Lucille McCoy
Venus
Ruth Wright
Mabel Frank
Rosetta Brice
Esthel Clayton
Fire scene in Goddess serial uses Brooklyn factory workers
In chapter seven of The Goddess Vital graph serial, nearly a thousand actors participate in a dramatic fire scene staged in one of Brooklyn’s largest factories. Producer Ralph Wince directs as workers flee the burning building in a weekly release.
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Ralph Wince
Brooklyn
Cliff Watson and Company to Appear at Palace Theater
Cliff Watson and his Peerless Maids headline a refined family show at the Palace Theater this week. The Hoosier Boy opens with a star cast including Bolus and Bolus, the Blech sisters, Andrews and Thompson, Reynolds and Lewis. Watson cites nine reasons for success, detailing top costumes, skilled performers, clean vaudeville, and complete, high standard bills.
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Palace Theater
Cliff Watson
Lather
Bolus
Andrews and Thompson
Reynolds and Lewis
Watson
Real Veaudeville
Biograph Star Popular Here
Al E Christie and his Nestor comedians completed filming in Hi Egrption Affinity with Lee Moran Eddie Lyons and Victoria Forde. The picture centers on a re incarnation of two old sweethearts and the Palace will book only top companies, keeping a clean policy. Local audiences praised The Peerless Maids and the management’s adherence to moderation.
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al E. Christie
Nestor
Lee Moran
Eddie Lyons
Victoris Forde
Ham's Trousers Near End in Raskey's Road Show
Sorrow weighs on Lloyd Hamilton as the worn trousers in Ham comedies show severe wear across each production. Raskey's Road Show nearly ends their run when one leg tears from ankle to hip during a scene. Universal presents The White Terror, a sensational exposé of cures fakirs, urging adults to view and learn a powerful lesson.
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Lloyd
V. Hamilton
Hamilton
Ham
Raskey
America
Universal
Harlan Joens Selig signs for Selig Red Seal plays
Otis Harlan has signed to appear in Selig Red Seal productions and will depart New York soon for Chicago to take the lead in the Selig Chicago stock company succeeding Harry Mestayer. John Drew denies retirement rumor after Charles Frohman’s death and is to star in two new plays.
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Otis Harlan
Selig
New York City
Chicago
Harry Mestayer
Selig Chicago Stock Company
Mr. Mestayer
Pacific Coast
John Drew
Charles Frohman
Drew
Big Python Stuns in Lubin Studio Drama Under the Fiddler's Elm
A twenty foot python trained to steal at its owner’s direction is a standout feature in the two reel drama Under the Fiddler's Elm by Harry Chandlee, shot at the Lubin studio. The snake, owned by a Philadelphia collector, works as the unseen thief until it bites the owner in the hand, sending him to hospital. Edgar Jones and Justina Huff lead the cast.
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Harry Chandlee
Lubin
Philadelphia
Edgar Jones
Justina Huff
Pathe colorizes one reel drama Man to Man for June release
Pathe in France colors a one reel drama Man to Man by Balboa and plans release the week of June 14. William N. Selig, president of Selig Polyscope, has purchased two elephants from the John Robinson shows for distribution and display.
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Pathe
Balboa
France
Beem
William N. Selig
The
Selig Polyscope Company
John Robinson
Hearts in Exile at the Orpheum Feature
The Shubert film masterpiece Hearts in Exile stars Clara Kimball Young as Hope the Russian noblewoman. The five reel drama, set in Siberia and northern Russia, follows her through danger and marriage choices involving wealth and sorrow in a compelling screen portrayal.
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Clara Kimball’ Young
John Oxenham
Hope
Clara Kimball Youns
Siberia
Russia
Colonial Mansion Shipped from Maryland to California
An old colonial mansion used in filming The Diamond from the Sky was shipped from Maryland to Santa Barbara, cut into 378 pieces and reassembled on site. Each piece was numbered to ease reconstruction, with the elephant acts referenced as part of the production at the Selig Jungle Zoo.
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Maryland
California
Santa Barbara
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Biograph
Chas
Cureasus
Harlan Joens Selig
Orpheum
Selig Jungle Zoo
Alice Hollister
Anna Nilsson
Harry Millarde
Vitagraph-Lubin-Selig-Essanay, Inc
Clarksburg
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