Big Universal film segment at Strand Theater set in Buffalo Bill era
Readers learn how films and stage productions recreate the Lincoln era. Joel Day as Lincoln spends hours daily on makeup and acting to capture likeness while Puke Lee and Joseph Hazleton bring authentic costuming and historical detail from the wild west show and impeachment era. Hazelton shares his rare personal connection to Lincoln events.
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Universal
Buffalo Bill
Strand Theatre
Abraham Lincoln
Joel Day
Day
Ionesa
Lincoln
Puke Lee
Buf
Falo BU
Europe
Joseph Hazleton
Gideon Wells
Navy
United States Senate
Andrew Johnson
John Wilkes Booth
Hazelton
William Moran
Dream Street Christmas Everfature Picture
Dream Street is the latest Griffith screen effort blending romance and laughter with good and evil influences. The tale draws on Thomas Burke works Gina of Chinatown and The Sign of the Lamp, set in Limehouse with shifting character tensions.
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JD. W. Griffith
Griffith
Thomas Burke
Gina
Chinatgo
Ana
Limehouse
Dream Street and Its Dramatic World on Stage and Screen
A vivid appreciation outlines Griffith directed scenes and a Trinity of young leads Gypsy Fair Spike McFadden and Ellie in a romance of good and evil. The piece features a street preacher and a street fiddler as moral guides while Sway Wan is portrayed by Ward Piel. Mary Pickford is praised for her Italian character, with Doug Fairbanks delivering spectacular action and a flood sequence shot in a newly built reservoir setting.
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Mr. Griffith
Gypsy Fair
Spike” McFadden
Bille
Carl Dempster
Spike” Metadden
Ralph Graves
Ellie
Charles
Emmet Mack
Tyrone Power
Fiddler
Morgan Wallace
W. Ferguson
Gypsy
Sway Wan
Fadward Piel
Strand Theatre
Smady
Doug Fairbanks to stage New Year Eve flood epic at Strand
The Strand theatre will screen Doug Fairbanks latest California studio production on December 31. The film features a dramatic flood destroying a midwestern city, built with meticulous realism in a two mile square foothills site along the Cascade range in northern California. Over one million gallons of water were pumped from the Sacramento river for authentic effect, with 100 carpenters and laborers supervised by Robert Fairbanks.
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Doug
Fairbanks
Strand Theatre
California
Hollywood
Cal
United States
Cascade Mountains
Robert Fairbanks
Sacramento River
Mary Pickford's The Love Light to Play at Local Theatre
Mary Pickford's latest production The Love Light will be the Christmas feature at the local theatre. Written and directed by Frances Marion, the film marks a new dramatic direction for Pickford amid plans shaped during her honeymoon in Italy.
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Mary Pickford
Frances Marion
Miss Pickford
Italy
Adriatic
Europe
California
Fourteenth Lover at Strand Theatre reveals romance
The Strand presents Vi Marchmont played by Viola Dana in The Fourteenth Lover a photoplay about a young woman who pursues love beyond society. Vi endures attrition from family and society as she seeks a gardener as her one true match.
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Viola Dana
Strand Theatre
Vi Marchmont
Miss Dana
Muarchmont
The Sin Flood at Strand next Thursday
Thursday Show presents The Sin Flood a photoplay with a genuine idea. The plot centers on a man facing quarrelers in a threatening situation and a resulting brotherhood. The film suggests spiritual clash dissolves fleshly struggles.
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Strand Theatre
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Douglas Fairbanks
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