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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1915
Page
13
Bert Hubbard asserts motion pictures educate and uplift society and compares them to books as truthful and worthy entertainment. He praises cinema as Jeffersonian in simplicity, saying it reveals the world, banishes ignorance, and offers value without vice as audiences grow toward better films.
Francis X. Bushman, former Easaway star and popular motion picture player, is now a permanent star on the Metro program. The announcement is expected to excite his thousands of admirers nationwide.
Photoplay magazine recaps Chaplin's early years describing his father Charles Chapin a vaudeville singer and his mother Lillie Harley a character song performer. The excerpts note poverty after his father's death, an early stage debut around age five, and Syd and Charlie’s time sent to a poorhouse in England with Chaplin recalling secrecy about wealth and fantasizing as a rich person.
In Photoplay, Helen Holmes is depicted as a fearless star with railway themed adventures. Alan Burden visits California to uncover how she shoots trains and crews while not owning a continent spanning railroad but renting equipment from major lines amid sparse local traffic.
Senator Clark built the Salt Lake road needing terminal facilities in Los Angeles. He absorbed a Pasadena Los Angeles San Pedro line and a Los Angeles Glendale line to secure franchises. Helen uses actors who double as railroad men for train crew roles and dispatch work trains. Regular Salt Lake crews operate the trains when not used for performances.
Towa Giri will represent the state in Universal Film beauty contest in San Francisco after leaving Chicago Sunday. Miss Madge Henry of Sioux City, named state’s most beautiful girl, joins fifty contestants for a two week coast stay as Universal company protegés. Van Loan of New York City, in charge of the special train from Kansas City, met Des Moines officials. The leading contestant on the train is to be offered a permanent job with Universal at seventy dollars weekly.
Eugene Palette is portrayed as the leading man in a film studio production, starting as a suave figure before being cast into an animal picture. The scene includes a leopard attack and a dramatic whale blood sequence, highlighting the chaotic shift in the story.
In Photoplay Magazine Captain Peacock warns freelance scenario writers that while many firms favor adaptations, original story plots will rise as audiences tire of long features. Short one to three reel formats are expected to dominate as exhibitors seek fresh material.
Charles Ellis, president of Yonkers Motorcycle Club and winner of a 402 mile race to Boston in 15 hours 10 minutes, sets a world speed record and joins the Starlight company at Yonkers to appear on the Tinted program with Heinie and Lowe Glames Aubrey Walter Kendir and Miss Vols Trown. The Evening Courier is read in nearly every Waterloo home.
Manager Kenberg of The Safestie! promotes a five act program with a feature picture for tomorrow. The bill includes Hum bry Rush and Robinson with new acts, a music store scene, and songs by Mr Roeingon. Entertainment by Mr and Mrs Greevy, Brett and Ital, Hank Johnson and Dixie Grape, Bertie Ford, and a notable motion picture Are We Ready. Naval parade footage, portraits of Wilson and Navy officials are shown. Sunday features Lillian Gish Captain Macklin and Charlie Chaplin in a two reel comedy and Captain Macklin a four part war drama set around Non duran with a love theme. Plaza screens The Spanish Jade dramatized by Louis Joseph Vane. Grand offers In the Blood with Lois Davis and Love and Pies by Aubrey and Ken dig.
A humorous weekly page mocks film lore and celebrity culture of early cinema. It notes actor Tom Mix and Bolly cowboy Peter, mentions an incident in Los Angeles, and praises writer Gardiner Sullivan. The piece references old Tennessee style satire about weather prophets and theater life.
Hearst Selig News Pictorial photographer P L Jones dies aboard the Lusitania while photographing passengers in distress. Survivor T Jeffrey recalls Jones standing on the deck, camera in hand, as the liner sank and lifeboats deployed. An advertisement note about corset abuse and a Woods Millinery talk follows.
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