Theda Bara Portrayed as Lustrous Vampire Screen Icon
New York art circles hail Theda Bara as a stunning model and vamped figure famed across the nation. The Parisian beauty, soon to star in William Fox productions, is described as a ruthless siren in La Giaconda with a pantherish lure, while illustrators like James Montgomery Flagg capture her in striking vampire poses.
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Emerson Hough to Write Serial for Universal Picture
Emerson Hough announced to write the serial story The Broken Coin for Universal. The Waterloo author, famed for Heart's Desire Curley Willy Lou and Singing Ice, has written The Mississippi Bubble sold over a million copies. He predicts The Broken Coin will be one of his most thrilling works yet.
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Motion Picture Fee an Error Springfield May 22
Representative Thomas Curran asserts a draft censorship bill misstates fees. He says the intended parity with the Senate bill sets $1 for the first 1000 feet and $1 for each additional block, not a per foot charge after the first thousand. The debate centers on moving picture examination costs and film lengths.
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Thomas Curran
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Things Theatrical Here At Home At Majestic And Grand
Local program notes list prominent acts at the Majestic and Grand theaters including Andra Lewis and Peten Norton in In Those Days and the Jaunts and Journeys film series. Comedy and musical numbers headline with Fred and May Waddell, Dany and Dean, and Heinle and Louie, plus a melodrama plot about June Holly in Alone in New York and a lumber town romance.
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Peten Norton
Miss Norton
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May Waddell
Dany and
Dean
Waterloo
Marr and
Hrans
J. A. .Welson
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Heinle
Loule
James Aubrey
Walter Kendig
Heinie
Louie
Mittenthal Film Co
New York
Mittenthal Brothers
Desperate Lover’s Flight and Kind Farmer’s Daughter
A grieving girl, abandoned by her lover Alan, leaves home at night to find him. He is away on a business trip for months. Exhausted, she collapses at a farmer’s doorstep and the kindly farmer’s wife shelters her. June gives birth and plans to return to her family.
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Missouri
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David Stone
June
Bud Aptograph
Alan Powell
St. Louis
Alan
David
Ute
Gil
Palaces Tonight at Plaza Show Ends Run
Elsie Janis, lively in She Gaphees of Kitty, thrills Plaza audiences with vim and personality as the last screenings of the film continue. A recent feature also showcased a hero’s dramatic purgical operation, highlighting a reel cut-up.
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Kitty
The Maza and Graustark at City Theaters This Week
The coming week features The Maza in The Morus of Marcus at The Palace with shows Sunday through Thursday, plus performances by Grace Washburn and others. Crystal Theatre promises A Child From the North and Charlie Chaplin staples across Sunday to Saturday, while The Globe presents Alone in New York and other acts, with Saturday diary notes on the Big Circus.
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Morus
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Rathi Williams
Tuesseux
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Muriel Ostriehead
Edwin August
Hames
Thuysday
Frida
Salisbury
Henry Walthall
North
Charlie Chaplin
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Mary Puller
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Iacule Henderson
Ani Mals
Crystal Theatre Show Tomorrow Features Chaplin Comedy
Crystal Theatre screens Charles Chaplin in The Jit. Nevelopement. The program promises a chuckle at the start and a roar at the end, drawing crowds eager for a classic silent era performance.
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