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Looking back at 1912 it is hard to believe that Sarah Bernhardt's movie "Queen Elizabeth" much agitated a year so full of exciting events. People talked about the Titanic and the Bull Moose and the Balkan War if they were not reading the latest books of O. Henry, Edith Wharton, and Henry Adams. Just out of the nickleodeon era, the movies in America were far inferior to European productions, and attracted only a million persons a day. In 1912, however, the entertainment became an art under the patronage of the great Bernhardt, an event perhaps more portentious than others...
Other revivals in yesterday's installment included "A Trip to the Moon" produced in 1902, "The Great Train Robbery" of 1903, "Faust" of 1907, and Sarah Bernhardt in "Queen Elizabeth" released in 1911. This series gave some idea of the beginnings of the film industry, when the camera was held in one position, and the characters moved back and forth in front of it, never approaching or receding, thus giving the effect of the legitimate stage. "Queen Elizabeth" was the last and most highly developed of this type and since it was smoother and clearer the acting technique could...
...only Chinese parochial school, in San Francisco's Oriental quarter. To please ladies, LIFE'S cinema hero-of- the-week was Hollywood's "beautiful" Robert Taylor, who plays opposite Greta Garbo in Camille to be released shortly. Following this feature, LIFE presented four other memorable Camilles: Bernhardt's, Ethel Barrymore's, Theda Bara's, Eva Le Gallienne's. A memorable color shot from the live theatre showed Helen Hayes & Co. in the great third-act pageant of Victoria Regina, eye-filling scene hitherto overlooked by snappers of performance pictures. To LIFE...
...with a concealed wife & child. When the home-town suitor reappears, Muriel Flood greets him with great enthusiasm, but by this time he has a wife of his own, too. The manager consoles her by reading a review which credits her with "the most illuminated acting since Sarah Bernhardt...
...Canada; 3) established a modern valuable art library; 4) published 38 different books and pamphlets; 5) put on many a radio art program; 6) established a cinema museum which is preserving for students such valued films as the first Mack Sennett custard pies, The Birth of a Nation, Sarah Bernhardt as Queen Elizabeth, the first sound picture (Al Jolson's Jazz Singer), Rudolph Valentino in Monsieur Beaucaire. Besides the donations from Miss Bliss, Mrs. Rockefeller and others, the Museum acquired few months ago Surrealist Salvador Dali's famed canvas of the limp watches on the seashore, The Persistence...