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...Clark Gable as Blackie Gallagher in MGM's Manhattan Melodrama (TIME, May 14) many a cinemaddict one night last week went to the Biograph Theatre on Chicago's North Side. One of them was a slight, dark-haired, harmless-looking little man in shirtsleeves, wearing a white hat and gold-rimmed spectacles. As he walked up to the box office, a man sitting in a parked car at the curb gave a start. Chief Investigator Melvin Purvis of the Department of Justice in Chicago had, for the first time in a four-month manhunt, clapped eyes on Desperado...
...grown a mustache. His eyebrows were plucked, his pug nose straightened, his face "lifted." But these disguises did not fool Investigator Purvis. Thanks to a woman's tip, Investigator Purvis and 15 Federal agents were ready for Desperado Dillinger when he strode jauntily out of the Biograph Theatre two hours later. At the sight of men closing in on him from nowhere Dillinger whirled, reached for his gun, darted for an alley. A volley of lead cut him down in his tracks, one bullet through the head, one near the heart. Down the street two women were shot...
...maiden, name, as the family surname and altered Gladys to "Mary." In 1909, D. W. Griffith was looking for someone to play Pippa in Pippa Passes when, having interviewed Mary Pickford, he said, "That girl would be a pip as Pippa." From $40 per week in one-reel Biograph features, she advanced, first under Griffith, then with other companies, to $2,000 a week in 1915, when she was called the highest salaried woman in the world. Now, married to Douglas Fairbanks, she makes .over $1,000,000 per annum and makes special trips to Washington about her income...
...right, baby." Best shot: close-up of convicts at attention. Like many a handsome, athletic young man who has the air of being an actor in spite of himself, Richard Barthelmess has been in the show business most of his life. His mother, Caroline Harris, played in Biograph pictures at the old Fort Lee (N. J.) studios...
Griffith made her an old woman-the pinchfaced mother in Judith of Bethulia, Intolerance; he made her an outcast girl in Way Down East, Colonel Cameron's sweetheart in Birth of a Nation. She went with him from Biograph to Reliance, Majestic, Fine Arts, Artcraft, First National, United Artists. Somehow, no matter how bad the scenario was, her intelligence brought to certain moments and situations that reality which is the definition of great acting and which Miss Gish's famous frailty, her dimples, her soft, elliptical face, and her pale hair down to her waist could not keep...