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Lillian Gish and David Wark Griffith met in Mary Pickford's dressing-room in the old Biograph studio. Lillian Gish had left Massillon, Ohio, to go on the stage with her sister Dorothy. As a fairy in The Good Little Devil she was lifted across the stage by a wire which broke one night and dropped her on the floor. She burst into tears, later rewarded with a salary which gave each trembling drop the literal value of a pearl...
...adventures of a tramp were displayed by the versatile biograph to the intense amusement of the spectators, and Arthur Fisher told amusing stories, and gave some good imitations, especially of the playing of the banjo and the mandolin. A melody of popular airs with ridiculous verses, sung by Fitzgerald and Gilday, was well received. The Labakans performed many ludicrous gymnastic feats, but their little black and tan "Folly" quite outdid them. Rogers, the singer, was much appreciated and Hawthorne and Burt gave a laughable little sketch, in which Burt told of his economies and their disastrous results. Devoy and Miller...
...biograph closed the entertainment with a remarkably clear moving picture of the Harvard and Cambridge boat-race...
...program includes the following acts: Arthur Fisher, impersonator; Fitzgerald and Gilday, conversationalists and parodists; the Labakans, grotesque gymnasts, and their dog "Folly"; Rogers and Deely presenting their original conception "The Singer and his Valet"; Hawthorne and Burt in their comical sketch "And I Laughed"; the biograph, including pictures of the Harvard-Cambridge boat-race last summer...
...program includes the following: Arthur Fisher, impersonator; Fitzgerald and Gilday, conversationalists and parodists; The Labakans, grotesque gymnasts, and their dog "Folly;" Rogers and Deely presenting their original conception "The Singer and his Valet;" Hawthorne and Burt in their comical sketch "And I Laughed;" the biograph, including the picture of the Harvard and Cambridge boat race...