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...theaters practically everywhere in the world. Chaplin has promised his pictures to the Museum eventually, but so long as they are moneymakers, he is not interested in having them used for nonprofitable study. Meanwhile, he vigorously runs down and prosecutes "pirates." A few old Chaplin comedies made for Keystone, Essanay and Mutual studios are being shown to Museum visitors, but post-1918 Chaplin-produced pictures (including Shoulder Arms and The Kid) are taboo...
Hero of the film will be Reverend Gilbert V. Hartke of Catholic University who heads the drama department there. No stranger to the silver screen. Reverend Hartke made his dobut playing juvenile roles for the now defunct Essanay Film Company...
...East Side settlement house into touring in Shakespeare with the Ben Greet Players. Neither this nor playing juvenile leads with Ethel Barrymore convinced Edward Arnold that he had any future as an actor. He tried selling insurance and traveling in wholesale groceries. In 1916 he was playing leads with Essanay Film Co. in Chicago. Thereafter, his luck failed in cinema and he spent 15 years as a character actor on the Manhattan stage until his work in a Coast company of Whistling in the Dark got him a few small parts in Hollywood in 1932. His performance as a bibulous...
...June Walker, although only 31, has been trouping for 13 years. This is not, as commonly supposed, her first picture. She made one for the old Essanay...
Long ago one George K. Spoor experimented with a primitive projection machine, started the first film distributing company, became a controlling factor in the old Essanay Co. In 1916 he quit film production but continued experiments to find new tools. Last fortnight, and again last week, Experimenter Spoor announced some new cinema devices which he had developed with the aid of two engineers ?Fred J. Lindbergh (no kin) and P. John Berggren?and which, coming from George K. Spoor, may well prove important...