Word: filming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chief of Police Joseph Wakelin soon saw that the "extra" was the work of no Hot Springs newspaper, that it was evidently a publicity stunt for the film, Tell It To The Marines, starring Lon Chaney, showing that night at a local theatre owned by one Sidney M. Nutt. Chief Wakelin instantly caused Mr. Nutt's press agent, one Charles Hefley, to be arrested...
Moon of Israel. Again the Red Sea makes way for the Israelites.! This time the miracle is incidental to a story based on Sir Rider Haggard's novel. This German film includes an episode in which the son of Pharaoh seeks out a slave girl as bride. It manages to be rather dull...
...ceremonies, is bored with everything. No former wedding was like this one, however, where he is obliged to recover letters from a blackmailing woman and to chase a pigeon up the flagpole of a skyscraper in what proved, figuratively and literally, to be the high point of a funny film...
...First Auto. When, in 1895, the automobile started to run the horse out, Hank Armstrong (Russell Simpson) found himself hitched to the stable cause, while his son, Bob (Charles E. Mack*), trailed the new-fangled enemy. Only after Barney Oldfield (who appears in the film) has roared over a race track at the unprecedented speed of 60 miles per hour, and Sloe Eyes, his last mare, has taken her final earthly hurdle, does the old horse-lover give in to the conquering gas-buggy. By that time his son has grown romantic under the influence of the heroine (Patsy Ruth...
...song-and-dance heap. Unfortunately, he permits rolling dice to crush his moral fibre, so she leaves him and starts to ascend alone. Abjuring all her rich admirers in the moment of glittering triumph, she returns to her husband, who promises never to do it again. The film was made in Manhattan, enriched with authentic local color from the footlight district, blessed with an intelligent scenario...