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...Charmer. Pola Negri almost always works an entertaining miracle of some sort. Whether it is her personality or the shrewd selection of directors and material is difficult to say. Sidney Olcott took an old novel, put her back in the pages as a dancing girl in a European inn. A theatre man, a millionaire and his chauffeur become interested in her. She comes to New York, dances herself into prominence, marries the chauffeur...
...Only Woman. The old story of the girl who married the wastrel to save her father's crooked business fortunes. All the rest of the report is good news. Norma Talmadge played it in association with Eugene O'Brien. Sidney Olcott, who stands with Griffith, Lubitsch, and Cruze as one of the great directors, turned his hand to the old yarn and wove it into a bright and almost novel garment. Of late, Mr. Olcott has been directing in the East (Little Old New York, The Green Goddess, The Humming Bird) and deserted to do The Only Woman...
...brother and attorney. Instead of Walsh alone, Walsh and Spencer now share the leading role of chief investigator. Daugherty : ¶ Following Mr. Daugherty's resignation from the Department of Justice, the investigating committee decided it would continue its job of making revelations. ¶ P. J. Van Vechten Olcott, Manhattan lawyer, testified that he had been approached and asked to furnish $10,000 to be appointed a Federal judge, and to pay $25,000 additional when the nomination was confirmed. He declared that no beneficiaries were named, except "the boys." ¶ A special agent of the Department of Justice testified...
...worm lias turned-a managerial one. Among the pieces which Oliver Morosco intends to try out on the Coast this summer is one called Schemers by William Irving Sirovich-a satire upon New York theatrical critics. The chief characters are Alan Gale, A. Wood Brown, James Corbett and Alex Olcott, and ah, what a rapping they get! Now can any clever little boy or girl tell just what New York critics, Mr. Sirovich has in mind? Thank you-the next puzzle competition will consist in guessing the missing letters in Philadelpia. Henry E. Dixey and Wilton Lackaye had been...
Constitution and Membership.--W. W. Dulles of Princeton, chairman; D. W. Olcott of Williams; W. C. Worthington of Brown...