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...modern and efficient as the liquor trade is the aim of the Women's Christian Temperance Union's present $500,000 educational campaign. Last year it distributed a four-reel sound film entitled The Beneficent Reprobate in which appeared no drooling drunks or starving children but a frog named Elmer who passed out in a solution of 5% alcohol. W.C.T.U.'s national president is clever, plump, 65-year-old Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith. An astute politician and public agitator, Mrs. Smith clicks off such anti-liquor statistics as the following: Rejections of insurance applicants for "heavy...
...story is divided into five parts, carrying out the theme in as many different settings. It represents the culmination of D. W. Griffith's early success in "cutting" and assembling lengths of film to form the final twelve reel picture, a then very advanced step in cinematography...
Lady Hart Dyke has 21 acres of mulberry bushes, tended by partly disabled War veterans. Her worms eat 300 lb. of leaves daily, are kept in trays in the biggest rooms of the castle. The girls who gather the cocoons and reel off the silk fibres are sent abroad for training. Britain's only commercial raw silk producer has four reeling machines which turn out some 20 lb. of raw silk per week...
Your use of the word "replaced" without qualification, is far from accurate. When my contract with the former Hearst Metrotone News expired, I was invited to renew it by Vice President Edgar B. Hatrick of the news reel. For reasons entirely personal, I was unwilling to sign a contract of renewal and so notified Mr. Hatrick...
...been using their escapade to make headlines in the U. S. Sally takes up with Michael's gullible rival reporter (Franchot Tone). Michael follows her, effects a reconciliation. Rash Sally falls into the clutches of two international spies who have been shadowing her since Reel 1. Brave Michael rescues...