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...cinema dealing with songwriters might well take Warren & Dubin for two type characters. Composer Warren is nearsighted and thin, suffers from nervous indigestion, a relic of the days of silent pictures when he played the piano in the old Vitagraph studios, attempted to provide an atmosphere that would inspire the actors...
Helen Hayes played children's parts for Vitagraph in 1910 but The Sin of Madelon Claudet, which came after she had been spoken of frequently as the ablest dramatic actress on the U. S. stage, was her first noteworthy venture in the cinema. She had the role of a French peasant girl who takes up with a thief and turns prostitute to support her son. Like Helen Hayes, Lynn Fontanne made her debut in cinema last year and her performance in The Guardsman was one of three nominated for the Academy's award. The third was aged Marie Dressier...
Once a boiler-stoker in a greenhouse, Mr. Kent received his business training as a salesman for American Druggists' Syndicate. He rose rapidly, became assistant to the president. After a short experience with Vitagraph Co. he helped liquidate General Film, indicted under the Sherman Act, and was soon talking business with Famous Players' Adolph Zukor. Tall Mr. Kent's first Paramount job was in the sales department. He was promoted to be district manager, with offices in Kansas City. His next change was a call to Manhattan where he was made first sales manager, then general manager...
Warner Brothers' Pictures, inc. (Said to control 25% of total U. S. production, 15% of which is accounted for by Vitagraph Inc., wholly owned subsidiary): $17,271,000 as against...
...Royal Box (Warner). A Frenchman's play about an English actor is now translated into German, so that famed Alexander Moissi can play it. But The Royal Box was not made in Germany but at Flatbush, N. Y. in the old Vitagraph studio where the late John Bunny and the Talmadge girls did their first work. It is Dumas' story of how Edmund Kean insulted the Prince of Wales from the stage because the Prince had made Kean's beloved sit in the Royal Box at a performance of Hamlet. Moissi rants in his best manner, letting...