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STUDIO SECTION OF
March 26, 1927
E. H. GRIFFITH
DIRECTOR Just Completed:
“AFRAID TO LOVE”
for
PARAMOUNT
Alfred A. Cohn
FREE LANCE WRITER
Now preparing for the screen the Famous Stage Hit:
“The Jazz Singer”
FOR WARNER BROS.
Photoplays and Are Recalled by
These paragraphs have been submitted by an exhibitor who owned a motion picture theatre in a small Ohio town 14 years ago.
HOW many of you could name the cast of that old Vitagraph picture, “Beau Brumel,” made in 1913, and written and produced by James Young? That name recalls another — that of the star — Clara Kimball Young. The “Beau” was played by James Young, you remember, and the stodgy Prince of Wales was played by Charles Chapman.
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That was about the time Edison made a little picture, “Confidence,” with Marc McDermott doing a lot of important things in the story. Harry Beaumont had not gone beyond the makeup box then and was playing the role of a young clerk inthe bank.
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Do you remember “The Flaming Forge”’ which had three good men in the cast headed by Tom Santschi, Herbert Rawlinson and William Hutchinson? It was a story about the Village Smithy and the Village Cobbler and the Village Belle and I don’t know what all. Lubin might have made it but it seems more as if it were Selig.
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Kate Price was among the good comediennes of that day. She did a role in a cast with Helen Costello in a little human interest picture made by Van Dyke Brooke called the “Foundling” or “Grogan’s Foundling” ; something of that sort of name. Helen was pretty small and played the “foundling” who was taken up and cared for by Kate Price. When the kid
Harvard to Establish Motion Picture Library
(Special to the Herald)
CAMBRIDGE, MASS., March 22. — The Department of Fine Arts of Harvard University, in association with the Fogg Museum and the University Library, plans immediately to establish a library and archive of 61ms. With the cooperation of Will H. Hays, president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc., and of the producers themselves this collection will be formed to serve the double purpose of recording the evolution of the moving picture from its beginning to the present day, and of selecting annually those Elms which are deemed worthy of preservation as works of art.