Paramount and Artcraft Press Books (1917)

Press stories to be sent out a week or ten days in advance of the showing of “THE SECRET GAME” The cast which has been chosen for Sessue Hayakawa's newest Paramount picture "The Secret Game" is an exceptionally notable one including: Jack Holt, Florence Vidor, Ma3rme Kelso, Charles Ogle and Raymond Hatton. The latter who has made several notable hits, once with Mary Pickford in "The Little American" and once with Geraldine Farrar in "The Woman God Forgot," takes the difficult role of a spy disguised as a woman, "The Secret Game" is one of the most up-to-date photoplays of the year and deals with the Japanese-American situation in a new and unexpected manner, showing the two great countries to be, the strongest of allies and friends. The photoplay will appear at the Theatre commencing on HAYAKAWA HURT IN FALL AT STUDIO Paramount's Japanese actor unromantic ally slips and falls downstairs from dressing room— hurts back. Sessus Hayakawa, the Jap^ese actor, who has appeared in many Paramount productions and whose latest picture, "The Secret Game," is to be shown at the beginning on is thoroughly disgusted. During his lengthy period of work with the Paramount Corporation, Hayakawa has been obliged to go through all sorts of risky escapades, through all of which he has come unscathed. He has been hung, shot, stabbed and engaged in fistic and jiu jitsu encounter with all sorts of individuals and mobs; has made flights in all sorts of vehicles; been dumped into rivers and lakes and braved enough dangers to satisfy the most adventurous directors. And it remained for him to slip on a small piece of wood while going downstairs from his dressing room at the Lasky studios at Hollywood, California and to fall and so severely injure his back that he had to be taken home in an ambulance. While the injury is not serious, it is painful and confined the star to his bed for several days, thereby delaying the work on "The Secret Game", 14