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Bosworth, Inc., according to Moving Picture World, together with Famous Players Film Co. and the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Co., comprised the Para¬ mount Pictures Corp. in 1914. Illustrative of their theatrical roots, Famous Players were affiliated with Daniel and Charles Frohman and Henry W. Savage, Lasky with David Belasco and the Liebler Co., and now Bosworth had its tie-up with Cort and Morosco. By the beginning of 1915, Bosworth was advertising its national headquarters as 211 N. Occidental Blvd., which would indicate an entrance slightly north of the studio’s present front door. Trade news a few months later referred to “The Morosco-Bosworth Studios,” when Mov¬ ing Picture World reported the signing of Shakespearean actress Victory Bateman.“In order to accommodate the increased activities at the Morosco- Bosworth studios,” said the publication, “the stage has been extended west so that it gains an additional area of over 2500 square feet. Another 25,000 square feet has been added to the facilities of the Council Street stage, devoted to big exter¬ ior sets, by fencing a solid 75-foot strip straight through the block, from Council to First.” This suggests that First St. has been renamed Hyans, the present northern boundary of the lot. Moving Picture World, early in 1917, reported “at the Morosco-Pallas Studios, which are now controlled by the Famous Players-Lasky Company, a new stage is being built and the plant so adjusted that it can handle at least six companies.” Motion Picture Studio Directory and Trade Annual for that year listed three producers or production companies at 201 N. Occidental Blvd. — Bosworth, Inc., Oliver Morosco and Pallas Pictures, Inc. By 1918, however, Bosworth had disappeared and the Directory listed Mor¬ osco Feature Play Co. and Pallas Pictures, Inc., as the two producers in residence. In 1919 the Directory named the site Morosco Studios under a Famdus Players-Lasky Corp. listing; in 1920, simply the Morosco Studios, and in 1921, Realart Studios, at BOTH 201 and 211 N. Occidental Blvd. Film Yearbook for both 1924 and 1926 lists the location as Famous Players-Lasky Corp., Wilshire Branch, un¬ der Studio headings, and also, for the first time, notes a film laboratory under the same roof: Roy Davidge & Co. Davidge, however, shortly thereafter moved closer to the heart of Hollywood. Standard trade references provide no information on the site for the next couple of years, vrtiich would coincide with the town’s convulsive shift from Aldrich Studios hostesses line up in front of studios on Occidental Blvd. From left: Minta Durfee Arbuckle, Betty Blythe, Claire Windsor, Conrad Nagel. From left: Jackie Coogan, Raymond Hatton, Wesley Barry. Page 5