A pictorial history of the silent screen (1953)

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CLARA BEYERS, BEATRIZ MICHELENA, HOUSE PETERS IN "MIGNON" (WORLD) O. A. C. LUND, BARBARA TENNANT IN "WHEN BROADWAY WAS A TRAIL" (WORLD) LILLIAN RUSSELL IN "WILDFIRE" (WORLD) 10 1 t In February, World Film Corporals ■ W tion was formed. It included the theatrical interests of the Shuberts and William A. Brady. Arthur Spiegel, head of a mail order house, became president and Lewis J. Selznick, a former small-time jeweler, was vicepresident and general manager. Their first major move was the acquisition of Clara Kimball Young, Vitagraph star with sensational box office power. Alice Brady, Robert Warwick, Vivian Martin and Holbrook Blinn, all stage personalities, were signed and became important in the film realm. California, and especially Hollywood, on the then outskirts of Los Angeles, was coming into the spotlight as a film producing center. Selig was the first company to make films in California in the early days, and in 1908 G. M. Anderson established a Western branch of Essanay at Niles, California. Because the climate was better for out-door filming, soon Vitagraph, Biograph, Kalem and most of the established companies opened branch studios in California. By 1915 about fifty percent of American films were being made in the Golden State. ROBERT WARWICK IN 'THE FACE IN THE MOONLIGHT" (WORLD) EDWARD DILLON, FAY TINCHER IN "FAITHFUL TO THE FINISH" (KOMIC) VIVIAN MARTIN, GEORGE HASSELL, CHARLES JUDELL, MARIE EMPRESS, CHARLES BARNETT, LEW FIELDS IN "OLD DUTCH" (WORLD) HOLBROOK BLINN VIVIAN MARTIN ROBERT WARWICK CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG WORLD STARS 95