A pictorial history of the silent screen (1953)

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2a# ;• jr** Mb, W: k> ** fe.M • ■ WB — L_ I WILLIAM S. HART $mi SCENES FROM "DON QUIXOTE" STARRING DE WOLF HOPPER WITH FAY TINCHER AND GEORGE WALSH 1 Q 1 C D. W. Griffith, Thomas H. Ince and Mack Sennett formed lulU the Triangle Film Corporation. Triangle stock was listed on the New York Curb and motion pictures had joined America's important industries. They announced an imposing array of names which included Billie Burke, William Collier, Eddie Foy, Weber and Fields, Mary Boland, Frank Keenan, De Wolf Hopper, Raymond Hitchcock Louise Dresser, Douglas Fairbanks, Constance Collier, Dustin Farnum, Sir Herbert Tree, H. B. ^Warner, Lillian and Dorothy Gish, Henry Woodruff, Sam Bernard, Julia Dean and William S Hart Of all this array, the most important, as history was to prove were Douglas Fairbanks and William S. Hart. Hart became the screen's greatest cowboy star. Douglas Fairbanks was one of Broadway's youngest stars when he appeared in his first film, The Lamb." His success was instantaneous and he became one of the greatest figures of filmdom. Billie Burke was paid $40,000 for five weeks' work. It was the largest salary paid to any artist who had so far appeared in pictures. "Peggy," her first picture, was the beginning of a long and successful film career. Triangle announced that it would make two-dollar-a-seat pictures, which was unheard of at this time. On September 23, 1915, the threat became a fact with its first Triangle offering at the Knickerbocker Theatre with the regular Broadway scale of prices from two dollars to fifty cents and some especially deluxe seats at three dollars. The program consisted of "The Lamb," "The Iron Strain" and "My Valet," products of Griffith's, Ince's and Sennett's supervision. MARGERY WILSON, JOHN GILBERT IN "THE MOTHER INSTINCT" RAYMOND WELLS, DOROTHY GISH, WALLACE REID (Also Above) IN "OLD HEIDELBERG" WALLACE REID IN WILLIAM COLLIER "OLD HEIDELBERG" TRIANGLE PRODUCTIONS WEBER AND FIELDS IN "THE BEST OF ENEMIES" Above EDDIE FOY AND THE SEVEN LITTLE FOYS IN "A FAVORITE FOOL" 97