A pictorial history of the silent screen (1953)

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BERT WILLIAMS IN "A NATURAL BORN GAMBLER" (BIOGRAPH) MATT SNYDER, MARSHALL NEILAN IN "THE CRISIS" (SELIG) PEARL WHITE, BRUCE McREA, WILLIAM RILEY HATCH IN "HAZEL KIRKE" (PATHE) 1 Q 1 R 0i th(? °ld §Uard' VitagraPh' I d I 0 Ess an ay and Pathe were the only companies showing signs of surviving the onrush of the powerful and vastly expanding newer companies. Essanay signed William Gillette to film his famous "Sherlock Holmes"; also Ann Murdock, Eugene O'Brien, Sallie Fisher, Lewis Stone, Gladys Hanson and Virginia Hammond from the stage. Vitagraph signed such stage luminaries as E. H. Sothern, Edna May, May Robson and Barney Bernard, and filmdom's own Alice Joyce. Jeanne Eagels, prior to her stage fame, made her film debut in "The World and The Woman" for Pathe, but it was the numerous serials with popular Pearl White and Ruth Roland that saved Pathe from oblivion. Lewis J. Selznick was branching out. Under his banner he formed the Clara Kimball Young Film Corporation. He also contracted Norma Talmadge and the famous Russian actress, Nazimova, who made her screen debut in "W^ir Brides." A youngster named Richard Barthelmess, whose mother had taught Nazimova English, had a small role in this film. ROSE MELVILLE AS SIS HOPKINS IN SHE CAME, SHE SAW, SHE CONQUERED" (KALEM) A LLOYD V. HAMILTON AND BUD DUNCAN OF "HAM AND BUD" COMEDIES (KALEM) MABEL TRUNNELLE, EDWARD EARLE, MARC MacDERMOTT IN "RANSON'S FOLLY" (EDISON) ROBERT EDESON, JOSE COLLINS IN "THE LIGHT THAT FAILED" (PATHE) WHEELER OAKMAN, HARRY LONSDALE, KATHLYN WILLIAMS IN "THE NE'ER-DO-WELL" (SELIG) in