We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
THE UNIVERSAL WEEKLY
6
>t Film Ever Made in America
ork City, Praises showered on it by the press of New York. Tindy City press extravagant in expressions of commendation.
Dionysius Assumes the Grown and Becomes the Tyrant of Syracuse.
Damon
Pythias
Dionysius
Calanthe Anna Little
Hermione ..Cleo Madison
Arria Miss Wright
Damon's Son ...C. House Phillistus ..H. Davenport Laculus, slave to Damon, H. B. Worue
Democles Edgar Keller
Perocles ...Bruce Mitchell
In producing "Damon and Pythias" the Universal Film Manufacturing Company has taken a story from the book of mankind, one that has lived and pulsed with truth since four hundred years before the dawn of the Christian era. It is a story every one knows, and for that reason the pictures hold all the more fascination and interest. It comes as the foundation of the principles of benevolence and man's humanity to man, as found in the ritual of the Knights of Pythias, and the Supreme Lodge and all subordinate ledges representing three million theatregoers. Educational and historical societies and clergymen have endorsed this heartgripping story.
Following this, and in
. .Wm. Worthington .Herbert Rawlinson Frank Lloyd
the same policy for big things, the Universal Company will present more feature films of an engaging and inspiring character— those that will live in motion picture history as great play productions of the past have lived in the history of the legitimate drama.
"Damon and Pythias" was produced at a great cost after months of study and research. It has not only been proclaimed as a great picture production, an intense, an absorbing and dramatic story, full of sentiment and love interest, but it was unstintedly praised for its correctness in detail, ita perfect picturing and complete atmosphere of the period 400 years B. C. when Greece was in the height of her pomp, power and glory.
The story opens in Syracuse, a city governed by a body of Senators. Dionysius, its chief general, covets the throne and is strongly opposed by the Senator, Damon. Among the generals of Dionysius, Pythias is his favorite, for through his
Calanthe's Garden of Beauty.
(Continued on Page 8.)