When the movies were young (1925)

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The Movies Tempt 35 denning, (of "Little Old New York"), Ruth Shepley (star of "Adam and Eva"), Johnny Dooley, (celebrated eccentric dancer), George Nash, Gustav von Seyfertitz (for years director and star of the old Irving Place Theatre), Macy Harlam, Arthur Donaldson, Mortimer Snow, William Morris (of "Maytime" fame). A few other names of world-famous people must be mentioned in connection with this picture, for Joseph Urban was the man of the "sets" ; Gidding & Company made the gowns ; Sir Joseph Duveen and P. W. French & Company supplied Gothic draperies; and Cartier, antique jewelry. There were only two old movie pioneers connected with the production: Flora Finch, who back in old Vitagraph days co-starred with John Bunny and after his death held her place alone as an eccentric comedienne ; and the director, Robert G. Vignola, who back in the days of our "Knighthood" was the young chap who dusted off the benches and furniture in the old Kalem loft. But Robert Vignola, who came of humble Italian parentage, had a brain in his young head, and was ambitious. Realizing the limitations of Albany, his home town, he had set out for New York and landed a job in a motion picture studio. Young Vignola represented at the Kalem organization, in the early days, what Bobbie Harron did at Biograph. But the Biograph, from ranking the last in quality of picture production, grew to occupy first place, while Kalem continued on a rather more even way. But Bob Vignola didn't, as the years have shown. Indeed, many big names have appeared in movies called "When Knighthood Was in Flower," but David Griffith's is not the biggest, nor was it the first, for before the end of the year 1902, in Marienbad, Germany, a film thirty-one