When the movies were young (1925)

Record Details:

Title:
When the movies were young
Date:
1925
Publisher:
New York : E. P. Dutton & Company
Volume:
When the movies were young
Leaf #:
000282
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Motion pictures--Biography
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
December 28, 2023
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CHAPTER XXVII SOMEWHAT DIGRESSIVE T7R0M the old Biograph Stock Company they graduated, **■ scenario writers as well as actors; and here and there they went, filling bigger jobs in other companies, as actors, directors, and scenario editors. And as manager and head director of the Kinemacolor Company went David Miles. Directly upon leaving Biograph, Mr. Miles had spent a short time at the "Imp" with Mary Pickford and her family, King Baggott, George Loane Tucker, Gaston Bell, Isabel Rea, and Tom Ince. Leaving "Imp/* he had gone over to Reliance. While at Reliance, and in need of a handsome young juvenile, there came to mind his friend Gaston Bell. Mr. Bell already was signed up for a ten weeks' stock season in Washington, D. C. ; with "Caught in the Rain" by William Collier and Grant Stewart, as the opening bill ; Julia Dean, the leading lady; Mr. Bell's part that of the dapper Englishman, the Grant Stewart part. Mr. Miles suggested that Gaston play the needed juvenile in the Reliance Company's movie while rehearsing the opening bill of his Washington stock season in New York, and promised a good movie job when the Washington season ended. Said he'd rush him through at odd hours, so as not to interfere with rehearsals, and finish with him in time for the opening. Well, everything went along fine, and for the last scene 234