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...Majestic Theatre on Wednesday evening, for the first time in Boston Mr. D. W. Griffith presented "Dream Street", a dramatic comedy, suggested by characters of Thomas Burke in "Limehouse Nights" In the Foreword in the program, Mr. Griffith acknowledge that the ideas of the photoplay we taken for two stories, "Gina of Chinatitown" and "The Sign of the Lamp". And yet while they were the small eiders, they were somehow changed in the transition from page to screen; made more romantic--although Burke is always romantic; and more cheerful, and the whole, while retaining all there interest...
Clara Kimball Young stars in the feature attraction at the Park Theatre this week, in a well-filmed photoplay entitled "Straight From Paris". A co-feature is Frank Mayo's newest picture, "The Magnificent Brute", which offers a subtle bit of melodrama...
...famous "East Lynne" appears in photoplay form as the leading feature at the Park Theatre this week. In action and plot it closely follows the well-known theme of heroine and villain with the result that a true melodramatic production appears on the screen. Eva Novak in "Society Secrets" is the other feature...
...satirical effect for its situations. On the same bill is Bebe Daniels in "Ducks and Drakes", wherein she plays the role of an unconventional young heiress whose chief delight is calling telephone numbers at random and flirting with unknown male voices at the other end of the wire. This photoplay has been announced for a forthcoming production on the stage...
...Combat," a first-run photoplay featuring Anita Stewart, will lead the "movie" program. An animated "Boob" cartoon by Goldberg, and "Luke and the Mermaid," a comedy, will also be shown. Refreshments, including beer, cider, ginger ale and cigarettes will be provided...