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Life. He was born in Lucas, a small Iowa mining town, on Feb. 12, 1880, of Welsh parents who immigrated in the 70's. His father was a blacklisted coal miner in the " Big Screen Strike" of 1882 and was forced to go to Des Moines. Those were the times of the ten-and eleven-hour day and a minimum wage...
...picture serves to introduce Ivor Novello, a youth of brilliant promise. Unfortunately his work is overshadowed by the acting of Mae Marsh who puts into the part of the luckless working girl one of the finest performances in screen history...
William A. Brady, theatrical producer: "In a speech before the Chicago Woman's Club I said: 'Motion picture censorship in unAmerican. ... As a matter of fact, every reputable producer would send to Sing Sing any person who deliberately put a filthy scene on the screen...
...Memoirs. It is impossible to escape from the logic of M. Viviani's scathing denunciation of the ex-Kaiser's tacit inculpation in the events which preceded the world-wide cataclysm. The author has written this book from the traditional standpoint of a French nationalist. There is no screen to impartiality. The object is to prove first of all the ex-Kaiser's guilt and then the incrimination of high personages in Germany in the dishonorable plot to force war on the world. M. Viviani not only accomplishes what he sets out to do, but actually damns the Germans from...
While he delivered his address numerous slides were thrown upon the screen showing, the palace at Versailles,--its plans, exteriors and interiors, views of its parks and statuary. The famous muscums, the Louvre and the Invalides, were also shown as famous examples of French architecture of that period. Among the chateaux that were shown for their beautiful design were those at Vaux and Marly. In addition many examples of commemorative architecture were exhibited...