Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-02-07
EChs Daily Movie Magazine
FEW FILM STARS
OF FIVE YEARS AGO
ARE STILL SHINING

THE announcement that producers,
l. stars and exhibitors of motion pic
lures are going to unite throughout the
month of March in nation wide cele
bration of the tenth anniversary of the
feature motion picture brings into high
relief the changes that have been
wrought by the tickleness OF, the movie
fan.
Names that ten years ago lured the
people TO the tiny movie theatres today
are forgotten. In those ten years stage
luminarics have flashed across the screen
/ armament Ike metcors--and. like me-
teors. have disappeared. n few are
still popular. but only few.
In fact. one could count these who
were popular five years ago on the fin =
gers of the hand, Wallace Reid. Doug
las Fairbanks. Thomas Meishan. Mary
Pickford and Charlie Chaplin are about
the only ones who seem to have held
the admiration of the motion picture
public for that length of time.
1t was Just ton years ago that the
first big fivc-rcel feature film was
shown. revealing Sarah Bcrnhardt in
her stag" success. Queen Elizabeth. y
With this picture the Famous Players
Film Company was launched.
Following Queen Elizabeth came
Inc irlSOnpr Oh LCuOd. StdTTlne
James X. IIackett. and Mrs. Fiskc in
came a series of pictures starring Mary
Pickford that brought her the namc OF
"Thc Sweetheart of the World :" The
first Of these was SIN the Bishops Car
riage." and was followed by Caprice
and "Hcarts Adrift' and "A Good Lit
tie Devil" 1t was in this latter pro.
duction that the double exposure was
first used to good advantage.
Going further down the list Of Fa-
nous Players productions. we find such
old time favorites as Lille Langtry
Laura Sawyer. James O'Neill. Char.
lotte Nilsson, Cyril Scott. John Barry.
more. House Peters. William Fnrnum
Dustin Farnum. Gaby Dcslys. Arnold
DAILY. Bruce McRac. Hazel Dawn. Car
lyle Blackwell. Paul McAllister. vii.
liam Courtlcigh. Cecilia LOTUS. Edward
/ Abeles. Edmund Brcosc. Max Figman
! Hobart Bosworth, Pauline Frederick
and George Bchan.
/ Of these only Dustin Farnum. Will
/ liam Farnum. IIobert Bosworth nnt
/ Pauline Frederick remain in the memor!
| of present day movie fans. John Bar
/ rymorc, House Peters and Hobart Bos'
| worth now make only occasional pro
ductions. while the two Farnums ant
| Pauline Frederick are the only ones q
the early lot who are still active upor
the screen. Carlyle Blackwell. of whom
nothing had been heard in some tim"
has announced his intention of devotin
! his time exclusively to vaudeville.
Names unfamiliar to the present gen
Grafton of film fans, but which mean
crowded theatres eight years ago, in
clude Henry Dixie. Charlotte Ives. Jan
Grey. Kathleen Emerson. Edith Wynn
| Mathison, Alice DOvey and Winifre'
Kingston.
Other names more familiar are II. B
Warner, Henrietta Crossnan, Berth
Kalisch. Sessue Hayakawa. Mackly,
Arbuckle. Charles Richman. Glady
Hanson. Tyrone Power. Theodore Rob
erts, Adele Harrington. Bessie Rarri
scale. Marguerite Clark. Marie Dorc
Edith Taliaferro, Blanche Sweet, Mar
shall Neilan tthe same man who no,
directs). W. II. Crane and Elsie Janis
Wallace Reid has risen to stardor
since the days when he was leadin
man for Cleo Ridgely. kathlyn VIII
liams, Myrtle Stedman and Anita King