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Author Archives: Tory Lowe

Pendleton King

Pendleton King Obituary

March 31, 2015by Tory Lowe Leave a comment

Pendleton King’s 1919 obituary in the New York Clipper mentions his play, Cocaine, and its performance by the Provincetown Players.

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Cocaine (1916) by Pendleton King, Pendleton King, Playwrights
Cocaine

The Mystery of the Glass Tube (1914)

March 31, 2015by Tory Lowe Leave a comment

1914 article from the film periodical Motography which reviews the film The Mystery of the Glass Tube, a detective film which involved an opium den and cocaine smuggling.

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Film Analyses
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Rachel Crothers Article

March 31, 2015by Tory Lowe Leave a comment

This brief article from a November 1919 issue of the Film Daily addresses Rachel Crothers’ work with the Stage Women’s War Relief organization during World War I, as well as […]

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Playwrights, Rachel Crothers
Jude Law & Ruth Wilson

Eugene O’Neill

December 9, 2014by Tory Lowe Leave a comment

Eugene O’Neill was one of America’s greatest playwrights and still remains the only playwright to garner multiple Pulitzer Prizes and the Nobel Prize for Literature.  Click on the link below to […]

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Eugene O'Neill

Tory Lowe

December 9, 2014by Tory Lowe Leave a comment

Tory Lowe is a second-year doctoral student in the English department at Miami University. His areas of interest include early 20th century film culture and its intersections with literatures of […]

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Tory Lowe
My Little Sister

Evelyn Nesbit in My Little Sister (1919)

December 9, 2014by Tory Lowe Leave a comment

This review of the film adaptation of Elisabeth Robins’ My Little Sister (1919) appeared in the magazine Moving Picture World. The review describes the “sensation” the play caused upon its […]

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Actresses & Actors, Elizabeth Robins, Evelyn Nesbit, Film Analyses, My Little Sister (1913) by Elizabeth Robins
The Red Kimona

The Red Kimona (1925)

December 9, 2014by Tory Lowe Leave a comment

This is an excerpt from The Red Kimona (1925), directed by Dorothy Davenport – a.k.a. Mrs. Wallace Reid, an actress married to popular matinee idol Wallace Reid. She took his […]

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Film Clips, Gender
The Cheat

The Cheat (1915)

December 9, 2014by Tory Lowe Leave a comment

The Cheat (1915) was directed by Cecil B. DeMille for Paramount Pictures, and stars Fannie Ward and Sessue Hayakawa (noted as the screen’s first Japanese American film star). The film […]

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Film Clips, Gender, Race
Variety - January 1919

Variety Review of East is West

December 9, 2014by Tory Lowe Leave a comment

This review of East is West appeared in Variety‘s January 3, 1919 issue. Note that Forrest Robinson is credited with replacing Frank Kemble Cooper in the role of Andrew Benson […]

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A Shanghai Cinderella (renamed East is West, 1918) by Samuel Shipman and John B. Hymer, Race, Spectatorship
East is West

Constance Talmadge in East is West (1922)

December 9, 2014by Tory Lowe Leave a comment

This advertisement for the first film adaptation of East is West, which starred Constance Talmadge as Ming Toy, appeared in Exhibitors’ Herald in 1922.

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A Shanghai Cinderella (renamed East is West, 1918) by Samuel Shipman and John B. Hymer, Constance Talmadge, Promotional Materials, Race

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SEX FOR SALE: SIX PROGRESSIVE-ERA BROTHEL DRAMAS

Sisters in Sin: Brothel Drama in America, 1900 – 1920

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