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The centennial of the birth of the lovely Carole Lombard will be October 6.  That is Carole with an “E”, check out the picture I just put in the 2008 Silent Star Album in the Photo Gallery  and a new Mary Miles Minter photo in mmm

 

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 Anna Luther’s diamond and sapphire bracelet is only part of a piece I am doing on Anna.  Rather than wait until I get the whole long thing done, I am posting parts.  So a 1923 article about diamonds and sapphires in Off Topic.  Later I will put it together with the Peggy Hopkins Joyce and Evelyn Nesbit pieces.

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A memory of Roscoe Arbuckle playing on the lawn with the neighborhood children and throwing corn-cobs was told by his wife in a period before they were in films while they were with Ferris Hartman is in Mabel’s Log.  A sweet story. Also there is a piece on Ferris in Off Topic

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In Coming Events is a list of films at UCLA

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Who was Peggy Hopkins Joyce?  There is a little information in Off Topic, it is going to be a note when I get the Ann Luther piece done but thought you might like to read about her.

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Chester Conklin made a film called Mixup in Affinities for Sennett but I didn't find it on the IMDb, by that name.what its other name? the glass slide in the album in the Photo Gallery

 

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I am working on a piece on Anne Luther (It isn’t readily yet).  Evelyn Nesbit is a footnote of note and rather than wait until I have done the whole thing, I thought I would get this off my desk.  Who is Evelyn Nesbit is in Off Topic

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An article from the Moving Picture Stories March 22, 1927 tells of Mabel being in the hospital, you can read it in Reprints

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Who was Carmel Myers? You can find out in "Off Topic"

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 The sweet reflection of Mabel, in a classic Keystone photo is in the 2008 Photo Album

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In the 2008 Silent Star Album are 3 new Hal Phyfe pictures from 1923, Ramon Novarro, Nazimova and Pauline Starke

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The New Conductor information is in Reprints

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Kim Deitch: A Retrospective  Exhibition at MoCCA, September 9 - December 5, 2008
information is in Mabel's Log

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A rather grand image of "The Valentino - Our Hero" is in the 2008 Silent Star Album done in 1923 by Mon Randall.  

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What fun, I put a whole lot of Mabel "Ephemera" in Wonderful Things, it came as a group in a folder so I kept it together.  If you would like a scan of a piece, let me know.

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Four more pictures were added to the 2008 Silent Star Album: Molly O'Day, 1928; Anita Page, 1929; Marion Davis, 1929 by Charles Sheldon; Nancy Carroll, 1929 by Earl Chisty

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A gift from Bruce Long has been added to the Hugh Fay article.  It is a 1916 Photoplay Weekly Mirror..."Hugh Fay Mugging" (just like Elfie).