Attached is an excerpt from a longer article by a middle-aged fellow who looked back to his last days as a teenager and recalled some of the offerings and events from 1914 Hollywood.
• The most popular screen performers were Mary Pickford, John Bunny, Ethel Barrymore and May Irwin.
• The most popular films were “The Peril’s of Pauline” and an Italian film titled “Cabiria” (directed by Giovanni Pastrone, aka: Piero Fosco).
This reminiscence pays tribute to a stand-up comedian named Jack Gardner and his skit, “Curse You Jack Dalton”, in which he interacted with the performers on a movie screen, “ordering” them about, cracking wise and even having the audience believe that he had shot one of them.
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