The Gem Theater opened at 113 W. Third Street in 1910. The first showing — a silent film — was “Muggsy Becomes a Hero,” the ...

“I hate the term ‘silent film’ because they were never ... Ornate urban “movie palaces” sprang up in the 1910s, with elaborate shows combining vaudeville, newsreels and films—creating ...

The actress was in her prime during the late 1910s, the same years the memorial was under construction, and was one of the most popular and glamorous stars of the silent film era. Graffiti adorns ...

Many silent movies were printed on unstable nitrate film stock ... It was created around the war’s 50th anniversary, which was observed in the 1910s. Additionally, Francis and John Ford were ...

Zeinabu irene Davis’s 1999 feature, a century-spanning vision of two deaf Black women in Chicago, is among the greatest ...

Wherein the villain Phantom aka Erik is especially skilled at strangling people with the Punjab lasso; a looped rope, like a ...

Spring has spring and it’s a great time to check out the arts scene in the Lehigh Valley. Here’s a preview of some of this ...

Banks, a pioneering deaf theater actor, portrays both Malindy, a dressmaker in 1910, and Malaika ... Davis uses the form of early silent movies to evocative and economic effect.

Macaulay Culkin revealed at the Vanity Fair Oscars party (via Entertainment Weekly) that he cried when his younger brother ...

Long hidden graffiti scrawled on a pillar deep beneath the Lincoln Memorial may be a besotted worker’s drawing of a sexy screen siren from the silent age of film ... the late 1910s, the same ...

T.J. Duffy, a regular performer of the noontime organ concerts for many years, said during Friday’s presentation that pipe ...