movies
The Mad Gasser of Fullerton Strikes Again!
Submitted by nathan on Sun, 2007-07-01 00:49.
June 30, 1927
Fullerton
Two members of the Ralph Ince Film Company returned to the California Hotel in Fullerton 'round midnight tonight to find their fearless leader, Ralph Ince, semiconscious and supine upon the floor. Nipping the ol’ Hollywood joy juice down in Valenciaville, eh, Ralphie?
Why, no! He’s been the victim of the Mad Gasser of Fullerton! Hotel resident Carl Breusch said he'd seen a man skulking about the corridor, carrying a can, and that said can-carrier leapt out of a window when approached. Guests Charles Scott and Charles McMaster were awakened in their respective bedrooms by the odor of the anesthetic solvent and then espied through their windows a shadowy figure running down the street.
Though the papers reported Alois Sabinski's recent battle with chloroform in his Nicholas Street home, California Hotel lessee Ellen Lincoln declared she'd heard nothing about any “chloroform burglar;” Fullerton Chief of Police T. K. Winter said, ahem, reports regarding any such character have been greatly exaggerated.
In any event, Ince has departed for his company’s location in Santa Ana Canyon, and can not be reached for comment.
She Threw Herself Into the Part
Submitted by nathan on Sun, 2007-06-24 20:42. 
June 24, 1927
Hollywood
Yeah, she threw herself into the part. She could throw a mean left cross too, apparently. In fact she went so nuts she broke several straw hats and mussed up the hair of several spectators and managed to bust the nose, teeth, and blacken the eye of some ponce named Basil Webb.
She is Eileen Sedgwick, and she was portraying an excited Swedish servant girl, cheering the home town team in Metro’s Slide, Kelly, Slide. And now she stands shoulder to shoulder to shoulder with Metro and the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company, as Basil bemoans his condition before Referee Crowell of the State Industrial Accident Commission.
We are beguiled by the fetching Ms. Sedgwick! Mr. Webb should consider himself lucky to have be walloped by so charming a creature.
Acrobats
Submitted by larry on Tue, 2006-03-21 14:58.
Americans at the turn of the century lacked many things, but they had some amazing live entertainment. Here's a snip of a performance courtesy of Edison Studios, 1904. These guys rock. I have watched them dozens of times now and I still find them amazing.
Enjoy!
