I had a heart attack several years ago so we called in sick from the church library to day for a pastrami and cheese here in Cambridge rather than our weekly Sunday on Boston Common. (To be honest, for a year or so we would vist West Concord- by the Ocean Spray headquarters there's a neat path through the woods to the Assabet river, but not really Lexington-Concord together yet... optimistically, its a new Space Age and I'm from Massachusetts; Donna's from New Jersey.) These are from a Houghton-Mifflin 1907 volume; for a while in high school I was a collector, which essentially, roundaboutly, at first brought me to Cambridge. There was something inspirational that our church bought the office next door that housed Little and Brown- so I had a period of collecting them during Modern Times. Again, we became the tallest church spire in America after competing with the Old North Church, which was in 1809. Our apartment in Cambridge is in a section of Cambridge which was active during the Revolutionary War. This is The Old North Church in Boston with Donna sitting nect to me. If you are writing a book titled something like The Art of the Revolutionary War may I send you my best- history can quickly become art history. These are from Paul Revere's Engravings, which I found first and need time to look at. Scott Lord

During 1921 Wallace Worsley directed Lon Chaney with actress Leatrice Joy. "The Ace of Hearts" was photographed by cameraman Don Short.
Lon Chaney appeared in two six reels films during 1921, both presumed to be lost silent film with no existing known copies, "For Those We Love", directed by Arthur Rossen and starring Betty Compson, and "Bits of Life", directed by Marshall Neilan and starring Anna May Wong.
"For Those We Love" was reviewed during 1921 in Wid's Daily. "Once more Betty Compson and Lon Chaney play opposite each other. While the parts they create are entirely different from those in 'The Miracle Man', the heart appeal is quite similar....Each character has been given plenty of room for development and each at one time or another, is allowed to hold the center of the stage."

"Bits of Life", a Lost Silent Film directed by Marshall Neilan in 1921 is a Quartet with Lon Chaney in a tragic chinese story about a man and his first born daughter. The periodical Wid's Daily reviewed the film as being part of a letter signed by the director explaining the film's narrative structure. "Marshall Neilan has given a novelty to the screen in 'Bits of Life' which might well proove the forerunner of more entertainment of this description. He has taken four short stories and by very cleverly tying the together has given an excellant piece of screen entertainment....All the stories are different. They have no relation whatsoever to each other....Very interesting novelty, which,while episodic, proves very fine screen material."

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As a way of further introducing Silent Film director Maurice Tourner to American readers, the periodical Motional Picture News during 1919 announced in effect that 'the imported director would be exported' and while expaining transnational cinema as a historical document in regard to historiography within extratextural duscourse announced "Tourneur Productions to be shown in Belgium". Film houses would be showing the films "The Bluebird", "Prunella", "A Poor Little Rich Girl", "Trilby" and the "Rise of Jenny Craig". It stressed that "The Bluebird" was written written by Maurice Maeterlink, a Belgian playwright of world renown". The San Francisco Silent Film Festival has credited Maeterlink as having belonged to the French Symbolist literary movement. The Festival is preserving the film "White Heather", also directed by Maurice Tourneur during 1919 and previously considered to be a Lost Silent Film. The film stars actress Mabel Ballin. Silent Film

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