Julia DeKelety — Primagraf’s New Leading Lady (1914) 🇺🇸

Today the feature buyer demands just a little more than the celluloid film and the sensational paper that accompanies it; he demands that the feature must have some extraordinary drawing power and it was for that purpose that the Primagraf Film Company engaged the world famous prima donna, Julia DeKelety, who is considered one of the greatest character actresses on the European stage today.

A few years ago she played in Paris and was the rage for over three months, appearing at the leading concert and music halls.

In England she scored one of her greatest triumphs, and was persuaded to come to the United States and appear in this country.

Irving Billig, the managing director of the Primagraf Film Co., knew Miss De Kelety in Europe and when he saw her here he lost no time in getting her to sign a contract “to pose for pictures” as he put it. And today finds her one of the most talked of leads in motion pictures.

The trade and daily papers, in fact all the papers throughout the country have given her extended notice in their news columns and published her photographs, some of the papers going so far as to run her photo on the front cover of their publications. Which all goes to prove that the state right buyers are going to get the extra “drawing power” that they demand, especially when they buy Primagraf Features.

The next feature in which this star will appear will be a three-reel comedy from the pen of the well known author-director, Irving Billig, entitled, Oh! That Movie, which is now nearing completion, and will be released in about three weeks.

Frank Donovan is also with this concern, looking after the publicity end; he needs no introduction to the trade as everybody knows him.

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Plans Ready for Bids.

The plans of the motion picture theater to be built on an 18,000 foot site in one of the suburbs of Boston by the Littlefield Trust of 26 Boston Fruit & Produce Exchange, Boston, Mass., are now ready for bids. The structure is to be built of brick and stone and will be one of the finest picture houses in the suburb in which it is to be built.

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Scene from “A Fallen Idol” (Gt. Northern Preferred).

Collection: Moving Picture World, May 1914

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see also Wilfred Buckland — Getting Belasco Atmosphere (1914)