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B. A. Rolfe
Benjamin Albert Rolfe (October 24, 1879 – April 23, 1956) was an American musician known as "The Boy Trumpet Wonder" who went on to be a bandleader, recording artist, radio personality, and film producer. Biography He was born on October 24, 1879, in Brasher Falls, New York, the son of Albert Rolfe, founder of one of the first dance orchestras in the United States. At 8 years of age he played the piccolo and cornet in his father's band, touring the U.S. east coast and Europe. After high school, he worked as a musical clown in a traveling circus until joining the Majestic Theater Orchestra in Utica, New York. At the Utica Conservatory of Music he was head of the brass instrument department. Drawn back to show business in the early part of the 20th century, he worked in vaudeville, producing a revue and serving as bandleader. In 1914, Rolfe turned his talents to the fledgling motion picture business, establishing his own production company, Rolfe Photoplays Inc. Althoug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brasher Falls, New York
Brasher Falls is the largest hamlet (New York), hamlet and a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Brasher, New York, Brasher in St. Lawrence County, New York, St. Lawrence County, New York (state), New York, United States. As of the 2010 United States census, 2010 census, it had a population of 669. The community is in northeastern St. Lawrence County, in the southwestern corner of the town of Brasher. It is bordered to the west by Winthrop, New York, Winthrop in the town of Stockholm, New York, Stockholm, and to the south by the town of Lawrence, St. Lawrence County, New York, Lawrence. It sits on both sides of the St. Regis River, which drops in elevation through the hamlet, on its way north to join the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada. New York State Route 11C runs through Brasher Falls, leading southwest through Winthrop to U.S. Route 11 in New York, U.S. Route 11 in Stockholm Center, and east and south to rejoin Route 11 at Coteys Corner in Lawrence. Massena (v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dyreda Art Film Company
Dyreda Art Film Corporation, also known as Dyreda Films, was a silent film production company in the U.S. Its productions included films about the World War I. It was bought out by B. A. Rolfe in 1915. Dyreda was formed by Frank L. Dyer, , J. Parker Read, Jr., and J. Searle Dawley. Dawley wrote and directed the studio's first two films. He worked at Famous Players before Dyreda. The Reliance Company studios in Yonkers, New York were used for filming and Irvin Willat headed the camera department. Robert Nicholls was in charge of stage carpentry. Robert Broderick (actor) had leading roles in a couple of the company's films. Filmography *'' One of Millions'' (1914) *'' In the Name of the Prince of Peace'' *'' Four Feathers'' (1915) *''Always in the Way ''Always in the Way'' is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by J. Searle Dawley and starring Mary Miles Minter. The film, which was inspired by the song of the same name by Charles K. Harris, was partially filmed in the Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadway (Manhattan)
Broadway () is a road in the U.S. state of New York. Broadway runs from State Street at Bowling Green for through the borough of Manhattan and through the Bronx, exiting north from New York City to run an additional through the Westchester County municipalities of Yonkers, Hastings-On-Hudson, Dobbs Ferry, Irvington, and Tarrytown, and terminating north of Sleepy Hollow.There are four other streets named "Broadway" in New York City's remaining three boroughs: one each in Brooklyn ( see main article) and Staten Island, and two in Queens (one running from Astoria to Elmhurst, and the other in Hamilton Beach). Each borough therefore has a street named "Broadway". See also from Forgotten NY: Broadway in the Bronx, Page 1anPage 2Broadway in Queens, Page 1anPage 2Broadway in Staten Island It is the oldest north–south main thoroughfare in New York City, with much of the current street beginning as the Wickquasgeck trail before the arrival of Europeans. This formed the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Whiteman
Paul Samuel Whiteman (March 28, 1890 – December 29, 1967) was an American bandleader, composer, orchestral director, and violinist. As the leader of one of the most popular dance bands in the United States during the 1920s and early 1930s, Whiteman produced recordings that were immensely successful, and press notices often referred to him as the "King of Jazz". His most popular recordings include "Whispering (song), Whispering", "Valencia (song), Valencia", "Three O'Clock in the Morning", "In a Little Spanish Town", and "The Parade of the Tin Soldiers, Parade of the Wooden Soldiers". Whiteman led a usually large ensemble and explored many styles of music, such as blending symphonic music and jazz, as in his debut of ''Rhapsody in Blue'' by George Gershwin. Whiteman recorded many jazz and pop standards during his career, including "Wang Wang Blues", "Mississippi Mud", "Rhapsody in Blue", "Wonderful One", "Hot Lips, Hot Lips (He's Got Hot Lips When He Plays Jazz)", "Mississippi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Lopez
Vincent Lopez (December 30, 1895 – September 20, 1975) was an American bandleader, actor, and pianist. Early life and career Vincent Lopez was born of Portuguese immigrant parents in Brooklyn, New York City, United States, Distinguished Americans & Canadians of Portuguese Descent and was leading his own dance band in New York City by 1916. On November 27, 1921, his band began broadcasting on the new medium of entertainment radio; the band's weekly 90-minute show on the Newark, New Jersey, station WJZ boosted the popularity of both himself and of radio. He became one of America's most popular bandleaders, and would retain that status through the 1940s. Lopez saw jazz and bandleading as a big business opportunity. Like rival Paul Whiteman had done a few years earlier with his United Orchestras, Inc, in 1924, he created the company Vincent Lopez, Inc, with a stated goal of starting jazz orchestras and schools in major American cities, and managing copyrights. By 1926 the ende ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ziegfeld Follies
The ''Ziegfeld Follies'' was a series of elaborate theatrical revue productions on Broadway in New York City from 1907 to 1931, with renewals in 1934 and 1936. They became a radio program in 1932 and 1936 as ''The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air''. Founding and history Inspired by the Folies Bergère of Paris, the Ziegfeld Follies were conceived and mounted by Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., reportedly at the suggestion of his then-wife, the stage actress and singer Anna Held. The shows' producers were turn-of-the-twentieth-century producing titans Klaw and Erlanger. The Follies were a series of lavish revues, something between later Broadway shows and the more elaborate high class vaudeville and variety show. The first follies, '' The Follies of 1907'', was produced that year at the ''Jardin de Paris'' roof theatre. During the Follies era, many of the top entertainers, including W. C. Fields, Eddie Cantor, Josephine Baker, Fanny Brice, Ann Pennington, Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana Allen
Diana Allen (1898 – June 12, 1949) was a Swedish-American actress and Ziegfeld girl who starred in silent films such as 1921's ''Miss 139'',Wollstein, Henry JStrangers in Hollywood: the History of Scandinavian Actors in American Films from 1910 to World War II(1994) which is now lost. Biography Allen was born in Gotland, Sweden, in 1898 and came to the United States at the age of 5. While a high school student in New Haven, Connecticut, she began to perform with Eddie Wittstein.(20 June 1924)He's a Star Maker ''Danville Bee'' Her stage debut was in a vaudeville act called "Girls' Gamble" with Ned Wayburn. She later appeared in '' Miss 1917'', the ''Ziegfeld Follies'' (1917–18), and ''Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolic''.''Motion Pictures Studio Directory and Trade Annual'' (1921), p. 209 ("b. Gotland, Sweden; educ. New Haven, Conn.; stage career, "Follies," 1917–18; "The Frolic," 1919, "Miss 1917"; screen career ...... Hght., 5, 3; wght., 115; blond hair, blue eyes.") Allen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss 139
''Miss 139'' is a 1921 American silent crime drama film produced by A. H. Fischer and distributed by Jans Film Service and Sherman Productions Corporation. B. A. Rolfe was the director and Charles A. Logue wrote the story and the screenplay. Its Swedish-born star Diana Allen had been a Ziegfeld girl.The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: ''Miss 139'' Retrieved July 29, 2015 The film is now . [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Man And Woman (film)
''Man and Woman'' is a 1920 American silent drama film produced by A. H. Fischer, Inc. Directors were Charles Logue and B. A. Rolfe with Gene O'Donnell and Conrad Wells (as A. Fried) as cinematographers. Logue wrote the story and the screenplay. Plot A young Civil engineer builds a bridge that later collapses which causes him to mentally collapse. He retreats to a South Pacific Ocean island and becomes a beachcomber. Later one of his former engineering supervisors comes to the island with his daughter to repair a lighthouse. She bets the local Governor that she can dress up a beach bum to pass as a society swell. She picks the young former engineer. He decides to teach her a lesson and takes her to a leprosy colony where she is "treated like dirt". She learns her lesson and her father gives him a job at the lighthouse. Cast * Diana Allen as Diana Murdock * Joe King as Joe * Eddie Sturgis as The Flash * John L. Shine as Greasy * Tatjana Irrah as The Duchess * Eleanor Cozza ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Even As Eve
''Even as Eve'' is a 1920 American silent drama film by A. H. Fischer Features and distributed by Associated First National Pictures. Produced by B. A. Rolfe, the film was directed by Rolfe and Chester De Vonde, with Arthur A. Cadwell and Conrad Wells (as A. Fried) as cinematographers. It was filmed at the former Thanhouser Company studios in New Rochelle, New York. Some exterior scenes were filmed in the New York Adirondack Mountains and on a Long Island estate. It was based on the short story "The Shining Band" by Robert W. Chambers Robert William Chambers (May 26, 1865 – December 16, 1933) was an American artist and fiction writer, best known for his book of short stories titled '' The King in Yellow'', published in 1895. Life Chambers was born in Brooklyn, New York, t ..., and adapted by Charles Logue. Plot Eileen O'Hara lives with her father as members of a religious cult known as The Shining Band in a compound in the Adirondack Mountains. Her mother's infid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metro Pictures
Metro Pictures Corporation was a motion picture production company founded in early 1915 in Jacksonville, Florida. It was a forerunner of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The company produced its films in New York, Los Angeles, and sometimes at leased facilities in Fort Lee, New Jersey. It was purchased in 1919. History Metro Pictures was founded as a film distribution company in February 1915 by a number of "exchange men" with Richard A. Rowland as president, George Grombacher as vice-president and Louis B. Mayer as secretary. Grombacher owned exchanges in Portland and Seattle. Rowland and Metro's 2nd vice president James B. Clark were from the Roland & Clark company based in Pittsburgh. Metro was capitalized with $300,000 in cash and founded for the purpose of controlling movie productions for the exchanges. Rowland had been an investor in Alco Films which was a distribution company for a coalition of production companies. Mayer convinced Rowland to set up Metro to replace Alco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
