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Selig presents hearts and masks Galloping Dick's waterloo, a sensational society drama taken from the famous novel by Harold MacGrath.

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Selig presents hearts and masks Galloping Dick's waterloo, a sensational society drama taken from the famous novel by Harold MacGrath.

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Summary

Motion picture poster for "Hearts and Masks" shows a man and woman in costumes, each holding a ten of hearts playing card.
"A drama in three reels."
Featuring Kathlyn Williams

Movie posters and movie theaters.

The popularity of “moving pictures” grew in the 1920s. Movie "palaces" sprang up in all major cities. For a quarter or 25 cents, Americans escaped their problems and lose themselves in another era or world. People of all ages attended the movies with far more regularity than today, often going more than once per week. By the end of the decade, weekly movie attendance swelled to 90 million people. The silent movies gave rise to the first generation of movie stars. At the end of the decade, the dominance of silent movies began to wane with the advance of sound technology.

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Date

01/01/1914
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Selig Polyscope Company, copyright claimant
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Library of Congress
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