Rags - Stanley Theatre (Philadelphia) Program 1915

4-page Stanley Theatre program for the week beginning Monday, August 2, 1915. The big features were Mary's wonderful Rags (1915, James Kirkwood) and Pauline Frederick's lost film Sold (1915.) Also briefly mentions The Foundling (1915) and Madame Butterfly (1915) as coming features.

Mary Pickford Tobacco / Cigarette / Chocolate / Theatre / Trading Cards

Many moons ago, one could acquire these small cards (tobacco cards, cigarette cards, chocolate cards, theatre cards, trading cards, etc.,) not more than a few inches in size, in a pack of cigarettes, from a machine at the arcade, as a hand out at the local theatre, or via some other means. Some were printed while a good many are actual photographs.

Issued in 1913, this Major Drapkin & Co. Cinematograph Actors series card shows Mary during her IMP days and is reportedly the first tobacco card she appears on (or at least, one of, as this particular series had two unnumbered Pickford cards, the other being marked Biograph.)

The cards below, some of which have been trimmed, were gifted from the Pamela Short Collection.

Chocolate E. Juncosa card from Spain. Photo by Melbourne Spurr.

Kinema  / Franklin Theatre Card. Trimmed. Advertising Captain Kidd Jr. screening. Photo by Hartsook. 1919.

Photo by Hartsook. Trimmed.

Sequoia Theatre card. According to the inscription on a music box given to Mary by her then husband Douglas Fairbanks in 1930, this portrait by Hartsook was his favorite photo of her. Trimmed.

Photo by Hartsook.

Kinema Theatre card.  Trimmed. Advertising a M'Liss screening. Photo by Hartsook. 1918. 

Photo by Hartsook (showing Mary at her one-time leased home (1917-1918) at 1519 N. Western in Hollywood.) Trimmed.

Photo, often used in Artcraft advertising, by Campbell Studio.

Photo by Moody.  Trimmed.

1931 Penny Magazine (England) card. Photo by Campbell Studio.

The New T & D Theatre card. Trimmed. Advertising A Romance of the Redwoods. 1917.

Cinema Stars cigarette card. Photo by Campbell Studios.

Ringers Cigarettes Cinema Stars card. Photo of Mary in a Lanvin dress by Rahmn. c. 1921.

The New T & D Theatre card. Trimmed. Advertising Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. 1917.

Kinema card. Trimmed.  Advertising, erroneously, Good Little Rich Girl, A.K.A. The Poor Little Rich Girl. 1917.

The New T & D Theatre card. Advertising A Little Princess. 1917.

Mary Pickford as Rags card. Photo by De Gaston.

T & D Theatre card. Advertising Hulda from Holland. 1916. 

Kinema / Franklin Theatre card. Trimmed. Adevertising a Johanna Enlists screening. 1918.

The Spinet House - Spinet Cigarettes card. Photo by Lindstedt.

Kinema card. Mary Pickford, dressed as Rebecca From Sunnybrook Farm, and William S. Hart. Trimmed. Advertising a The Little American screening. 1917.

De Reszke (England) cigarette card. 

Lambert & Butler (England) cigarette card. Late '20s.

Salem Cigarettenfabrik (Germany.) 1931. Photo by Hesser.

Omega Cigarette Factory card. Photo by G.L. Manuel Freres.

JOB Cigarette card. Photo by Melbourne Spurr.

Mary Pickford with Rabbit - Photo - DeGaston - 1915

Mary Pickford posing with a rabbit among flowers and a giant Marceau-inspired copyright C. Photo by DeGaston, a photographer whose history remains somewhat of a mystery. In any event, the only other tie to Mary that I have have ever found besides one other similar portrait, albeit sans rabbit, is that DeGaston  took those posed photos of Mary as Rags in 1915 -- one of which is featured on this small card. 1915. Part of NZ Photo Album.

The Review - Magazine - September 1915

September 1915 issue of The Review -- the house organ of Famous Players Film Company / Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company in the UK. The editor was H. W. Prockter, who incidentally edited The Film Life of Mary Pickford booklet issued by J. D. Walker's World's Film. Not surprisingly, Mary Pickford is all over the issue with variety of mentions including write-ups about Little Pal (1915,) Rags (1915.) As an added bonus, a very nice 2-color, 2-page centerfold ad for Rags. While The Review was geared towards those in the trade, according to November 11, 1915 issue of The Cinema that because of demand, it was ultimately released for general consumption. Gifted from the Pamela Short Collection.