The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies #5: The Chinese Fan 1914

An early Thomas Edison short. A young woman is kidnapped while attending a play in Chinatown. A reporter attends another play in Chinatown, is likewise kidnapped and rescues the young woman. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011 in partnership with the National Film Preservation Foundation New Zealand Project.

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The cast

Yale Boss Daddy, the office boy

Edward Boulden A reporter

Mary Fuller Dolly Desmond

Charles Ogle James Malone

Warren Cook Mr. Cambridge

Miriam Nesbitt Mrs. Cambridge

C

Charles Sutton James Bolliver

F

Florence Coventry Mrs. Winslow

Robert Brower Director of Union Realty

H

Harry B. Eytinge Clerk

Bessie Learn Muriel Armstrong

Harry Linson Mr. Linson

Cora Williams Mrs. Williams

R

Robert Harvey Rockwell Crosby, Managing Editor

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