Lou Marcelle credited as playing...
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- Narrator: Shades of yesteryear - the Gem Picture Palace. This represents the glamour of the screen in the year 1914. It was small and unpretentious, but it gave entertainment that was precious to millions.
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- Narrator: Today, we may smile with nostalgia and gratitude at the comedy stars of yesterday, who worked so hard bringing laughter and forgetfulness to a world which will always welcome the homespun joy of such happy times and jolly moments.
- Narrator: One of the priceless jewels of early comedies was the custard pie. And here's the fearless pie hurler of all time, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. In those days, it was figured if one pie was funny, ten pies will be ten times as funny. Then came twenty pies, then forty...
- Narrator: From the ranks of the bathing girls came stars whose names will never fade from the movie hall of fame and the hearts of their audiences: Mabel Normand, Louise Fazenda, Phyllis Haver, Marie Prevost, Harriet Hammond, and here, believe it or not, is America's first glamour girl and one the loveliest, Gloria Swanson.
- Narrator: The early bathing beauty contests were unparalleled assemblies of beauty. Streets were lined for blocks and blocks. Multitudes cheered themselves hoarse for their favorites as the alluring pageant reached its feverish climax accompanied by the Keystone Band.