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

14m
Comedy
5

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.

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
Charles Sutton
James Bolliver
Florence Coventry
Mrs. Winslow
Robert Brower
Director of Union Realty
Harry B. Eytinge
Clerk
Bessie Learn
Muriel Armstrong
Harry Linson
Mr. Linson
Cora Williams
Mrs. Williams
Robert Harvey
Rockwell Crosby, Managing Editor

Crew

Walter Edwin
Director

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