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

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.

Comedy

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)