The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies #5: The Chinese Fan
Comedy
5 / 10
January 31, 1914
0h 14m
Director: Walter Edwin
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