Harry O. Schwalbe

First National Pictures Secretary Harry O. Schwalbe, Mary Pickford dressed for her role in the film Daddy-Long-Legs (1919), and Mary's mother Charlotte Hennessey.

Harry Otto Schwalbe (February 8, 1874[1] - 1935[2]) was Secretary and Treasurer of First National Pictures, Inc., until he tendered his resignation at the end of the fiscal year in April 1925.[3] According to a New York Clipper article dated July 21, 1920, Schwalbe and his partner E.S. O'Keefe purchased the City Theatre in Atlantic City for a reported sum of $200,000.[4] On April 14, 1921, Schwalbe completed the purchase of the Keystone hotel property in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, with the intention of razing the buildings on that property to develop a modern motion picture theatre that would seat 1,200.[5]

References

  1. ↑ World War 1 Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, Ancestry.com
  2. ↑ http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=91216564
  3. ↑ http://issuu.com/boxoffice/docs/boxoffice_020725
  4. ↑ http://www.fultonhistory.com/Process%20small/Newspapers/New%20York%20NY%20Clipper%201853%20-%201924/New%20York%20NY%20Clipper%201920-1921%20pdf/New%20York%20NY%20Clipper%201920-1921%20-%200855.pdf
  5. ↑ http://contentdm1.accesspa.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/pcofl-creco/id/14391/rec/20
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