Via Wireless

The silent film adaptation of Via Wireless—a Broadway melodrama about the battle for the rights to a new, large-caliber, naval-gun contract—is updated as a call for American preparedness after the outbreak of World War I.

Paul Armstrong (1869-1915), born in Missouri, worked steam ships on the Great Lakes in the 1890s before becoming a playwright. He died in New York. Winchell Smith (1871-1933) was an actor, director, and playwright from Connecticut. He was the grandnephew of John Brown, the slavery abolitionist.

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