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Auction History Result 3x848 THAIS 4 8x10 LCs 1917 pretty Mary Garden wearing a wonderful gown and color images! Date Sold 2/10/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. 4 Original Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10" [20 x 25 cm] Movie Lobby Card (Learn More) Thais, the 1917 Hugo Ballin & Frank Hall Crane silent Ancient Egypt romantic religious Christian melodrama ("Is she beautiful? Does she wear wonderful gowns? Is 'Thais' a sensational production? Will everyone be 'just crazy' about Mary Garden?"; "'Thais' is a picture of a thousand surprises"; a wild story of a beautiful courtesan in Ancient Egypt, and a wealthy man who falls madly in love with her; but when he is leaving her, he is attacked by one of her other lovers, and he kills the man, which makes him so sad that he goes out into the desert and joins a Christian colony, where he becomes a holy man; he feels that God wants him to also convert his former lover, and he actually manages to convince her to renounce her evil ways and go into the desert with him, where she becomes a nun and they are happy for a while; but she misses her glamorous former life, and she goes into the desert alone to return, and the other nuns go after her and find her and bring her back; but she is dying, and her boyfriend realizes he has sinned by taking her from her life and he prays to God as she dies) starring Mary Garden (in the title role as Thais), Hamilton Revelle, Crauford Kent, Lionel Adams, and Alice Chapin Important Added Info: Note that, in the early days of movie making, when lobby cards were first made (around 1915), studios would issue sets of the cards in two sizes; the regular 11" x 14" size, and a smaller 8" x 10" size. The cards were identical in every way except for the different size. This practice continued through the early 1920s, at which point the studios abandoned the smaller lobby cards, likely because theaters either ordered 11" x 14" lobby cards or 8" x 10" stills, and did not order enough of the 8" x 10" lobby cards to justify them continuing to make them. Condition: good to very good. The cards have some pinholes around the edges and a few smudges, but overall, especially given that they are over 100 hundred years old they are in pretty nice condition. Learn More about condition grades 
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