evening Lodger Amusement Section, Saturday, October , 192S .jLtie PERSONAL SIDE OF PHOTOPLAY LAND danger and daring in film: acting 'M What. Some of the Players Are Doing When Not on the Screen Sofle t Ike Bir-1 cpe mm! Aihriitwrc Tilm yiayera i Maat1 MBiMBWBBBWBWBBBWBWMHBIWBWBSHHBWWWBWHBEBgtfB'''-'' HffiOffMMS553BWF?)l - .,u,t.ull. jjwgjjii'jauJiiTi ii i in ii 1 1 -- iriw vt Since taking part In ''Diana of the Farm," Ethel Teare has come Into pos session of a new mascot. His name is "Murphy," and he Is a two-weeks old pis. As can be seenty its title, the action of the new Kalem comedy Is laid in the country. Descending upon a farm or ranch, as the Californians prefer to call country property from an eight-acre up the Kalem players temporarily borrowed It. Among the very first things Miss Teare laid eyes upon was a litter of pigs. The rancher was a gallant individual and when he saw Miss Teare regarding the little pigs with longing eyes, he promptly offered to present her with one of them. Snapping the ofTer up the come dienne selected a tiny black pig. Bud Duncan, who was standing by, christened the new addition to the Kalem comedy fold "Murphy." and the name has stuck Miss Teare has great hopes for Murphy as a comedy star. Although he evinces a most hoggish appetite and prefers eat ing and sleeping to any other pursuits. Murphy. If he fails to shine as a comedy star, won't do so for lack of expert coach ing. Bud has appointed himself instruct-or-ln-chlef and Is spending his spare time in teaching Miss Teare's protege the fine points of the laugh-creating business. An enterprising Joker connected with the Vltagraph Stock Company has been playing a prank on the new members of the working force by sending the inno rmtn on a hunt for a fllm stretcher. One or the seekers for this elusive article 1 was seen beating a hasty retreat from the office of Mr. Mcintosh, head of the negative department. One of the more adventurous even sought a fllm stretcher In the office of the Vltagraph heads, but a Jump from a second-story window ap prised him of the fact there was no such article. David Thompson, assistant to Clwirles Horan. of the Rolfe-Metro staff of di rectors, bears proudly his two new hon ors. He was recently elected granJ" ex alted ntler by the lodge of Elks In his home town of New Rochelle and a few days later Mrs. Thompson presented him with an addition to the family. Mabel Normand. featured Keystone star, who recently passed the crisis of an Illness that very near had a fatal ter mination, has fully recovered and is up and about again. She will take a rest of several weeks, however, before resuming work. Ruth Storehouse. Essanay leading woman, has returned from. Elkhart, Ind.. her old home, where she went a few days ago to act as godmother to Alice Jane Webb, bom to Dr. and Mrs. Basil Webb. Olga Grey was recently taken ill with pneumonia, but Is gradually recovering. ? - - v5 t i. v v rtjc "", a y '' 4 . a Jnnnnnnnv"aaaaaaaatau "aanfal faaaanV tg" i. -y.. - t j x. "":., "&V i, k JsaBaBaaaBaBaBaBaBaBaaH ;3oaBV K " 4 .aaaaafilTaaBaBaBaBaBaBaBaBaBaBaBnvB -frB "N XC fBBAaLnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnK&X aV Qaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanai. s &'V . ju. . A .. aaaaa"na t ... XKtfi .fis?4 smf v ,""BTB"fj"" - . wfgMFBm i i v . - '- v v $ iaL2aannnnbaaal " Ja -v V- SS "V " ' ii;Jgam-naaaaaaaaaaaaaW RAYMOND HITCHCOCK AT EASE This is how the popular comedian, now in Philadelphia for LbMb's, used to spend his vacation before the movies came. IDA VERNON The gracious old-time actress, now with Wm. Hodce at the Adelphi, who will "celebrate in Philadelphia her 70th birthday anniversary and her 58th year before the footlights. She is the oldest living actress in point of acting time. She made her debut in Boston in 1857, when 12 years old, as one of the little fairies in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," at the old Boston Theatre. TYPEWRITTEN INTO FAME 3 She typewrote herself Into the theat rical profession; rose to the top by the shorthand method, as it were. That is the manner in which one may define the many sided career of Miss Zelda Sears, who plays one of the principal roles in Mr. James Forbes comedy, "The Show Shop." now bound for Philadelphia. Miss Sears stcno graphic book is laid away on the shelf, to be sure, but it was her medium of get ting good positions on the stage. Miss Sears told all about It to a reporter the other day. She ZBUA SEARS and Mr. Forbes, author of U play, grew up together as boy and girl in X3iicao, and they call each other by their flrst names. And fate has brougfet them to gether after many years as anther anl actress. "We weren't very o!d when we started to take an interest in dramatic affairs," said Miss Sears. "To tell a secret, we both Mr. Forbes and myself made our first stage appearance together. We ap plied for positions as "supers' when Mme. Sarah Bernhardt came t "hlcage on one or the first series of -fare well tours. For & week we appared in her company In thinking roles. If I re member correctly. CamMe' was her prin cipal production during the week, and night after night Mr. Forbes and I ap peared in the gaming scene, acting like real plungers with thousands of francs In our hands, whereas, if the truth were told, all we had perhaps was carfare home on the Pottage Grove avenue cable." Miss Sears said she knew right then that Mr. Forbes would become a great dramatist some day. and she. herself, an actress, because Mme. Bernhardt once smiled when they chorused: "Vive la France! Vive la Francer with tremendous theatrical effect. The ambition to become an actress didn't leave her. Miss Sears said, even when she was society reporter on a news paper in Port Huron. Mich. That experi ence really contributed a great deal to her eventual success in New York because as a reporter she learned stenography. "Instead of diving madly Into the theat rical profession, elevating the drama at every opportunity," continued Miss Sears, "I came to New York, studied the situa tion carefully from my own point of view, concluded that the only way of reaching a place of prominence was through consecutive Broadway engage ments, and then, with this scheme of operation marked out, I began my cam paign. "I opened a stenographic office In the building at the northeast corner of Broad way and Hh street and painted my name on the door thus: 'Z. Sears. Stenographer.' You know, I always thought that name was very good for business. Think of it, Z. Sears. Sounds businesslike, doesn't it? "It was very soon, comparatively, when I was asked frequently to type play For fhre rear I played goblin, thosU and giants on the legitimate stage. New I do 'em all in the sane day. The pic ture are certainly great school for versatility, particularly U tk actor has the rlcht sort of direction. Major Daniel CUfcthtr. manuscripts. I became intimately ac quainted with many authors, chief of whom was the late Clyde Fitch, for whom I did stenographic work for several years. As a result of these acquaintances I ob tained my opportunity to appear In tie Broadway theatres. ard for several yean I continued my typewriting oMce in tn day and acted every evening-. "I used to amuse myself with the thought that it was a sort of femislne Jekyll and Hyde existence. , I kept the two identities absolutely laeavUual oe much to that I recall one that a. young woman In my offlce saw me play one night and asked me the following morn ing if I cad a sister on the stage, be cause she had seen some one wk looked exactly like roe. Even after I had many good roles in some of the Clyde FRca -plays and with Francis WBsesr. I esty ttuued with my stenographic oMo. Mr. Fitch once toM me that any one why had Imagination enough to read hia handwrit ing had Imagination enough to be a Dose. And he really wrote the worst haad I have ever seen. "So I really shorthanded myself fata very good roles." concluded the actros. "I made It a rule for a long time sever to leave New York after the Broadway engagement of & play until I appeared nt Truth.' when I went en tour with that company. Later I played In Mr. Fitch's comedy, 'Girls. and since then I haven't had to use the typewriter." Brother to a Stage Judge The production next season of a new play by George Kelly will place the name of this young Phlladelphiari among- the list of America's youngest authors. For the last four or five years Mr. Kelly's theatrical career has been confined ta the stage, his work In "The Virginian" as the successor of Eustin Famam. ia the principal role in "The Common Law" and other well-known legitimate pieces being a matter of theatrical history. Mr. Kelly, however. ha aspired to fame as a writer and is the author C several plays and sketches, and ha re cently finished a play which waa ac cepted for production by the late Paul Armstrong. Since the death of the tat ter Mr. Kelly's play has been turned over to a well-known firm of producers and Is listed for presentation early next season. Mr. Kelly Is now In vaudeville, and appears in the principal role of Paul Armstrong's one-act satire. "TVoasan Proposes," at B. F. Keith's Theatre next week, Mr. Kelly Is a Philadelphia!!, being a brother of Walter C. Kelly. "The Vir ginia Judge." a popular vaudeville head line. Another brother la Jack Kelly, the Vesper Club's champion oarsman, while a third brother is me weii-anown -mia-delphla contractor, P. H. Kelly. George Is the second youngest of the family of k, nnA wu educated in this city, being a scholar at the Forrest School in Bst Fans. He took a five years- course as a m,h9Tiil dranehtsman at Pencoyd, but the stage proved too much of an attrac tion for Mm. ...... Mr. Kelly was a member of the LncUam School of Acting in this city, operated a school of elocution at East Falls himself and spent all of his spare time ba study ing Shakespeare and writing sketches and verse. It was not long after he had won considerable success as an amateur that he tnrned his attention to the professional Lstage and his climb was so rapid that hs was cnosen 10 succeea uunm runun In "The Virginian." Since then he has appeared in several pieces with unusual success, but his ambition to become 4 successful playwright has never lessened, and now the presentation of hit Ant star Is assured. The Sheriffs of the vidaky of Santa Barhara, Cat. are savior their money to buy a gold medal. "To Anm Little, for Bravery and Courage," will be engraved upon It. and that to because Miss Ansa Little, the petite little star of Mutual (Mustang) pictures, last week trailed a horse thief and cornered Mas so that the. Sheriff could catch him. One of Miss Little's three horsen was stolen. It was -Nancy," her white trlc hcrsv. which Miss Little ha ewned for several years, and which she has taught i-. j. . .-iR.n a v4Jfcs MVsnr" has a pecaMor way of setting sw her pretty feet, so that M'as, LMti has al ways raid she ceM trail or lt any place over a lightly traveled rend,, When the actress discovered that "Ney" was gone, instead of stttlnc down and moping, she jamped on another hone ad went out with th Sheriff. She hit off a read oy herself; after riding a long time she discovered that there was a little- nar row path, almost overgrown with weeds, next to the road. She crooned through the deep grass to It and found the Im prints of a horse hoofs. 8Jie felt certain that they were "Nancy" She rode nstll she came upaa an aM fM-d-dew barn yard, into which the hefs tnwud. SIM dismounted., and steed hMntot nidi the road until the Sheriff came, with the re volver which she had beea dves sandal permission to ae drawn t are at any one who ahetdd attempt j )oav the yard. Sure enooh "Naaey was Xoattd. ia the jMXStQb Buq EBff Ji'BVSCSM'BC " Charles Itertleet. dirrttw a.' Mm Amer ican Santa Bartow, jtto Maaj, and ans cam era tnaa. Tom MiHiilssy had a. ssurw eacafre trim death last weehr Mk pros peewHtT far- loeaUons for a faitwuiiliig pietare. ta he caked "Billing." tfcm for his . virHe iwintuMias had started across the Santa China, Hirer near San. Farte, aad white dkrec tieaa te an asalatant was st-eMewtr oaagfct In qoieksand. Stowty. MC star-sty., Director Bartlett hegaa t stale aad iisgWi his every rtfert he eaoM net vet awt thw treachereas sand. Cameraman MftldHuu harried t tM aid. of hla dbveter aad eary if the WsWnWWjB, VbMK Irff CWMal eMM IH Ofe UnCTSCM? SaanflMn 1 MtasrMHy U 1 VJWftW VSvTtMwS Ra iag saada pwltef Behead has i Ma srotrtanto awaac Ms a sea which had been made faat aver the pasjtmlun; ktaa of a, stoat syesjaaee tree. Jm WWWVB wC vtatdat was hatatad eJearefi ha reaeaed the river saaa. 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