Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 10, 1923, Page 4

Ot or ecae cere A : * ‘ | Pee cell an old axiom that f takes i people who have had expert- ‘ences to portray life, Perhaps that's why {t is that when you dig down into the Itves of those who entertain by their work on the scteen, you find that to them have happened many things not given to Dersons whose careers have been set in more prosaic roles, Let's take @ typical production as an instance, Let's take “To Have ana To Hold,” produced by Georgs Fitemaurice for Paramount end fea- wanderlust, he felt the lure of far countries ané alien strands. His fa- ther wouldn’t let him go into the chant of textiles, jutes, eto. Indial What an inspiration !t was to the young Frenchman! It’s bizarre col- ors inspired him to paint, a thing of which he had always been fond. On MMs father’s death he returned to France and eventually came to America, With such # background, what more natural thing than that he should engage fn motion pictures, where knowledge of life is so easen- tml? Pineky Yttfle Betty. Anf@ pretty Betty Compson. You wouldn't think that sweet face had ever known the pinch of poverty, the hollows of tragedy, now would you? and yet it wasn’t so many years ago that little Betty’s father died, pen- niless, and the child aided to keep together the souls and bodies of her- self and her mother by playing the violin in the orchestra of the Mission Theater at Salt Lake. There was that time, later, when the then yau- deville player, stranded in San Fran- cisco, for two months worked as a domestic servant, as a nurse girl in a wealthy home, in order to earn enough money to get back to her mother in Salt Lake, And there was that still later time when Betty lost her job tn comedies—and for three months was without funds. One night she and her mother didn’t have enough to buy dinger—and then Betty found a $10 gold piece in the gutter! This bought food—and three days later she got the position which led to “The Miracle Man”— and stardom. Theodore Kosloff? Naturally aman who danced before kings would have something of interest to add to this tale. At eight he entered the Im- Corde Fitzmaurice perfal Ballet School. Fellow pupils were Mordkin, Nijinsky and Pavlowa. It was only recently that he recetved word that the Moskow bolsheviks had returned $50,000 worth of jewels stolen from his safety deposit box in 1914. Included were a gold watch with the Russian eagles and rare moonstone cuff-links from Czar Nicholas, silver plate for twenty-four from Grand Duke Vladimir; ruby stickpin from Grand Duke Sergius, and emerald cuff links from Lady Evelyn Guiness. It wasn’t an easy road, that of Kosloff’s to the heights Young Canadian Girl to Fore cute, that's Pauline Garon, the latest meteor of the film who has sprung into famo since her recent choice by Cecil B. DeMille to play one of the biggest roles in “Adam's Rib.” Little Miss Garon is a French- Canadian. Sho didn’t learn to talk English until sho was ten and still retains a decided but very pleasing French accent. She was born in Montreal, Canada, one September 9 and is of combined French and Irish parentage. Her father was Pierre, her mother Victoria. Her father was employed in the postal service and later entered the insurance business at which he attained a success, Pauline was sent to the Sacret Heart Convent in Montreal where she remained under strict discipline for seven and one-half years.. Al- ways, however, there was an urge Sc blonde, five feet one, and for expression, a desire to pour out the vivacity, the unquenchable en- thusiasm, the “pep.” to express it in a word, that is so distinctively part and parcel of this now whirlwind of the cinema, So one bright day she ran away from home. No reason at all, she just wanted to see a bit of the world and her spirit didn't reck of the dif- ficulties attendant on a young girl traveling alone. Anyhow that has never bothered her, as the diminu- tive Garon is a raging lion to those who give. offense. There’s a lot of fighting spirit packed in the little body. She landed at the Hotel Commo- dore, New York, took a $12 7 day room, and had $1.25 left in her purse, She blithely wired home: “Send me $50," and the next day she sallied forth to tho theatrical producers, Her beauty won her a quick job in “Lonely Romeo,” in the chorus, and for two and a half years gradually she climbed up through “Buddies,” and “Lillies of the Field.” + Then she went into pictures, start- ing with Dorothy Gish in “Remodel- ing a Husband,” in rather a minor part. When she did “The Man from Glengarry” with a Canadian com- pany. Attention focussed on her when she appeared with Owen Moore in “Reported Missing” and burst into a chorus of “Who is She?” when she scored an instantaneous success with Richard Barthelmess in “Sonny.” It was this picture, a bubbling joyful role for her, that caught the attention of Cecil B. De Mille. 3 Her rise has been sure and has taken less than four years. It's a tri- umph of personality, the appear- ance of this young Canadian me- teor. of the dancers. Broke in Barcelona, Spain—he danced for his dinner in a cafe. Five years later he danced before the king in the great opera house of that city! He knew King Edward VIL, Kerensky, Tchechov, the kaiser, the czar, Tschaikowsky, Tolstol, scores and scores of world- figures. He knows life—how the poor act, how nobles act. Naturally it was obvious that ho could interpret cor- rectly the role of the dandy and vil- lain, “Lord Carnal” in “To Have and To Hold.” A Veteran Player. And a man who saw Lincoln shot. There aro still a few who saw that cataclysm from the seats of Ford's Theater, but W. J. Ferguson alone among the living, was actually on the stage when Booth so dramatically in- terrupted the performance of “Our American Cousin.” Fifty-seven years Mr. Ferguson has been an actor. Ho is one of the Deans of the profes- sion—and practically all of that time has been spent in making people laugh, as he ts essentially a come- dian. His comic abilities are well- placed in the role of “Jeremy Spar- Tow,”-the fussy old servant who adds so much of humor to Mary Johns- ton’s much-loved romantic novel. Bert Lytell is an actor, and the son, the grandson and the great-grand son of actors. Acting runs back through his famfly for many genera- tions, He has played “Little Eva” in “Uncle Tom's Cabin” and villains in melodrama. He needed a wash- tub to make “thunder” for Uncle Tom’s Cabin” one night and bor- rowed it from a reluctant Chinaman at the point of a prop pistol! He Dert Lytelr ers himself a world authority on ra- York as a stowaway on a A‘Specialist in Royalty, Raymond Hatton? low who plays Frank O'Connor, The ttle fel- maurice’s assistant, used to manage the doddering King the world's greatest expert on xings He knows how a dozen kings ate their breakfast foods, whether they brushed their teeth or not and how they liked their steaks. He ought to know—because he's played more Kings than any living man. He's been the whole gamut, from the Az- teo “Montezuma” to the vacillating French monarch'of “Joan, the Wom- an.” And so it goes. It seems to be the case that you can’t interest the pub- lic unless you yourself have been interesting. Probably people of !ess absorbing background couldn't have caught and timed the swift action. the glorious romance of one of the most popular love stories ever writ- ten. Perhaps it's because they know life, how people live under va- rious dramatic stimuli, that we find so natural the appearances of Bert Lytell as the dashing “Captain Per cy” of Jamestown; of Betty Comp- son as “Lady Joselyn,” the king’s ward; of Theodore Kosloff as “Lord Carnal;” of W. J. Ferguson, of Ray- mond Hatton. It’s a certainty that to portray life one must have lived it—By Barrett Cc. Ktesling. No horseshoes or four-leaf clovers for Cecil B, DeMille! He has an en- ‘rely novel thing with which to wish himself good luck. It is an overcoat, somewhat delapidated, that he first wore nine years ago while making “The Squaw Mane” Whenever he {s particularly anxious about a production and is wishing for it every possible success he be- went broke in an Atlantic coast port a negro minstrel show. He constd- James of the story? He's probably gins to appear in the relic. ° ‘ Out of the lowest depths th i den (; leanings to the loftiest hein aie ape ’ ‘ —Carlyle. ee