Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1916-09-24 | Page 9 | Quit Tragedy for the Chorus

7 QUIT TRAGEDY FOR THE CHORUS t r j i Barrie Barlie Left Let Shaker Shakespeare Shake Shake- r ills ills- speare to Go W With ith ith Musical Mu swat Coned Comedy r. r Iff ff I from Shakespearian SI ake actor to to 1 chorus l nan man I ph a conned comedy and from chorus man to star in the same production pro pro- L ducton were here the e amazing amazing- Jumps made mado H be Barrie who Is s appearing tn In n Fairfax t Barrie was born In Calcutta India l in 1 IF i- i 9 while his father Will was there thelo In Inthe British Indian government 0 service He the lc returned l to England with his hia hl parents parl par- par tnt while v a youth and was was wast educated Halle bury college e England and at i In n h hs h's The stage stae beckoned him hint s 's while at the great reat Gorman university ind nj at the a age e of oC 19 ID he became an of ictor He Ile played In London and In the 1 provinces pro wit with h Fred Terry and aid J Julia llIn tUson and then joined l Sir Frank r Benson Denson the eminent British tragedian trag-edlan I With ith him luro he no traveled Oa all over Europe t appearing in a wide range TanZe of Shakespearian Shakes Shakes- Shakespearian productions I White while he was playing Shakespeare eare he le was sei seized with a desire to enter I s nu- nu musical comedy Against tho the advice of all his fi lends friends he gave ga up big i Darts arts In ison's Bf company and became a chorus chorus cho cho- rus man at Dal Dales Daly's s 's theatre where The Count of Luxemburg was was being presented pre pre- and was the rage rase of or the town town- Carrie Barrie was as destined to be he a chorus man but a short time Soon after aCter tio- tio o- o Ing the company he Was as permitted to understudy the star He Ile made such auch Ji si hit lilt that he was given the part and amid played It for tOr fifteen months Barrie came to New ew York In 1013 1913 r nn mid Joined John Drew who was ing ng Much uCh Ado About Nothing Sub- Sub S he appeared t in Charles Charle FrohS Froh roh- T t I roans nuns companies with Grace Geol George e and nd Jonn Joan Sawyer and then played the lead f. f Iad In Nobody Home At th the con- con Yc of or the latter engagement he lie henas 1 n was nas as signed by hy the International Film to with Harry Fox rind appear Grace Darling DallIn In Beatrice Fal fix I I II l t I I Beauties From U. U S. S and Canada Seek F Film Hm Fame in N. N Y J i I 44 I IJ Un OY R RM M r f t ra S 5 j 4 tt t Y J r t t Y 4 M. M la t I 5 v q croo Eight winners of beauty and brains contest seeing New York New York Sept 23 Eleven en Eleven I fUl and enga engaging girls one girls one I representing representing Canada ind tho the other ten chosen from nine states In the union union- have arrived In New York New ew York to Picture star stars I The They are the winners of or a big film company's beauty and brains contest and each Is assured of or ofa ora a thorough screen trial Tho The eleven cloven prize beauties are arc Vi Vivian YI iah Suckling Winnipeg Manitoba Manito Manito- ba Estelle Claire Jud Judy McKeesport I Pa Lucille Spokane Wash Vash I Florence GIa Gray Seattle Wash ash Claire Lois Butler Lee Wichita Kon Kan Peg Peggy Bloom Orlando Fla Atalla Matton Batton I Dallas Tex rex Phyllis E E. Curl Roxbury i Mass Mildred Lee Kansas Kamms City Mo Mc I i Lucille Waynesville N. N C C. C. C an and Helen Arnold Louisville I Ky Here are some sonic of oC the reasons the girls give for tor leaving homo home to try to tobe tobo tobo bo be actresses Because m my married life lite Is un un- un- un happy Because I want to love lovo my work at the end of or the da day Having OlIa been born and raised In a a. small town m my soul Is chained to the town pump To bo ho able to to- enjoy the luxuries that ever every actress who makes good can Ii have avo I have waited for a n. chanco chance to show the world that tall girls can be as charming as small ones I am six feet tall Am m 45 Hi years old quantities of or pro pre maturely white hair Diabolical mixture mixture mixture mix mix- ture of oC ancestry French ancestry French Irish Jewish As for passion I have a soul brim brim- Cu full fullI 11 I a adore or sadness and would love to act In sad pictures Have Ha lived among among- the Navajo Indians In In- In Speak their language I 1 am thed of oC being a n parasite and wish t I fl become a a. movie I will not sit v th folded hands lands and d ardsee see the thc world go b by There Is a preponderance of oC hazel- hazel eyed girls two gray gra one brown one gray brown and one gray blue ra blue This information Is from Crom feminine sources fhe testimony of oC male experts under such an illusory array would bo be quite valueless