Show Y H l o W t K Kp From l G GOw Ow ng i 1 Star of Screen Tiny rn o Stories for Children Still Has HasHer HasHer Her Dolls an and Thinks Only n Young Thoughts Thoughts Proves Proves J F of Fallacy o Claim aim No 0 Film Actress Over 25 Can Remain a Favorite By L LOUELLA L O. O PARSONS INDUCING Marguerite Clark to talk D I Ii is like getting a sphinx to smile Not U that this dainty bit of humanity in all any other way resembles Egypt's famous stone image but she is is certainly in her determination to keep Marguerite Clark and her affairs out of the conversa conver conver- sa tion The public always seeking some morsel of or news of ot this popular r star devours ours eagerly er c every word written about her achievements her life and her philosophy of or ln living She has been quoted as ns assaying assaying saying this and that and as ns reading this tills kind of literature and that kind hind of science when as ns a ama ma matter of ot fact she never ne expresses her own views on any subject This much she told me herself Marguerite Clark is the most misquoted star In pictures She regards every magazine and newspaper newspaper news news- paper writer as her ber natural enemy and is just plain stubborn when a correspondent approaches her with a list of promising questions Because she had put her ller heart and soul into making The Seven Swans and because some one told her I was interested in children children's s pictures and had lectured on better films for tor the little folk foll she expressed a desire to meet me mc It was a disagreeable disagree disagree- able dark day and find I had made the trip to the Famous Jamous Players studio Pauline Frederick and Miss Clark were ere working working work work- ing side by side with only a screen to separate them Miss 1 Frederick was going through all the emotions of ot a jealous woman in Jealousy an allegorical drama dramn while little Miss Clark In a fairylike costume was acting actinS' the thc part of or the lost princess Fannie Ward has bas been awarded tb the palm again and again for bearing the perennial bloom of ot everlasting everlasting ever ever- lasting youth but It is 15 a question in m my mind whether or not these honors should not be divided divided di dl- vided and Marguerite 1 Clark riven half o ot of them thern In her golden wig set t jauntily on her own soft sort brown brown hair Marguerite n Clark might easily have passed paSSe for lor a child of 11 There are arc few lines on her face and her small childish figure slender and slight enough only to resister register nine eighty-nine pounds on the did not b by comparison look any tny more mature than that of the children playing with her There is something exquisite and fragile about 11 her r like the prettiness of or a bl big doll When rhen she played in with De Wolf Hopper the public rae raved about her childlike beauty It was Adolph that wise prophet who saw in the star of oC nab flab Mine nn and other farce comedies the At t making ln of oC 1 a great moving mo picture actress first she lIc scoffed at nt his his' offer and lIlt then with a n business business busi bust ne ness acumen almost t as keen us his own she aLe put her name to a contract giving in her a bigger salary than she had ever cr earned carved In hl her hel life liCe I behind Mary She came into pictures four years ears Pickford Tick Blanche Sweet the and the other famous stars whose head start might have lUl augured badly had she blie not almost immediately carried the picture going public by by st storm rm She was tray different this tiny cr creature who could net anti and already dy had made n a hi big reputation on the thc stage Her first picture with its bit hit of comedy was such sucha a success exhibitors all over oyer the country countr clamored clamored- for more Marguerite Clark Clarl features Mary Iary Pickford up to this time the thc undisputed queen of oC put her hand 1 ud to her head to see ce If It her crown was fiS securely fastened This new lIew star tar made such a furor and the name Marguerite Clark Clarl t became such a n household word If It little Mary Iary had had a n spar spark of o jealousy In her make up she would hn have hare e died on the spot But nut instead of oC raving my ravin in ing n against little Marguerite our Mary who Is one Y r rr r o 1 4 1 f 1 A 5 r y Y rJ ri Y lf X t 1 fi r r Y w y Wt s v i j ryr Y Ti f S 1 ru S 4 S. S 3 f. f fY w yr L k 1 A 4 A c. c K f q Pr r i ro S' S j V i lY l M Mt t 1 X- X a P iY vi i t A rr 4 r g a G r r r rr r Q t i Pi 6 t Sr Ya d 1 ki a i 1 r o W Z Zo rJ 44 Yf 4 5 x Two favorite poses of fare 4 f ry y stories she Marguerite r rClark Y 7 t v 1 v f Clark actress who vho has a r Y Y J j r t P Pa Pd s Qt f d f r len l- l endeared eared herself t en ij rc r. r mj Z x Er E c Xo to tens of thousands of w 1 t L A Au it t u r children The photo above has never been published before of or the most lovable e natures In pictures ra ed about her ter She became one of the Marguerite Clark followers and spoke everywhere c about the great charm of the newcomer Well at nt the end of ot a year ear Marguerite Clark I Made so o much money for Adolph he had to pay v her something like a week to hold her Other min film magnate lUa vaudeville managers and antI theatrical producers rushed to her with contracts She pondered lo for 01 a few days clays Vaudeville Vaudeville- was wis out of the question So o was any am other picture company Corn com pang pany But Hut the stage static she loved and Its memories of or her successes came back to her and for a whole day she wan wavered rd Then ti finally nn 11 that reason which induced her to 81 sigh n her original Famous Players contract came Caine to her nn and she hc decided to stick slick by hy bythe bythe the company compau which had her pictorially has proved n age e is only a matter matter mat mat- ter of or mental thought Think young oun thoughts thoughts- 11 live lire a n young joung life and eternal youth shall be yours i is isher isher her hel logic She has done clone all nil of these things s and the rc result is at the age of but of-but but It Is unfair to tell tella It a woman's womans age ac And Anel be besides ldes who cares cures that she acknowledges more than 20 she she hc OO s g only 1 17 IT Ohio the lire state of presidents and statesmen has also done Clone its share in the matter of or stars star Theda no Barn Tn halls lIs front from rom Cincinnati tI a and nd Marguerite Mar Mar- Marguerite 11 r- r Clark first saw the light of day In Avondale iron Avon on dale doll Ohio Her parents died when she was a tin tiny child and an nn older sister de her life to car car- carIn carIng In lug Ing for this talented little dy clr who came out of ot the Ursuline coin cut convent cut to the musical comedy sta stage c That was in in S so you jou can tan 11 ur for yourself Miss Clark has proved Ho the fallacy of or a statement 1 IP v crY Yr r wr a r r v I i r II h i t- t 3 t iv q Y j rAls' rAls f t w rr rJ r S r t w. w la 4 t vt t k r re 1 4 H i y e r 1 try t 71 r i r Q 1 6 i y w c i S y tCo J t t. t 1 I 1 li ifs recently made wade that n ail al 1 moiS moring mor- mor iS In ing picture pilfers over o 23 1 f Cr t are arc useless for or st starring on the hc screen 1 Miss H Clark hasn't a pink link l ticketed film fills a against herI her I A A pink ticketed film for tor the benefit of or tho those e woo who are not familial familiar familiar fa fa- fa- fa with movin moving picture language lan lan- guage ua means a 1 picture passed parsed II by liy bythe the cen censor or boa boars board rl with the thc reservation reserva reserva- tion tiou that no children s see e it it- the She he has become very ery dear to the thc mothers mothers mothers' moth moth- ers ers ers' clubs and the Childrens Children's cl 1 cl y for fot the clean wholesome picture has given the little people With nth the delightful Bab nab pictures the fairy tales taJu and ancl the many interesting film stories to her credit she is is Indeed th tho wee Columbus of ot better pictures Her After chatting with her I 1 am nm convinced con she be deserves cl desen de- de sen serves es es all the tIle adoration given gl her Ir by tens of thou thou- r sands of wee theater visitors nm anti and mothers I gleaned in our talk tall she hoped to male mae pic pie pIctures pIcture's pictures tures ture's for the children she had no desire LOT Loas t to return to the stage e and she hc considered J. J atle was ns an Ideal director for childrens children's fen fea- lures ture She appreciated the publics public's Interest In her het but lint she con considered l it better tast not to talk o of bet achievements nod and not to be seen too oft often CD to h public hl ie Also o. she he loves ores dolls doll and has kept all of her hr make c children with her hr Copyright l is by J KeI Keeley r |