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Show Petite Movie 5tc3r Makes Call Clever Baby McAlister "Home. : v , . c ' ' ' " ' i " ' r ; I .'.,- x. , I V - : - ' - " .,-- - "f : j ,1 Nf i .- J i i h 'r .; . ' i-.i; i n .vv ? rr i XA i? 4 ,i . ? , i y ff .- :v- ' - A u . - f . ;?h- - a . t 9 ' ! ' ; V-. i ( i t ' 1 - & - hi , i. X Ss 1 , hf " " Juvenile Screen Favorite and Mother in Town. ArCTITE demoiselle just a wisp of a girl of only nine summers, who speaks French, swims, plays the piano bewitchingly, use's tli o conversational English of a A assar graduate and has climbed lo the top rung of fame's ladder as a screen favorite in the short space of two years. is an example ot what can be done in child development. The example is "Babe'' (Marv) McAlister, Mc-Alister, who. with her mother. Mrs. V. C. McAlister, has come to Salt Lake Irom Chicago to visit with relatives and friends before going to the coast, where Miss Mary has several flattering film offers awaiting her. Mother and daughter daugh-ter are guests at the Hotel b'tah. Prior to her marriage Mrs. McAlister was Miss Violet Craig, and is remembered remem-bered for her performance in 'Ml'orian-ton," 'Ml'orian-ton," a play written by a Salt Lake attorney, at-torney, O. V. Bean, aiid gien its premier pre-mier performance in this city. Mrs. McAlister has played minor "roles in the companies in which her daughter has been seen as a star. Mary is the niece of C. S. McAlister of this city and granddaughter of the late Lorenzo Snow. Some of the more popular pictures in which Miss Marv has been featured are 'Pants," "Mother Hubbard." "On Trial'' and "Sadie Goes to Heaven." Most of the scenarios have been specially spe-cially written for her by Charles Norton Nor-ton PeckworT.h. "1 feel that Salt Lake belongs to me," said Mary, as she went -jut of the hotel ciceroned by The Tribune camera man looking for a suitable background back-ground which would set off Mary's winsomeness. "1 feel it belongs to me because it is mother's town and father's town and because I was here when I was onlv a wee. tiny baby. And. oh,' I do fove these mountains. They're wonderful. They thrill me when I look at them, and I do so like to be thrilled. Can 1 get to the top of then:?" Sweet as a springtime fluwer. Marv jpoi-ei her-c!f in front of a large evergreen ever-green and demurely took instructions from the can-era man. The operation ended, she return0-! to the hotel, plaved several le.t:ons on the piano, att'-r which trie conversation was carried on in Fien'-h. Abont rne time she beg'-in to recite the Lord's Prayer iu the Gallic tongue, her interviewer threw up his bands and figuratively tandKd her the ribbon. Tnat Mary sits high in trie hearts of motion picture kiddidom is evi- j receives trim erJliren from praeticaiiv I every country in th- world where the cinema has a fallowing. Best of ail. s.e ii-.es trje appreciative notes sent her by the youngsters of far awav Japan. They call her angel, and ay tbr-y ear.not wait un:i her pictures are ' Ma--, her mother says, has been brought up along Montessori Uae. Her ! mother has taught Mr by givinp all wru-k the sernb.ar.ee of p':av. lhey expect to leave atnrdav for jLos Angs. Cal. i i Accomplished i i Mary j McAlister, queen 'if motion ! picture hiddiedom, of Lorenzo Snow who pays visit to Salt Lake on her way to mi engagements on the coast. Mary, , her mother says, is not precocious, and attributes her development to the use of Montessori methods. |