Show H Here ere y You ou Will I F. F Find In d the th t I r 1 Interesting G Gossip F. F From Tom i tea oj Announcements of 01 the Salt Salt alt th t h Ph I Film S What What Y Your Yore Lake 1 Motion fo for r Today Picture H Houses I e ay F Favorites of the of d Doing i the g S Screen Are a r Edwin Stevens Renowned Dramatic Starr L I 1 dM 8 c 0 I z i air ys y tea ri rif f f Mr Edwin Stevens the star of the Unity sales Ales les Corp sixteen episode episode episode epi epi- sode serial The Yellow Menace like many of our famous actors was born jorn in California and before having anything at all aU to do with the stage was engaged in banking for a short time and afterwards became a mining superintendent in Arizona And had hadit hadt it t not been for the San Carlos Apaches who one bright morning went on the warpath and destroyed all the property of the mine Mr Stevens might Wight have been lost to the American stage Losing everything when the mine mine buildings were burned Mr Mr Stevens became a government scout and worked his way back bade to San Francisco where he became becam a soloist in one of the large choirs He next joined an opera company under Alice Oakes the prima donna and after a season or two in comic comic opera he ic became a manager of theatres for tor fora a a. time and in 1889 made his first appearance appearance ap ap- ap- ap arance in New York at the Casino Theatre where during his early days he be created the roles of in inThe inThe inThe The Drum Major and in Ermine For the next fe few years after the beginnings of his Broadway success Mr Stevens appeared as a astar astar astar star in various enterprises under the late Charles Frohman at the Empire Theatre and Augustin Daly In vaudeville he made a tremendous hit with An Evening Evenin With Dickens a series of characterizations that gave unlimited scope for his bis talent But undoubtedly the greatest character that Mr Stevens has ever played and the one by which he be is best known is The Th Devil in the play of the same sam samy name which ran at the Garden theatre theatre The Theatre the the- atre for over a year beginning in in 1908 and in which he afterwards afterwards' toured the country for several sea sea- sons It was in this play that he gained distinction and set a standard for character actors to shoot at Beyond Beyond Beyond Be Be- yond all question it stamped him as one of the greatest living exponents of dramatic dram tic characterizations |