Show 1 STAR OF SERIAL OF I x GREAT IMPORTANCE I Important as is the star of a a. costly five reel reel feature to the success of the production of much greater importance 11 t is s the star of a serial As against the feet of film in the one is the or more in the other The one pla plays s 's week engagements perhaps The second second second sec sec- I ond runs from fifteen up Pathe's The Exploits J of ot Elaine had bad thirty-six thirty epi- epi sides of ot two-reels two each It takes ex exceptional exceptional ex- ex talent and charm in a 1 leading ading woman to pull big business In one pic- pic I eX-I 1 lure ure for so many weeks That is wh why for several everal years Pearl White has been practically confined to serials by the l Pathe athe company compan which has put out more serials than any other company compan II and md thus has the benefit of a wider experience The cost of a high x class dass serial with its high salaried cast I r C and nation wide advertising makes the thet t expense of putting out a big feature features rs rI s look took like a pocketful of change and I jj the tho girl star has much to do with wither ei IH making makin or breaking of it g a The fact that Mollie King one of r ti the better known of the younger screen screens I s tars has been selected by Pathe as n Rv the he heroine of a new serial now in the Q 41 making is proof that she answers ev every ry requirement of youth beauty talent grace and nerve all of which qualities quail quail- ties in abundance are demanded of ot a a. seri serial l star The Astra company which I is a large producer for the Pathe program pro pro- gram cram ram tried out Miss King in Kick In In I ft a motion picture adaptation of the faJa fait fa- fa Ja it j A. A II H. Woods stage success of the i it tie t name in which picture she supported William Courtney Courtney- Miss 1 King made a anit hit nit with the Pathe officials in this picture picture picture pic pic- pic- pic ture which is not yet released and so she he was given h-en h the bigger chance Miss King was born in New York City on April 18 1898 and made her first stage appearance at the age of 8 I months She's been acting ever since When she was only 15 years old she i t v as s an understudy for Elizabeth Brice T Ahe in the musical comedy The Winsome Widow Later she was in The Passing Passin Pass- Pass v in ing Show at the Winter Garden Garden- and I I supported Sam Bernard in The Belle of Bond Street She comes omes of a theatrical family Her brother Charlie King is a member of the well wen known vaudeville team Brice and King and her sister Nellie NelUe is a vaudeville artist also |