Show how I B broke into the movies j copyright by hal list C herman BY VICTOR I 1 11 into the movies during the oxford cambridge boat races miles away from flolly hollywood wood As a matter of fact I 1 was as in the movies five years before I 1 even saw flolly hollywood wood corn com tiodore J stuart blackton was visit ing england at the time of the race and met a producer for whom I 1 had made one p called the call of the road while thousands were breathlessly ng the progress of the boats on the thames this british producer in trod traduced me to ind and we had a conference then and there regard ing my wort in some p coures I 1 never saw the finish of that boat race as the commodore started me right in on the glor ous adventure a angly appropriate title for a debut in the movies another thing worthy of mention in connection with this picture was the fact that lady diana manners was my lead ng lady she his has since achieved fame no end as the madonna lu in the miracle I 1 r during the next four years I 1 was starred in any number of british pro duct lons long chief of which were the koman roman and the sailor tramp then came the real glori glorious oue ad venture coming to america at the T behest of commodore blackton to play with charles ray in percy and later the hunted woman F I 1 there have been many pictures since chief among them one of the unholy three with lon chaney and victer victor MeL aglen the part of the american doughboy in the french foreign legion in the wonderful film illin play beau geste and captain flagg in III what price glory the last two being talking pictures my favorite parts have been those of the rough and nady type of soldier the good natured rascal 1 I admire a he man who can swear and fight and still have a soft spot in his heart beart for a child or a woman or even a comrade and those are the parts 1 I ike 1 ke to portray on the screen because a great deal of my life has been one of an existence among men of that caliber I 1 ran away from home af at fourteen to join the british army lu in the boer war an and d got by as a member of the life guards because of my height all members of this organization are more than six feet tall later I 1 went to canada where 1 I worked as hired man on a farm in ontario and when the news of the silver strike in cobalt catoe to my ears cars I 1 tr ed that working my way there by odd jobs during a hard s ege of prospecting in that time I 1 was cheated out of in my y share of one strike things were rath er rough living and I 1 finally resorted to entering boxing and wrestling ex hibit lons to earn money some time later I 1 won the title of champion of eastern canada with my brother who has since gained considerable fame as fred mckay we literally fought our way around the country with a carnival on one occasion as a special feature I 1 was told that I 1 had to wrestle restle an entire football team within an hour I 1 won but I 1 wouldn t do it a second time tiare and so informed the carnival ceals in no polite terms then came a it long string of vaudeville and other adventurous engage ments including a six round no deel K lion islon fight with jack jphnson johnson then heavyweight champion of the world my brother and I 1 decided to spend some of our earnings in a cruise of the south seas after which we joined the gold rush to kalgoorlie australia where where we nearly died of thirst in the desert next detoured we toured india africa and ceylon until we heard of the world war the whole family four brothers joined up and served with the irish rust fusiliers liers our war experiences carried us through the african campaigns and we were it in on the capture of kut kyt el amara I 1 lost my beloved brother fred during the war he was killed in mesopotamia but happily the rest escaped serious injury it was while I 1 was training tri ining for a d plo matic post ta in england that I 1 met commodore blackton and then I 1 broke into the movies so you see my parts in life have been equally as thrill ng it if not more so than my picture parts and from tl ti e many men I 1 have met in my a an deriggs about I 1 have found the mate rial for my picture characters service |