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Show r jjki mxfju jmjji mmirrrritirr " FM MWfnmtPMWm PHOTOPLA Y KIDDIES WELL PAID FOR UPLIFTING DRAMA How Boy and Girl Players Lend Sentiment and Pathos. Many Star Juveniles of the Screens Were Formerly Footlight Favorites. Because the little tot of ten or twelve years lias become essential to the production pro-duction of many photoplays he or she can lay as just a claim to independence as the new woman. Many of the child players, in fact, receive at the end of each week a pay envelope that is larger than that of their fathers or mothers. Managers of motion picture companies com-panies have recognized the fact that children add greatly to the heart interest inter-est of a photoplay f requently the writer of photoplay scenarios uses the child to bring about a reconciliation between be-tween an estranged husband and wife. Again the child serves as a substitute for the love element when the writer wishes to provide one of his characters charac-ters ivith an ambitious incentive or to interject an uplift motive Without the children the membership of an up-to-date motion picture company would not be complete Many of the boys and girK whose faces arc familiar tr patrons r,f phdtOplays ar' stage children chil-dren who followed the example of older players and left the footlights to act in front i if the cameras Among this company is included Leonie lTugratta. who has, during her career, appeared in "Rip Van Winkle," 1 1 he Piper' and "F.ditha's Burglar" Tv. el ve- car-old Adtle dc Garde first attracted the attention of motion picture company managers through het clever acting in entertainments in Brooklyn, Wi y She is still a MMqplgirl and docs mot of her posing on Saturday afternoons after-noons and during the Slimmer vSCatiOril Two little players vC$o have acted their v, a into prominence ar-- Mattie Roubcrt and Early Coummi Mattie is six years o'd and has been appearing before the camera linCC he was three In a motion picture production of "Uncle Tom's Cabin he was the original Little Hairy Marl v made her liri-t a; pearnnce In the motion picture world when she wis two years old Since that tune he ha- played leading child roles for ari'iiis comnaniea To attain success ju an actress at the ugc of 'even l- th record of Adelaide Lawrence She made her biggest hit in a film production of Whittier's "Barefoot "Bare-foot Boy." A MECeUlT FROM TUF. STAGF. Yale BOSS as lOrmerl) a St;ge child The history of bis career on the stage Includes a comedy part in "The Ton of the World" and a lead in "The Silver Star. ' t one time he also played with Mile ( ipnee 1I h:is considerable talent ns an actor and requires but little coaching coach-ing to make him perfect in the parts which he essaj s. To mention motion picture child ac-tressei ac-tressei without including the name of kdna May Welch woula be an unpardonable unpar-donable "ini'sinn Her uel' as an actress ac-tress are n'.i-r and an entire absence of self-consciiiUsiic-s Her picture on the screens ia sure to bring forth applause, l lnrenci Kl'.t-. elewii years .,, wh,,.,. Ii'une h in Brooklyn, received her fir t training as an actress in private theatrical". theatri-cal". She quickly won success as a photoplay actn Patrons of motion picture shows arc familiar with thl faces of "Bud." a cowboy cow-boy four year old. who rides an unmanageable un-manageable horse, and his comrade. Melba, eleven, a cowgirl Thi later has become known as an expert equestrienne. eques-trienne. I Other well known child "stars" arc Edith Haldeinan, whom King BaggOtt of the Imp cast calls his "little leading lady" Rosanna Logan, with Reliance; Helen and Dolores Costello, with the Vitagraph ; Roswell Buster Johnson, with the Lubin Company : Baby Mgva Sterling, with the Champion Film Company; Com-pany; icorgc Hollistcr. Jr, and Jud-son Jud-son Mclfoid. of the K.dem Stock Company, Com-pany, and little Lay Bricrlcy, of the Universal Uni-versal Films. BXtXU IN PATHOS It is in phot- plays of pathos that the child player particularly shines He is sometimes seen dying while his father is gambling and bis mother prays for someone to appear and summon a physician physi-cian 1 lien enters the Western desperado, des-perado, a man with a price on Ins head, Whose vicious, hard nature is so softened at the sight of the suffering child that 1 iaokaph it) - r a'j brjcrlen 'aHV A 1 sTnces lictaon j m J,',l 'I Maftfa and Zarly he riks his life to bring a doctor to the boy's bedside "The little girl or boy player can bring more tears to the eyes of members of the audience than a big cnmtioiul actress.' ac-tress.' remarked a producer of photoplays. photo-plays. "Stand in the rear of a motion picture house at some matinee when a child picture is being shown on the screen If it is serious, you will begin to sec the handkerchiefs come out till pretty soon ihr house begins to look like a camping ground lr a number of little armies whosi commanders arc waving llags of truce." TMF. CXTPPLfo BOY A photoplay that has attracted considerable consid-erable favorable comment shows a crippled crip-pled boy in a city tenement house leaving leav-ing his father and mother, bickering and quarreling over a trivial matter, to start a search for his lost doll The net scene depicts an ex-convict, recently re-lea-ed frnn prison, reading a letter fr in I "pa!" asking him to join in a criminal enterprise. Desperate and discouraged bCcaUse of lack of money, the man of the underworld determines to take up the Ways that sent him to prison when the door of Ir.s flat opens and show-; the little boy. who has laboriously climbed the stairs i" inquire regarding his lost gintcracV- The convict is impressed by the child, experiences a change of heart and tears up the letter his comrade has written. In the successive scenes the boy 's pictured creeping up flight aft r flight of ;tairs to open doors of flats wherein are revealed sordid poverty and utter hopelessness. On tb- top flor be finds a man in abiect wretchedness and destitution destitu-tion contemplating suicide The siht of the chibl bolsters tip the courage of this victim of fate and he renounces hi' resolution reso-lution to end his life. Then he carries the child back to his parents who cease quarreling when the prospective suicide bells his -tory The managers of the photoplay companies com-panies occasionally experience difficulty in obtaining child players adapted to the parts the are wanted to take. In some cases the green child actor bn an appearance that is up to the standard, but not the intelligence to comprehend what is required in order to make his part real and ivid. |