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Show GazTrcM the Tttoaws n When a stage star reaches the zenith of her brilliancy she la usually usu-ally besought by molng picture producers to play before the camera. cam-era. They want her name to lend Its prestlgo to the film they are about to produce. With Viola Dana the reservo has been true. After thirteen years of playlng-before the camera In childish child-ish roles she has suddenly been claimed for the stage and at the age of 16 Is lending her company as a 6tar. In fact, she began starring when only 15 for she was given the title role of "The Poor Little Rich Girl" last August In New York. The story of her sudden Jump from the moics to stardom is one of the most brilliant in theatrical circles, for Miss Dana Is a star of the first magnitude and her brilliancy bril-liancy Is ever Increasing. Her start as an actress was not due to her own wish. It was more a. matter of bread and butter her elder sisters had to buy for her. When she was 3 years old moving pictures were just beginning to become be-come popular. The pioneer picture show houses were apcarlng In the larger cities and some of the more daring amusement companies In the smaller cities were taking them up. Her elder sister was doing a little acting before the film making camera. cam-era. One day the producer wanted want-ed a scene with a baby in it. The elder sister thought of Viola, Just 3 years old, and brought her to perform per-form the baby role. Viola was a good actress. She did her baby stunts just as she was directed and the producer put her on regularly whenever he wanted a baby scene. The little girl grew and as she prew the producer found more parts for her to play. They are always needing children in the movies and Viola could fill the bill every time. Persons who went to the moving picture shows thirteen years ago and paw the films produced in the Edison motion picture studios have had the pleasure of watching this delightful little baby toddle Into girlhood and now into young womanhood. wom-anhood. MISS DANA WANTS TO PLAY JULIET. Brought up to acting from babyhood. baby-hood. Miss Dana early had ambitions ambi-tions to be a great actress. She read Shakespeare as soon as Bhe was able and long before those who had charge of her bringing up thought she was able. Once she went to the play, "Romeo and Juliet." and saw Miss Marlowe take the part of Shakespeare's heroine. "Miss Marlowe Is too old," said Miss Dana. "She does wonderfully as Juliet but she Is much older than Juliet really was. Juliet was a girl In her teens Just like me. I'm going to play Juliet when I get a chance." Her first chance to go on the stage as a real actress was a year ago in "The Littlest Rebel," when she took the part of Vlrgie, but did not command the attention of the managers then. It was not for several sev-eral months that she received recognition rec-ognition as a star and then It was not because of her performance as Vlrgie, Joseph Brooks, manager of "The Poor Littlo Pvlch Girl," was searching search-ing high and low for someone who coulij take the rolo of Gwendolyn. Day after day he sat In his office interviewing applicants. Whoever played the part had to look like a girl and vad to have a girl's voice. She had to be a good actress too. for the part Is the most Important Im-portant in the play. Older actresses could not riake up as a girl to suit Brooks. Tall girls, short girls, fat girls, skinny girls, pretty girls, homely girls and freckled girls applied ap-plied to take the title role. After a particularly trying day when Brooks and his stage director had wearied of examining applicants, appli-cants, the stage director suggested they stop in a moving picture the- ' atcr where they could enjoy the cool air of the electric fans and at the same time divert their minds. As they entered the theater they saw the picture of Miss Dana on the screen. "That girl's an actress," said Brooks to his stage director. As they watched her play on the screen Brooks became more than ever convinced of the girl's ability. "I wonder who she 1b," he said. "I want her for the part of Gwendolyn." Gwen-dolyn." Ho rushed from the theater to the nearest telephone station and got the Edison studios on the wire. "Hello, hello," he called. "Is this the Edison Studio. I'm Brooks, Joseph Brooks." And then he told about the girl be had seen lr the pictures and MISS VIOLA DANA in several poses. wanted to know her address. The address was supplied and he hired a taxicab to send for the girl. Within With-in an hour she had seen the manager, man-ager, signed the contract and with her lines In her pocket was speeding speed-ing in the taxi to her home In the Bronx, saying over and over to herself, her-self, "I'm going to be Gwendolyn, and after that I'm going to bo Juliet." MISS DANA WINS INSTANT SUCCESS. Miss Dana's success was instantaneous. instan-taneous. At the close of her first performance she was famous and every dramatic critic In New York was sounding her praises. After a long run in New Yoric she played for six weeks with over-increasing favor and is now starting on a tour of the country with her company. Psychologists aro unable to account ac-count for such prodigies as Miss Dana. As a usual thing success does not come until middle life. At the ago of 15 most girls are Just bidding farewell to their dolls and they have no thought of the future. The world is a big playground to them. The fact that some day they must fill a place In the world as a wife or with an independent career ca-reer is scarcely thought of except in a haphazard sort of a way. When they do think of such things they cannot accomplish their desires except ex-cept after long years of study and disappointment. With men maturity comes even later than with women. In our colleges col-leges and universities the vast majority ma-jority of men students have not made up their minds as to their career. Not until a man has reached 21 does he think seriously of what he will do. His parents do not expect him to amount to anything, either until long after that age. He ls too young, they sny. and their sayln it tends to make him feel his own Insufficiency. Once In a while a youth breaks forth Into full manhood long before be-fore his time. Alexander Hamilton Hamil-ton was one of these. For youthful youth-ful brilliancy he probably was without a peer. When 14 years old he was placed in complete chargo of a big business at Vera Cruz In the West Indies when his employer was in the American Colonies From that moment began a brilliant bril-liant career in spite of poverty and hardship. Hamilton was born amid troubles. trou-bles. His mother was the wife of a Dane and the marriage was uncongenial. un-congenial. She divorced him and married James Hamilton, an English Eng-lish business man of the Island of Nevis. In the British West Indies Divorce at that time was uncommon uncom-mon and meant practical ostracism ostra-cism from society Hamilton was born amid disgrace because of that divorce. His father was a poor business man and was unable to educate his son properly. That Is why the youth was sent to Vera Cruz to worlt. A hurricane gave Hamilton his chance at fame and also gave him to the cause of American freedom. While working at Vera Cruz a terrific ter-rific hurricane swept the West Indies. In-dies. Hamilton wrote a description of that storm and sent It to a public pub-lic Journal for publication. He did not sign his name to it, but the story aroused general interest. The editor of the Journal was asked who wrote It Ho replied there was a youngster working In Nicholas Cruger's counting house who had written the brilliant story. I I When it became generally known that the story was written by a boy 15 years old town pride rose to a great height- Money was quietly raised to send the brilliant boy to New Jersey to complete his education. educa-tion. He was dedicated by the town of Vera Cruz to become a second Shakespeare- He began his stduies at the grammar cchool at Ellza-bethtown, Ellza-bethtown, N. J In a year he had run over all the course and fitted himself for the university. REFUSED ADMISSION AT PRINCETON. He went to Princeton and asked for admission there from Dr. Wlth-erspoon Wlth-erspoon with the stipulation that he HHHHHHHHH he allowed to take a? many studies as he wished. He explained he did not want to put the good people of Vera Cruz to great expense of educating him and modestl told Dr. Wlthercpoon that his mind was BO brilliant that he could do the work of three ordinary students. Dr. Witherspoon rejected him on those conditions, so he went to King's College. New York, now Columbia Col-umbia TTnivcrslty. When 17 years old he made himself him-self famous by a wonderful speech In New York denouncing the British tax on tea and speaking for armed resistance against Enpland. His force of reasoning, his eloquence and his clearness won for him th title of the eloquent collegian After winning fame as an orator he began writing for patriotic journals on behalf be-half of the people and against British taxation without representation. representa-tion. Ho was opopsed in these writings writ-ings by Dr. Cooper. pr Bldent of King's College. Hamilton's writings writ-ings were far more brilliant than those of his instructor and did much to win loyalty to the cause of the colonies in Now York. A year later whf-n war had broken out with England, Hamilton had distinguished himself on th field. Later he becamo George Wash I niton's private secretary. When the constitution was up for adoption after American Independence Independ-ence had been granted it was Ham- ilton who persuaded the' people by oratory and literary brilliancy to adopt the constitution and make the country a real United States. American finance was in a deplorable de-plorable condition when Washington Washing-ton became President and it was Hamilton on whom Washington called to put the country on a firm financial basis. Hamilton was only 32 years old when made Secretary of the Treasury. With a clearness of Intelleu he lived up to the expectations ex-pectations of his friends in Vera uz. He established the credit of the bankrupt States and raised money where it was thought there was none. Hamilton never became a literary genius as his patrons hoped he would. The Revolutionary Revolution-ary War took away his Interest In literary work. His ability as a writer was divided. Yet in his short life he had won Just fame in four lines of endeavor. He had proven his ability ac n writer. 0s an 0rn. tor. as a soldier and as n statesman. states-man. Had his ability been concen tratod on writing the citizens of Vera Cruz probably could have produced pro-duced a second Shakespeare as thev hoped. J Miss Dana Is concentrating her mind on one thing. She i8 an ac tress. Her life has been on. continuous con-tinuous round of acting, she can not remember her first performance perform-ance when her -Ister told her to crv and laugh before the camera, Her m earliest recollections are of wortt before the reel machine. Her admirers say she already ranks up with the best of the stags performers. They believe that before be-fore many years everyone will be willing to place her In the rank, with Bernhardt. A Son of the Rothschilds. Erich von Goldschmldt-Roths- I child, the youthful son of the world powerful house of money kings, was a guest of New York City, traveling around the world with Dr. Victor von Varendorff. his physician phy-sician and traveling companion. Young Erich has som Interesting Interest-ing lews on love, marriage and other things. This ls his philosophy, philoso-phy, as he outlined it In brief In an Interview here: Thirty ls time enough to choose a wife. Too many marriages are made nowadays before we meet half the the people we are going to meet. I do not object to the slit skirt. When a woman has charms she should not be loath to display them, j I am willing to be charitable, but j I do not want to be what ls known in America as "easy." America can be proud of four things the Grand Canyon. Its large cities, such as New York and Chicago; its girls and photog- i raphers. Mr. Rothschild was asked by a reporter in Chicago whether he , would see Belmont in New York, and he answered: "You men Belmont Bel-mont Hotel0" "No." said the reporter, "August Belmont." Who Is he" "Why his firm for many years were the agents of your family In New York." "Is that so?" said young Roths-chlld. Roths-chlld. "I never heard of him. My famlh lias many agents, you know." This will be quite a surprise to all of the jockeys on the racetrack. When the youth of millions had returned to bed he munched on a bit of fruit the while he talked of love and marriage and a dozen other oth-er things. "Ich Hebe, du liebst, er llebl," he said. Jokingly. "You see, I am still a boy and too young to be very much concerned with love and marriage mar-riage at 19. One should live the life of a carefree boy until he ls 21. Even then he should not marry. "You would know why? At that age the average young man has not what is It you say in America? Settled down that's it. He Is liable lia-ble to be infatuated for the time being be-ing and then then comes regret and blighted hopes and happiness. Too many marriages are mado nowadays now-adays before we meet half the people peo-ple we are going to. "Thirty Is time enough to choose a wife. One has then been buffeted on the sea of bachelorhood and can more fully appreciate the Joy of a home." The young student of Oxford smiled and Intimated he had been reading some of America's "beat Be Hers." Then he aald he ai thinking 6erlously of the day he will bring a bride to his viUa Franklort-am-Main. "There will be a Mrs. Rothschild, he said. "Who '-c will be I do not know. Yes, she must be beautiful and have dimples Her very presence pres-ence must suggest a spirit of prld almost akin to insolence. e" she must not be haughty. Likewise Like-wise she must be a woman of sense and tolerance broadmlnded, so to speak. Her eyes? Perhaps the? shall be blue perhaps of a darK color. But they must be appeal and hewitchlng." "I heard that some American women and men. too crlticiw the the " 'Silt skirt?" "Yes. I think that is what y call It." said young Erich. "1" mV opinion it ls attractive snd distinctive. distinc-tive. When a woman has charm she should not le loath to dlapw them, providing she does not overstep over-step the bounds of decency. ( shall expect my wifo to be fashionably fashion-ably attlrod. "My wife need not be wealthy-Money wealthy-Money is not everything. She nee . not be what we term In Europe-- L of my class. She must only be one r I love and who loves me In a Per j fectly real and sincere way. Then he turned his mind to otne things. He told of his trip arouna the world and of his impressions o America. fl "Europe has much to learn trow America." he said, "but the old cb & still teach the young, and Am"C fl) may still learn from Europe4 f only wise conservatism."- b j U |
