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Show LILLIAN LORRAINE, NEW PICTURE STAR Lillian Lorraine, who is to star in the forthcoming Pathe-Balboa serial, "Neal of the Navy," was born In San Francisco, in 1892. Like a number of others of the popular stage favorites of the day she made her debut before the footlights at a very early age playing "Eva" in "Uncle Tom's Cabin Cab-in when she was only four years old. Subsequently she took a child's part with a stock company at the old Central Cen-tral Theater while attending the pub- Ih w.is' At o ase of fourteen she left San Francisco for New York, ' just three months before the big earthquake. She obtained a small paJtn,Jl mU8,cal comedy under Richard Rich-ard Golden almost immediately on her Vai,Hr nfxt eneagement was with Eddie Foy in "The Orchid," half time in chorus and half doing a small r1' , BecaU8G of her striking person-allty person-allty Mr. Foy soon took her out of the chorus and gave her a song, The Impression Im-pression she made resulted in her being be-ing given an engagement in "The Great White Way," with Blanche Ring and Jeff De Angeles. Her first real chance came when she was engaged en-gaged by Florence Zlegfeld to appear In support of Anna Held In "Miss Innocence." The next year saw a further advance In that she was feat-ured feat-ured in the "1909 Follies" with Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth. She re-mained re-mained with the "Follies" for the next tireo years, being starred in the "Fol- wd oit1912" when Nora Baycs drop- She became the sensation and fav- t'i;6' She bro Into vaude-ovir vaude-ovir SI TTa Xmonth8' engagement ETi,th0 B' - eastern time as a headline feature In a alngle alnng act with original songs. In 1914 she was featured In the big "Whirl of the World" cast, an all-the-season New York success. She was filling another anoth-er U. B. O. vaudeville engagement when approached by H. M. Horkheim-er Horkheim-er of Balboa, who induced her to appear ap-pear in pictures for the flrBt time in , "Neal of the Navy" which he was I about to put on for Pathe. Previous ly she had turned down many flattering flatter-ing offers from film manufacturers. Miss Lorraine still preserves her fondness for musical comedy and expects ex-pects to appear In New York In a big production this fall. She has been frequently offered stellar parts in drama and hopes eventually to be seen therein. Her screen work indicates indi-cates a splendid fitness for this line of dramatic endeavor. Miss Lorraine is especially well known In New York for, like most of the great falvorltes of the stage, she has been kept there In Broadway engagements continuously. continuous-ly. Her beauty, the way she wears her clothes, and her genuine talent will undoubtedly make her a big favorite fav-orite on the screen. rw- |