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Show French Girl I Becomes a Star H After Manager H of Thanhouser I Plant Happens to I See Her Picture I on the Movie I Screen. I -L HERE Is almoBt as much talk Vk about how to pronounce this girl's namo as thoro Is about hor beauty and popularity. I L LaBndlo Is pronounced with 1 tho accent on thu LaB, un- Vj' ,4 less you aro French, thon t ..r- thero Is a stress on tho List syllable, Impooslblo to describe in type, and, for that matter, in speech, with a Gallic accent LaBadlo, with a little kick on tho first throo letters, is about as close as wc can como to It In "United States." Mies LaBadle is a French girl, with Montreal, Canada, as her birthplace Sho has had a short, but successful career, on tho regular stage, and a long and equally successful record on- tho Bcrccn. Sho owes her success in both branches of tho art to throo things: ability, wllllnirncss and the firm belief, formed in child- hood, that sho was destined to becomo a great actress. Miss LaBadio made her first stage appearance with Chaunccy Olcott in Ragged Robin. After a season of this sho went to that cradlo of tho movlng-plcturo art the Biograph studio. Tho Blograpb had no star system then. A player might have a loading part one day, and bo ono of a crowd of extras the noxt, but it was the best training In tho world. fl Aftor leaving the Biograph, sho went to tho IH Pacific Coaet and appeared In several produc-tlons. produc-tlons. This fixed hor determination to glvo up tho regular stago for good and Btlck to tho IH She went back to New York and laid sicgo to the studios. Ono day sho wont to tho Than- IH housor plant and waB told very politely by Ed- IH win Thanhouser that thoy did not need any players, but when they did she should bo sent Miss LaBadlo did not hang any too much hopo IH on thlo small peg of perfunctory politeness, becauso sho had heard it nald boforo. But a day or so later Mr. Thanhouser went to a pic- jH turo show hlmoelf, Just Hko a doctor will some-times some-times tako a doso of his own modlclno, and jH whllo thero ho saw a Biograph plcturo with a little French girl with fluffy hair and ability written all over her work, and tho next day tho unoxpected happened. Miss LnBadlo was sent for and put to work, and sho has been at that studio over slnco. |
