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Show Babies Now I Are to Be Found j in Many Studios. it I i"" ' " HE mother and baby who nro . pictured on this page aro two I y of the moat-talkod-of pcoplo :t II In moving picture and studio 5 6. circles. nt the present time. t II They arc Allco Joyce and j V V s her C-montha-oId baby, Allco I Mary Moore. Miss Joyce. X who la Mrs. Thomas Moore In private life, has 1 Just returned to the screen after an absence of eighteen months. Llttlo Allco Mary Is a crowing, crow-ing, bouncing. Jolly baby, and as yet utterly unconscious un-conscious of the fortunate fact that her parents arc two of the best-known players on tho screen, and tho further fact that Just as soon as she Is Able to talk she will address Mary Plckford as Aunt Man- and call her husband Uncle, Owen. Miss Joyce and Mary Plckford aro married lo Thomap and Owen Moore, brothers. The parents of the movlo baby, as little Allco Mary 13 called In film circles, llvo In a beautiful house at Sea Gate, Long Inland, a short dls-j dls-j tanco away from tho Vltagraph studios, where $ Miss Joyce is employed. . GP.OUP of players woro In a studio roil ro-il A. contly. waiting for a director and star to 1 finish an argument about the setting of a sceno. 'I Most of the players wero old-timers, and tho if conversation naturally turned to -the past, to J tho days when tho actor, although well housed I and well fed when ho was lucky enough to play a town where there wero good hotels, was 'k never anything better than tho strollng player, a man without a country, a man without a ijJ home. , Thoso days wero contrasted with tho present, j when tho actor may own his own home-and llvo i "j in it, come down to work In his own automobile 2 and observe regular hours like any other work-j work-j j man. 1 j "Tho movies havo made a regular cltizon out 4 ', of the actor," said ono old-timer. "It has given ' :i him a homo, an address and a permanent place to hang his It has him better M jjBKKBBKfPftKBM JH j kopt her away from her chosen profession, and those of thorn who did keop on woro always miserable at being soparatcd from tho llttlo ones at home. Tho stage mother who did keep on In her work was forced to leave her babies with relatives, rela-tives, If she wero fortunate enough to havo them, otherwise with paid nurses, or establish a sort of traveling nursery and drag tho llttlo ones with them all over tho country. And the mother of tno stage, knowing that each successive stop took her farther away from her baby at home, was nover ablo to put her heart and spirit into her work. Many a stage mother has stopped nightly beforo tho footlights with a smile on her faco and tho gay words of the play on her Hps when her aching and breaking heart was a thousand miles away. A story is told in tho greenrooms of theaters of tho actress, a comedienne, who wont through a flvc-act play and conulscd her audience with tho drollory of hor work, and when tho last act was over went out and smiled In acknowledgement acknowledge-ment of tho thundorous npplauso, then stopped back in tho wings and fainted, and when sho was carried to her dressing room a telegram was found hidden away In tho bosom of tho gay dress sho woro which road, "Your baby Is dying." Tho woman had received tho message as tho show started. Sho knew It was impossible to go back half way across tho continent, and sho had abandoned herself to her art In an effort to smother her grief. Tho movies have changed all this for the players play-ers who have adopted the screen. And the moving mov-ing picture stago mother who keeps on at hor work can have her1 baby near her at almost any hour of the day. Most of tho players who have children live ! H near tho studios where thoy aro employed, and. i JH many of tho studios havo nurseries and play-. jf rooms for tho children of the plnyors. The llttlo H ones are reared in tho same atmosphere as other children, nnd their parents are not atran- gors to them, as was the caso whon the mother and father only got to see them at tho close of jJ the season. Of all tho blessings studio llfo has it given to tho people of the stage, motherhood is tho greatest. |