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Show Girl Who Held Broach If in Her Hand After V She Won i Fame in 1 California Finally Joins I tee iVlovies. bt 1 B f TD now Marjorle Rambcau Bt-f has Joined the movies! B',)' A When thJs young star B first shot across the thca- B trlcal firmament out in A California, and. people be- B - Ean t0 tal about ncr ner A fs y friends used to say: "The movies'll get If walch oul, ut -Miss flambeau would always shake her head and say no. And while she aid not give B any specific reason for refusing to act for B screen she stuck to her determination, Bl movie magnates fat contracts BMk their hands and tears in begged her L to their cameras. Hb iss Rambcau's rise in Bf bec-n rapid. She began in stock company B In California a few7 years and it KF lime until she the talk of en- HJP tire Pacific Coast. Then, conquering the V West, she turned her heart and eyes and B toward that mceca of all players, Broadway. B Miss ParnbcAU went to New York. There was EtW 11 great noise made about her arrival. An Rf, ordinary player is very much like a needle in BfJ the haystack in that great beehive of scokcrs m j . after fame and fortune, and about 90 per cent Up ' of. (hose who so to New York a-sccklng fame Hf get sr badly lost In the shuffle that they are B) iiever heard from. B. But Marjorle Itambeau was not an ordinary f player She was an extraordinary one. She O Mad t,ie recipe for the secret formula of success B "With 1hc most hardened audience. She could B ' niake "cm laugh, she could make 'cm think, she B could' make 'em cry particularly could she BU? make 'em cry I Emotional work wan one of her BJ strong points. HflHT - ' A- crcs discovered her and said nice Kl L' things about her. More critics sharpened up B mjm ' their ears and their pencils and said some more Bf things about BvBv ' Broadway fell t was hers to hold in her Bjkp hard, to make jump through hoops to stand BH on Us hind legs when she willed it. B Miss Kambcau's Broadway hit was made in H Cheaters Cheated, at the ElHnge Theater. They say of her in the metropolis that she is a. sort of Maude Adams and Ethel Barrymoro rolled Into one, and as an emotional actress she grades about inn per cent right along. Now that she has conquered the regular stage and beaten P.roadway to a pulp she has 6igncd up a contract to appear In pictures. Maybo that was the reason she refused the offers of movie producers at the beginning- of her career maybe she wanted to strike ten in loud tones before she turned her attention to other fields. But no matter what the reason may be, she has "Joined out" with the movies, nnd even at the risk of being bromldlc, It must be said that what is a loss to the regular stage is a distinct gain to the pictures. There is a marked difference between today and yesterday In the attitude of the regular stage players toward the movies. The time was when the regular stage star turned up his or her nose at the movies, and would have none of It. An actor with a reputation feared he would injur it by appearing in what looked to him like a cheap enterprise, suited only to 5 and 10 cent audiences. And even actors who were set so far back on the time-card of fame that their chances of registering was slim, feared to take a chance that might delay or ruin their chanco of arrival slim as U was. Now all that is changed. No actor considers the pictures beneath him. Tho player with a reputation on tho regular stage appears In .the pictures for a season, and goes hack to his first Jove with a wider audience and a better contract. con-tract. Algernon Buskin, the regular stage idol, may bo kr,cwn only In the big cities. Visitors and sightseers from tho back districts may read his nanip in blazing electric lights and pass him up with no idea of his greatness. But let Algernon take a flyer In tho movies, and then go back to tho legitimate, and tho next time tourists from Waxahatchle. Tex., or Long Lane, Ha., or Marked Tree, Ark., pee his name up in front of a theater they wilj say: "Oh, we know him. We "saw him In a movie play down at the Dreamland last month." And thev will march In and put down their money to bo able to say they have heard as well as 3een Algy act. |
