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Show This Director Is Just as Much at Home in Front of v3amera as He Is Telling Others How to Act. ILr ACK RICHARDSON Is as well X-x known as an actor as he Is as a director. In fact, he Is . one of these all-around geniuses who arc found around many studios, who are Just as much at home out In front of the camera acting out a play, as they arc with a scenario telling other people how to do It. Rlchardspn is now directing most of tho time, ' but when it is necessary he crops his scrips ana dons the sock and buskin of the screen and proves himself as good a player as any one. Richardson's work as an actor has been mostly most-ly in heavy leads, and It has been said that If a dictionary of tho movies were over complied, that tho word villain would bo followed by the I words Jack Richardson, as a definition. ; This player is said to havo earned more hisses and hate than any other screen scamp in the profession, and as hisses and hate are the only .! applause tho villain ever gets, ho 1b mighty proud of his record. Richardson's work has not been entirely of a ; villainous character, however. His appearance t makes him fitted to portray any part, and ho can change the leopard spots of his doublo-deal-Ing and heroine kidnaping at will and portray :j a "goody goody" part with great facility, j Tho ability to act must bo combined with a i knowledge of'the world and its manners and customs. No man. no matter how good an ac- tor he may bo, can successfully depict all tho emotions demanded by the drama without hav-: hav-: : lng been a keen observer. Richardson has had a great deal of experience, experi-ence, has traveled and seen much of tho world. l He was born In New York City thirty years ago and educated at tho Culver Military Academy. Acad-emy. Ho began hus work as an actor six years ! ngo with tho Sell Polyacope Company in Chi cago. After that ho played heavy leads with the New York Motion Picture Company for awhile, and then went to the American Studios I at Santa Barbara, Cal. I ' Richardson's work as a player has been a f great help to him as a director. Actors usually i make tho best directors. They know how to ' map out a scene and how to Instruct other j plaVers to portray the parts as a result of having the actual experience themselves. |