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Show H' BY A. H. GIEBLEB. I "F UST bccauso he looks after Son's I y welfare and takes him up In the ? utile find whangs the cvorlast- H) In er daylights out of him when ho Hj catchos him smoking cigarettes, and t pays his way through colloge and out of tho various pcrapes ho gets Into, S J Father Is usually given most of the credit for whatever of success Son may issssfl i j achieve. s Although Mother has also helped, she looks like an also ran when tho score Is counted up after Son has got his seat ; In Congress, painted his big picture, H) sawed somebody's leg; off or rcliovcd flj some citizen of his appendix better H than any other doctor could have H' dope It. fl I It Is when Daughter steps out and ;! ( makes a big mark on the map of tho !; world's activities as a writer, painter, Hi singer or player that Mother shows up Hlt In Tier true colors as an assistant carver Hl i of careers. H Ask almost any player on the screen who has registered' anywhere up in the ;l i neighborhood of 100 per cent on the Hj; ladder of famo to namo some of the Hi things that contributed to that success, I and It Is ten to one that nine out of j! I ten will say, "Well, Mom helped a lot." I Then look around and you will seo ! H, i that in most cases "Mom" is still on i H. the Job, still helping to make tho suc- cess bigger and bigger, seolng to It that , Daughter docs not stumble along the I H road and lose any of tho hard-earned H' J ground she has gained. Hl'i Dad in at the Killing. Hh Of courso Daddy has done his bit. Ho ! Hh has brought homo the pay envelope on H Saturday night that fed Mother and !; Hjl! Daughter and furnished Daughter with Hj ktho clothes, car fare and camoufiago ! she needed In hor pursuit of the wlll-o-W thc-wlsp of fame. Ho was In at the !; H killing and rejoiced-as much 'as any-Hj, any-Hj, bod when tho elusive creature was ji Hi caught, barbecued and Its hide hung ) UP In tho family woodshed to dry. H No member of the family pointed to tho Hhlnlng row of electric bulbs that ; K spoiled Daughter's namo up over tho ', H'; Droamland Theater with any more ! W prido than did Dad. H But Mother, dear old "Momslo," was ; H tho ono that helped tho most. She gavo Hl ; llio kind of help that Father did not I 4 know how to start to begin to furnish. H Mother wan tho ono to whom Daugh- H tor went with all her troubles and J j' heartaches things she would never ! H ! ave thought of bothering Father with. H Mother was tho sure comforter at all 1 Hl Imos of trouble. H It Is always the mothers who do the ! H iclplng of this kind, and they nearly H ilwayo help the daughters, not that ' B they need It any moro than do tho sons, M but for Homo absolutely Illogical and ! H i unreasonable reason It Is not considered H manly for Sonny Boy to come home H j and cry out his troubles and heartaches H I on Mother's shoulder. It doesn't seem B lo be done In any set, H The young pup must go down to tho H Princess pool parlor or to somo near-by H pin mill and take the false comfort H from carcfr.co friends and a few strong H drinks to bolster up his weak and un-H un-H faltering spirit, while all tho time Hj Mother ia waiting and willing to give H advice and encouragement that would H: have cleared the wholo atmosphere of H woo and eend Sonny back to the task, V problem, or uhatcvor it was that bur-H bur-H innoA him. with the right kind of cour-H cour-H tge and a clear head. H Screen Mothers Adepts. Many of the screen plnycrn are fortu-B fortu-B ia(c In having mothora who were al-H" al-H" cady adepts In tho profession they H( (ought to adorn. Those mothers wore H blo to glvo their ambitious daughters j- nioro help than tho kind whoso occupa-V occupa-V Hon was set down in the census reports 'r under tho head of Ken'l h'wk. But cach klnd of mother helped to tho H' best of her ability; each kind sympa-thized sympa-thized and encouraged when set-backa H and rough places were met with along u the road; cach kind rejoiced at advances. ad-vances. And all along the road, nnd all through everything, both kind of mothers moth-ers mndo sacrifices and submerged ambitions am-bitions of their own for their daughters' sakes. If the truth wero known, it would probably be found that tho mothers who wero actresses themselves mud the greatest sacrifices, for it must 1)3 ro-mombered ro-mombered that the actress' mother who helped her daughter fan her spark of genius Into a big blaze was allowing the embers of the same kind of fire In hor own soul to smolder into the gray ashes of disappointment. This mother's sacrifice bogan tho day sho told tho manager of the company thatshe would not be able to go out with the show tho next season on ac- count of having to play tho ro'e of nurse to a new star whose premier on the stage of life wa3 expected In a fow months. This first back scat for Mother was followed by ono still farther back. Thon tho parquet gavo way to tho family circle; cir-cle; thon tho balcony, and by the tlmo Daughter was old enough to seo hor ', namo on tho program Mother was way up In the gallery, playing mother parts 1 In her profession as well as at homo. ; Privilege of Motherhood. ' These' sacrifices wero always made ! willingly, however. No real mother ' ever regretted hor children's presence or is Jealous of their successes. Tho privilege of motherhood Is of moro moment than all tho famo In tho world to most women, and tho mother who gavo up her own career know that she was getting something bigger and bettor In return that sho was fulfilling tho dlvlno ordination nnd assuring hor-solf hor-solf of tho warmth of filial devotion that burns with a stronger and moro steadfast fiamo than tho blggc3t bonfire of famo that was over kindled, i Somo of tho greatest successes the j film stars have mado may bo traced dl-; dl-; rectly to tho efforts of tho stars' molh-! molh-! cs. Many of tho movlo mothors are the constant companions of their talented children. Others act as business manu- sers as well. ! Mrs. Plckford, tho mothor of tho astoundlngly celebrated "Little Mury," la her daughter's business adviser. Mrs. f Plckford Is regarded as ono of the ! keenest business womon connected with the film Industry. Tho fact Is fully evidenced by the record tho Plckford family has mado In tho art. I This rcmarkablo woman Is tho mother ;! of three well-known screen players. In ' addition to Mary, whoso namo Is a !; household word, tboro Is young Jack, ucarcely a lap behind his sister and running fast and true lo the Plckford j! form, and Lottie Mrs. Rupp In private !' life as talented as either her sister or !; brother, I Over to the Pictures. Lottlo Plckford has not appeared in films for somo time, bocausc cho Is a movlo mother herself, slnco a daughter arrived at her homo not long ago. c Mrs. Pickford was a well-known nc-( nc-( tress, and together with her family (all tho children wore young at this time) was making an envlab'.o record pu tho regular stage when the pictures v. ere I born. She saw the possibilities of tho films and moved over from tho stage to ' the studio. This took a great de.-fl of ncrvo at ; that time, because It was when the ', movies wero In a crude state and no ! one. knew whother they wero going to be a permanent success or just a pass- Ing fad. Mrs. Plckford had tho far-i far-i seeing Judgment to correctly gaugo tho j public mind In tho matter, hownver, and tho fact that her Judgment was justl- fled by tho growth of tho most rcmark- ablo Industry tho world has ever known I is a flno testimonial to her forc3ishL t No doubt tho precocious Plckfords would havo mado a nmc for them- selves on tho speaking stage, but novcr !; as great as thoy havo made In thcplc- tures. It would havo taken Mary and '', Jack a much longer tlmo to Impress '; their engaging personality on the largo !; audlonco they havo won had the slago !' been their medium, Instead of tho j! soreon. ; Mrs. J. D. Chlldcrs, mother' of Naomi !; of the classic features, is a movie mother who has been a powerful fac-! fac-! tor In her daughter's success. Mrs. ;! Chlldcrs educated hor .daughtor for the ! concort stago nnd saw that sho was a !j finished artist beforo sho made her ! first appearance, ', After a short but successful career 'I along came an Invitation to the plc-!; plc-!; tures. A consultation was held. It S might bo a good thing and It might I not; It might mean success and it might I s mean failure; a loss of tlmo and be- s ginning all over again in music. No I i ono knew where Naomi was going 5 when sho wont over to the pictures, but S j! it looked good to mother, and "moth- or was right." , Mrs. Shelby, tho mother of Mary ? !' Miles Minter, is another movlo mother ' that manages her daughtor, from a S ! business standpoint, and sees to It that ; her young genius goLs all that is com- I !' Ing to her from tho producers. Nova j! Gorber and her mother arc Inseparable, $ and no business matter of importance s is over considered without a serious 1; consultation with Ma Gerbcr. Anna i !' Little, who changed her namo when ' sho wont Into tho pictures, and her S mother. Mrs. Brookes, occupy tho same !; kind of classification in the catalogue !; of film, mothors and daughters. ' Junnita Hansen and her mothor are another pair that swear by ono an- other, and Mrs. Hansen is so young !; looking that when Juanlta sends kodak !' pictures of tho pair to friends she j! marks tho pictures so: "This is Mother S '! and this Ib me." ' ! Several of the stars have their moth- i ors in direct competition with them in tho pictures. Tho mother of EJJa Hall S ! Is well-known to tho screen and fre- ! nucntly plays in tho same production ? I' with her young daughter. Mrs. Eddy, j! the mother of Helen Eddy, often ap- I ! pears in tho same films, and in a re- cent Lasky feature Mrs. teddy played j' the part of mother to George Beban, I who had the part of swoctheart to Helen, and after tho film w'edding sho was mother-in-law to her own daughter. Other rnovio mothers besides Mrs. Plckford havo a wholo , constellation of stars to look after. ! The Flugrath family Is a remarkable example of this kind. Mrs. Flugrath is j the mother of Edna, who has kept tho family namo, as well as of Viola Dana nnd Shirley Mason. This quartet was 1 striking ten on the regular stage, but Ma Flugrath decided to take Iter bunch J of lalont ovor to the movies, whero thoy havo boon repeating the perform- once with the samo regularity J Mrs, Talmadgo lias two stars to look J after In the persons of tho well-known Talmadgo sisters, Norma and Con- 1 stance. Tho Gish family Is another In- j stance. Both Lillian and Dorothy sny thero Is no ono llko mother, nnd Mrs. Gish Is as proud of her two geniuses j as sho can be. ) Nona Thomas and Ollle Klrby, al- though of different name, claim tho same "Mom" as a comforter and ccn- i stant adviser. Taking It by and largo all tho cvl- dencc that hns ovor been collected on s the subject seems to load to the con- ' elusion that mothers are pretty fine In- ; stltutlons nnd mighty comforting to havo around. Many of them can guide ! and advise daughters much bettor thin I1 she can cnglnoor harself when It comes ; to buslnoss matters. Thoy are always ready with comfort and sympathy when It Is needed, and thero Is not ono of !; them hut has a touch to her hands that will take the woarlnoss out of tlrod limbs and the wrlnklos out of worried brows hotter than any system of mas- ! sago ever Invented. ; : -STUDIO NOTES I EDWARD SHULTER, Metro toch- j nical dlroctor, Is' a plonoor of tho motion picture Industry and i used to doslgn and erect sots at tho 5 old Blograph studio In tho oarly days. Ho remembers tho oarly efforts of manv ? ! of his co-workors, both players and ! stars, who arc now tho loaders In tlia s motion picture world. S. Every lima "Fatty" Arbucklc buys a ! package of "smoko" for. himself ho s buys another nnd drops It Into one of I tho various rocoptaclae about tho studio, i believing that no fnlror arrangement 5 ! can ba come to than to treat gome sol- I t dler to a smoke every tlmo he takos ono I I himself. " I ONE of the first things Bosslo Lovo did when sho arrived In Now Yor)i ? ' to work In Pntho plays was to visit tho S famous art colony of Groonwlch VII- s lagc, and sho found tho long-haired men i and the short-haired women so unusual that sho forgot to ask tho tlmo-honorod j' queetlon, "Aro thoy human?" l Ono of Taylon Holmos' early experi- j' encos as 'a comedian was standing in a donkey cart in the streets of London un a bank holiday and reciting 'Ton !; Nights In n Bar Room" slxty-sovon j' times and getting money for it ouch 'time. Fannlo Ward, Patho star, hopoa somp day to have thia time to put down on paper tho Idoas that come to hor for ! good screen storloe whilo sho Is working In plcturos. By tho tlmo she gets home !; from tho studio sho Is too tired with )' the day's work to think of anything. J i AMSWEKS TO li ! PICTURE FANS I !; Slon your name, but alve title to j- I; use In column, Address Photop.ay Editor, care of this paper. I j EORGIE J. Warren KcrrlMa'i! j; Y first piny In hl own company u r ; callwl "A Man's Man," irA jl Lois Wllon Is his leading won-an, lie I ! is 27, and wo havo not hoard that he s i ; !; married. i !; A. D. T. Neal Burns Is no longer 1 ; with Unlvoraal. Ho and GcVtrudr Selb? j . 1 nro maklijg short humorous suby-cti :. I called tho Selburn Comedies, which ari V I released on tho Goneral program. A3- ' 1 5 dross Burns at 72J Seventh avenue, Ne . S York. !; JACK W. The new sea picture wits , ! Annotto Kollennan has not been rt- J j! leased. Cannot say whether it will t 'I as spectacular as "The Daughtc- of tti !; Gods" probably not. Tho cast baa not !' beon given out by tho producer hit i j! thore will bo a lnrgo number of slm. . j! mlng girls In tho watsr econrz. J; QUE EN IE William Dutvan and Carol Holloway lmvo both appear il in V j! five-reel pictures, but novcr In a Er,il together unlll they began The Figiit r I; Jng Trail," Both are with the "Wctcrn ' Vllngraph studio at Hollywood, CA '. R, N. Not all the Jewel prpductrci j. ' are mado at Universal City. Tbar- j. x houser, in New York, and Itulph In.t 1 !; ulso of New York, havo both mado p.c . !' turs for the Jewel program. LtU : w i Wobar has produced aoiuo of Irr ji ; ll jl tures of that bra-nd at Universal City. , i; lOLA Myrtle Sted'nan ha- wl ; ;'' worked In plcturea recently, as she Ki ; It ! been louring the country, making pr- . liOJ ;! sonal appearances In motion picture ) k rr '! ' theaters. Foreat Stanley Is nppfins; J V !; In the stngo production of "Tho BIrdcf j J; Paradise" In Western citlca. j !; SAMMY Taylor Holinee gets M - at tho Eseanay Studio, Chicago, III. Hi m Is at present working In "Ru?r!s of ;! Red Gap," and as ho has signed a fl f I I tract to appear In several Essanav r I I tureu ho will probably not go tad l j tho atnge until those pictures are t I ( vi ,shod- GERTRUDE U Sally Crute Is Hi t Uf7 '! actress who plays opposite Harold Lctk- j.Te I wood In "Tho Aranging Trail. ' 10 4 ud "Tho Gown of Destiny," with Vlnulc- . tKas bens, the name of the actor win tAa : -ne, 5 tho part of the designer Is given a ' f Herrera ToJeddo. 1 6c S WILL M, Havo not hard tlut J Warren Kerrigan ws calird In . , f I draft. As he has bcn sufffring fa M I a broken log recently, he would no dco , Li . be oxempt for the time being. He M S working In Paralta Playa and his a- U tci dross Is Parana Studio. Holly U Vy, i California. j bi, S. N, Violet Memarenu gets mill la care of Bluoblrd Photoplay, icw Broaa- J way. New York. Carmel Myc-is L al , , Universal City. Cal. Mim Myrj Ujw , L her screen careor with Triangle v l lator olayod oppoelU Harold Lockw J In "The Haunted Pajamas." a lt ? ? picture. t , ENDYMION The dlfferonM betwf-J v fc the "open market" and the other ml ; II of booking Alma, la that tho open rrar- ket method permit ono to book onf , !; a dozon films from the exchango optr- j l J' htlng under that syatem. Tho r , way Is to sign a contract that , im run all tho Mima as they are rf4w .1 tlrrough tho "contract exchange f" I A !; certain length of time. Some cxhlM on r prof or ono method, and aome th" c j . ' Theaters having week runs of en v' 5 ; yiT ! turo usually prefer the open r-'k fW I system, but houaea where the V t.t ' changed every day have to ; many films that the-contract f, , (. ! saves the manager time and none. - i '.' itri |