The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-08-01
Goes BACK TO
THE MOVIES"


The announcement that Miss Flor
enee Lawrence, one OF the most popu-
lar and beautiful faces seen on the
screen. is To join the picture forces
Will be greeted with delight by thous-
ands of her admirers in all parts of
the country, for IL will sgnalize her
return 10 the motion picture stage
Miss Lawrence never made any an
nouncement that she was to retire;
she merely dropped out. Such pro-
c.durt usually results in this country
in AN actress or IA public man or any
one ia the public eye being soon for
.otten. This is busy country and we
are too much occupied with what is
before us 10 worry about what is not,
But this did not happen in the case
Of Miss Lawrence. Her public did not
forget her When her face ceased To
appear on the Lubin films she began
20 receive hundreds of letters from
PEOPLE all over the United States. ask
ing why she was not acting any more.
The actual reason for her retirement
was her farm in RVerdale, y. j. The.
actress lives In a fifty acre estate about
fifteen miles from Fort Lee, y. j. The
farm Is all but inaccessible to any
thing except an automobile, and this
is the way Miss Lawrence reaches IL.
There il a railroad connecting a few
miles away, but the service on the To-
cal division is too uncertain To bother
with.
Last spring, as the buds We're be-
ginning 10 burst, and every green thing
was putting forth it's best efforts tn
make itself beautiful, Miss Lawrence
caught the spirit of the country az
never before. She had long cherished
al ambition to grow "A hybrid rose,
which she could call all her own. She
has always been passionately fond of
flowers and particularly roses. Now
she would take the opportunity to
crafty her ambition and become a rose
fancier on scale not possible when |
one has To devote all the day To the |
production OF moving pictures. So she !
quietly dropped out of the pictures and |
retired To the farm at Riverdale, there |
10 apply herself to Florence Rose"
She had studied Luther Burbank's |
methods and she set To work to Guilt
vate a rose 10 NIL the longings of her |
Imagination. Ii is well under way |
now
Bat in the meantime the directors of |
the Universal were looking for just |
such person as Miss Lawrence, and,
in tact, for Miss Lawrence herself, and
when the Universal wants anything
badly enough II usually gets il. 1t
got Miss Lawrence.
IL Is for that reason that this popu-
.ar screen tayorite will be seen on the
Universal program. She will begin at
once series Of two and three-reel
MINIS under the direction of her hus-
band, Harry Salter. They will be re-
leased under the Victor brand. and will
be available in the course of month
OF TWO. The directors viii see To ii
that they will be among the most i'm
portant films ever released.
Miss Lawrence is an acquisition to
moving picture ranks through the leg
tlmate. Six years ago she came To
the Edison and has been successfully
with the Nitagraph, Biograph, Imp and
Lubln companies. One of the first of
TIE famous pictures i'm which she APP
peared was The Dispatch Girl"
military Vitagraph drama In the Bio
tfaph she appeared in The Resource
uoh ond Lady Helen's Escapade" In
'he imp her best known pictures are:
mother Love- and The Maelstrom,"
ana in the Lubin she is best remem-
pered IN The Hoydon' and "A Show
Girls strategem."