The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-03-23
DUSTIN FARNUM IS
DONE WITH STAGE
NO REAL MONEY IN IT, CELE-
DRAFTED ACTOR DISCOVERS
AFTER SEEING FRIEND.
GOES AFTER "KALE"
SUCCESS OF ASSOCIATE OF HIS
EARLY DAYS INDUCES HIM
TO TAKE UP MOVING
PICTURES.

Dustin FarnumI so he says has left
the stage. He did SO last night at the
closing performance OF '"The Littlest
Rebel' in the Academy. Not that the
season for the play has closed. 1t
will continue to interest the theater-
going public for many a day, but Dus-
tin Farnum will not be a member of
the company. His days as an actor
are done Anyway that is what Mr..
Farnum says.
There is no money IN acting, Mr..
Farnum declares. At least, there is
not money enough for Mr.. Farnum.
Ordinary actors when they think of
the salary paid Mr.. Farnum may won
der and inquire of nothing in partic-
ular what Mr.. Farnum wants. the sal
airy of the president Of the steel trust
or Just little ordinary million year.
Not that Mr.. Farnum gets a million
year. but TO the ordinary actor 1t
seems a million, and is just as far out
of his reach as a million.
What Mr.. Farnum Gets.
1t can be stated on the authority of
the treasurer of any company that Mr..
Farnum gets considerably more than
$40 weekly. but he isn't satisfied. He
says that wouldn't pay for the gaso-
line of motor car, not to mention a
motor boat and a hydro-aeroplane. So
Mr.. Farnum has quit the stage. He
wants to run motor boat, an auto
mobile, and maybe a hydro-aeropiane.
~, II. Il
the air or the water, or capsize IN
etther-not ether.
So Dustin Farnum has really quit
the stage. He says that he has to
get some real money; that he has fool
ed with the stage article long enough.
He is after the cush. the mazuma, the
long green. the kale, the coin. the real
stuff-in other words, money sure
enough money. And he cannot get it
on the stage.
That CALIFORNIA; Visit.
Mr.. Farnum's decision came after
n visit to California. There he saw a
friend was riding around in a big six
he aspired to be a leading man or a
matinee IDOL and was neither. This
friend was riding around ma big six
cylinder. self-starter, eighteen inches
of upholstery car, with a shofar look
~
wolf hound. a tiger and an astronomer
from the university of Tokyo. footing
on q siren that enraged every pedes-
trian within three miles, which was
its maximum range.
Mr. Farnum became jealous right
away. Why, he knew that fellow when
he didn't have sou markee. He knew
him when he used to use liquid shoe
dressing to disguise the biushing toes
that tried not to peep through the
cracks in his shoes He knew him
when the pigs head free lunch at
Brady's was life saver, quarter was
luxury. and dollar opulence. He
knew him when he had bluffed even a
New York landlady into believing he
would get money from home IL she
would only let him stay another week
without paying in advance for his hall
room He knew him when
But what's the usei Here he was
riding around in a big gypsy top, trans
formable limousine, eighty miles an
hour flyer that would make ANYTHING
on the coast eat dust, reclining on the
eighteen-inch upholstery with the
nonchalanee of a nabob while flashes
from his shirt front were remindful
of Diamond Jim Brady and Friend
Mccoy. And here HE Nas, Dustin
GA itAtiit al Il pdtIIy lou p6E--npuF
or week-and couldn't rustic two CEN
fury notes together in his best be-
cause hefhad left II at home,
His Friend Sees Him.
And then this friend of his happy
actor days saw him, spoke to the sho-
fer stopped the car in spite of all the
traffic laws right in the middle Of the
sidewalk and invited Dustin Farnum
to get aboard
How do you do. to" gasped Mr..
Farnum as they whirled off, saIuting
the crossing cop, who saluted in re-
turn.
THE movies" replied the other, d.
vining at once what Mr.. Farnum
meant. Right then and there Dustin
Farnum decided that art might be
art but time was fleeing. and no
matter how much II grieved his soul
for the moment, no doubt 1t would be
quickly assuaged in the joy OF hun
dred horse power automobile, a sixty
knot motor boat and a hydro-aero-
plant capable of 100 miles an hour,
allow or aloft He would go into the
moving picture business.
And that is why Dustin Farnum has
quit the stage. He is going to Cali
fornia to take up the moving picture
business with his prosperous friend
lac 10 %tttlE 10 ilNe ike MIN III tIlS
wonders of Arabian Nights and Cali
fornia days.
Say he observed to his friend as
they handed dust to a tourist In q
poor old sixty. don't you sometimes
wonder at the days when
Hush replied his friend, don't
pinch me, shake me or speak too loud.
I'll wake up"