Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-30
FLASHES FROM STARS"

ELAShEO fIoOM OlAIC
Mary Pickford has been called the queen of
the movies" the "sweetheart of America" and
many extravagant press-agent names. Mary
Pickford is as popular in the movies as Bern
hardt. Mrs. Fiske and Lillian Russell have been
in their '1nes OF regular drama. Mary Pick
ford is said to receive salary OF $4,000
year
Miss Pickford came to Philadelphia yes
terday, was given dinner last evening at the
Bellevue Stratford by Stanley Mastbaum, OF the
Stanley Company and attended the movie
production of Behind the Scenes" at the
Stanley Theatre in which she appears.
Confronted by dozen dramatic critics, all
asking questions about the movies" Miss
Pickford was ingenuousy embarrassed. She
visibly lacked that composure, that blase in
difference, that aloof Observation-Disclosures
which stars of drama evnce when confronted
by "the press"
Miss PiclSford is charning-especially charm
ing because of her unacquainted girlishness.
her naive ingenuousness. She last played in
regular drama in David Belascos production,
"A Good Little Devil" But she prefers the
movies to Legitimate drama"
81 work from ! in the morning until at
night in the 'movies,'" said Miss Pickford.
I'm so tired at night I just want to rest. I
the movies than the drama. 1 reach so many
more people you know. AS for the work, it
is just as hard, II not harder. When 1 act
for movie, 1 talk. you know, and II the other
actors do not talk and act in sympathy with
their parts it affects my work. In acting for
the moving pictures one must pay a lot more
attention to facial expression and real acting
than on the stage. You don't have the advan-
tage either, OF subdued lights you do on
the real stage Nor you be yourself For
the movies | play character I forget all about
myself; in fact | am never Mary Pickford. but
the character I play. That is necessary to be
successful in the movies"
And therein lies the difference between being
a star of the drama and the movies. Duse.
whatever her part. is forever Duse. Bern
hardt. whether she appears as Tosca or
L'Aiglon, is inevitably Bernhard Mrs. Fiske
is Mrs. Fiske behind the exterior of Nora,
in the DOLLS House." Salvation Nell" or
Becky Sharp" Julia Marlowe is Marlowe
despite Shakespeare. On the stage personality
makes the star In the movies" the person
alty that is absolutely submerged in character
succeeds.
Louis y. Parker's new play. THE Highway
of Life" produced at Wallacks Theatre.
New York. Monday night. It was the authors
Majesty's Theatre in London with Sir Herbert
Tree. War conditions in Europe however
have made this impossible The play is based
on David Copperhed," and has been elabo-
rately staged by the I.ebler Company. The
long cast OF this Dickens play reintroduces to
theatregoers Emmett Corrigan as "DanT
Pegotty, and Lennox PawIe as Micawber The
cast includes ]. v Bryant, Miss Eva Vincent.
Prince Miller, Miss Rhoda Beresford. Master
John Healy Miss Edyth Latmer. Vernon
Steel. Philip Touge, Fred Nichols Lionel Deane
Bouve Souther Tracey Barrow. Leslie Ryecroft
Alfred Buckaw, Miss Emma Chambers, Miss
Dorothy Parker, J. II. Green, Miss Louie
Emery Miss Ann Gascon, Mrs Maggie Fisher
Master Emmett Bradley. Miss Airline Dewey
Miss Gladys Bradley. Miss Rieser o. II Heg-
gle, Miss Helen Weathersby and Miss Mabel
stanton,
Virginia Brooks. daughter OF Joseph Brooks