The Washington times., 1915-12-10
Pearl White One OF
the Big "Show Me"
Family Who Also
Shoes Others

The popular impression that Mis-
so,rians must be shown doesn't go
quite far enough-because after being
shown they like to demonstrate the
thing shown to the rest of the world.
If anyone Is looking for II very flt-
ting example of this. which will also
be an explanation of number Of
things that have happened in mo-
tion pictures in the last year or two.
Pearl White can give it. The in
stigator of the thrills Of the "Perils
of Pauline" and the Exploits of
Elaine" is a Missouri product. And
she has been devoting her life re-
Gently to acquiring knowledge about
and showing others, a wide variety
Of things
There are few thrilling things that
have not happened to Miss White
GUS career in motion pictures. She
has made notes of them and is writ
Ing a book of personal memoirs.
Consequently 1t is bit difficult to
get her to talk about herself because
she appreciates the art of springinG
she wants TO spring herself on the
public in book form all at once.
However. there are some things
that have leaked ont about
George VauX Bacon managed to COL
ticle in the Photoplay Magazine OF
current issue. And here are some OF
the things he writes: ,...-.
Down in Missouri. where the nat
banks Of the Mississippi begin to rise
into the foothills of the Ozark noun
YOU stub your toe against one while
you're trying to keep from bump
Ing your head into another. there
was, and is. settlement Of ap-
'proximately two hundred and fifty
souls. They don't have any race sui
has remained the same for genera
ton in spite of excursions by some
Of the people to the cities and occa-
sional lamented deaths of others dur
ing week-ends when the men are
apt to get 'market-merry' and burn
gunpowdcr.
"The name of the settlement is
Greenrldge. A few miles from there.
in a pine slab cabin. the red-headed
Miss Pearl White. who these days is
driving a yellow roadster in Man
haitian. was born.
Attaining the age OF five and
new gingham dress. she was greeted.
one day. by a man on horseback
while she was toting water from the
family well in the back yard (Which
consisted of the whole western half
Of the United States. as the cabin
faced the casD. and asked II she
knew a place where he could stop
over. for the night.
She brought MIN home with her,
and he was put up in her fathers
cabin. 1t developed, In the course of
the dinner of 'sow-belly,' eggs,
ory that the stranger was the man
aEer of an Uncle Toms Cabin show
which was travelling in that general
direction. He had been obliged to
go TO the county seat for some legal
tangle his company was in. and was
at the nearest railroad town, some
thirty miles distant,
The small carrot-top Of a girl.
thereupon, to the amazement and
amusement Of the manager, recited
Hsmlet's soliloquy for, his benefit.
and asked him FOR job.
The theatrical man happened to
have sense of hurnor, and accept
ed her on the spot, guaranteeing her
IS a week and grub rs long as the
show stayed on the road. The next
day, clinging gleefully to the back
of his horse, with her arms tight
around her new manager. she sailed
forth from ner ancestral home in
quest of the pot of gold that lies
at the end of the theatrical rainbow.
She started classically as Little
Eva. remaining with the wandering
Year on teaching ckieaeo, Which
had been the starting point OF the
from her father and mother inform
Ing her that they had left the cabin
and moved into town-mearins