Gilpin observer., 1915-08-12
MISS MYRTLE STEDMAN
LOVES GlLPIN COUNTY

In tie current number of "Picture
Progress" a periodical published for
the entertainment and edification of
the motion picture players, appears, a
very interesting sketch of Miss Myr-
tie Stedman, a prominent queen of
the movies. Miss Stedman is an old
Gilpin county girl, and in giving a
narration of her girlhood days when
she lived in the picturesque hamlet
of American City, indicates that she
still entertains a very kindly feeling
for Gilpin county. A portion of the
article appearing in Picture Pro-
gress" follows:
In London and Berlin, Buenos
Aires and Sydney. not to mention
the forty-eight states of our Union,
they know Myrtle Stedman as a
photcplay actress of real ability.
I'm Chicago perhaps they know her
also for her rich mezzo soprano
which gained Eer fame throughout
the Middle West during her prima
donna days with the light opera
forces of the music-loving Whitneys.
I'm Canyon City, Colorado, the men
in State Prison know her as tire girl
with tie golden hair and the golden
voice WHO once was kind enough to
come and sing for them; anything
from the Lullaby from Goddard's S
'Jocelyn" to ''Tammany' and "Way
Down Upon the Swannee River"
But in the fashionable Vendome
Street bungalow colony out in the
Wiltshire district of residential Los
Angeles, Myrtle S.edman is known
for something far beyond these
things. In word, her fame is watt
ed to the four corners of the earth,
carried on the four winds of heaven
all because of her Butter Scotch
Pie
"Vendome is a little wonder-spot
of trailing vines, artistic pergolas.
smart, well-kept lawns, and great.
deep bungalow porches, delightful.
roomy and comfortable. 1t is a place
of homes. Its life is homelike. It's
! women prefer their homes to the
mezzanines of the cafes downtown.
Too, it makes ones heart warm to
this young girl, who. for all her busy
profe ssional career, is yet woman
| enough to find her real delight in
working at the old-fashioned arts of
the kitchen.
Viewing it through Miss Myrtle's
to be some considerable fame to which
Miss Myrtle has been daintily as
cending by means OF this ladder of
crisp, well-shortened pie crust, the
ladder itself firmly grounded upon
the foundation of hundred other de-
licious recipes.
Viewing it through Miss Myrtle's
own eyes, II seems quite as attract
i've a fame too. With all the rest
OF US, she likes 10 have people like her
1t pleases her that people have said
SO many lovely things Of her work
in photoplays. 1t pleases her that
the Chicago musical critics called her
work at the Whitney Opera House
a grand opera success But despite
all this, Miss Myrtle frankly con.
fesses her one big. honest hope-to-
die achievement, in her own estima-
ton, is having my own little home,
and she confesses that deep down
In her heart she Is pleased the most
when people telephone her for her
recipes or praise That Butter Scotch
Pie
Miss Stedman was born in Chica-
go and educated there. Her father
was q business man and an old soldier.
Her mother was singer OF note,
and Miss Stedman seems to have
inherited her voice. She had the ad-
vantage OF a musical education, stud
led elocution and voice culture. 4
am the youngest she said. the baby
OF the family-spoiled?- / am
glad ! was. 1t Is nice to be the
youngest and be petted and fused
over. l had a jolly girlhood. and al.
though I was a bad scholar generally
l was devoted to music, and my par
ents had me specially trained for