El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-05-08

TLSIE JANIS kited her car along
! Broadway with so much stage
- presence OF mind that even the
! traffic cops had to leap off the cross
/ ings TO save themselves from a fatten-
( ing. Elsie was driving one Of those
/ gray. crouching. inbred, 10000 h p.
! things that skate up mountains in the
/ high and are as likely to go over a tele-
J graph wire as under it Beside her sat
] her mother. You knew it was her
| mother, because the elder woman's Vi
vacity was part and parcel of the
| younger's. This does not mean abso-
lutely that Elsie Janis's fortune-fetch-
I ing vivacity is inherited; YOU know
/ from sitting in the theater how infec-
/ uous IL IS, and il You could see the way
mother sticks TO Elsie off stage, You
would know she has all the opportunity
/ necessary 10 catch anything that is
contagious.
At the first corner Robert Fdeson
lifted his hat TO the late slim Princess
star I'm grateful Acknowledgement that
his Sims had escaped the tires. Half
way down the block good naturei
Maclyn Arbucl5le had rested an elbow
on a green mailboX stOutly clamped to
lamp post and was telling a friend OF
play woman had written around
him so neatly that il fitted a good deal
better than his clothes. Miss Janiss
mother returned Mr. Arbuckle's salute
on behalf Of the daughter, for the rea-
son that the daughters hands were oc-
cupled with the gears in the interest Of
sluggish pedestrians lives and her eyes
We're occupied with a woman in a Law
ender limousine in the interest Of-wcll.
II may have been in the interests of
eternal youth. for the ebullient. bur
nlsned limousine Occupant was Mrs.
Leslie Carter. Though Elsie tarried
hardly long enough to get II, Mrs Car
ter gave her look. Now that look
may have been a mere chance bit OF act
ing. Indeed, II was recognizable as the
look Madame DuBarry bestoWs, in the
busy part Of the second act. upon a Ger
tain young woman whom she fears is
likely 10 displace her in the fancy OF
the king.
Other NotabIes.
Miss Janis was TO meet other Of her
footlight friends. Before her steed drew
up a-Quiver at the Broadway flower
shop toward which he had been Iunging,
she had exchanged smiles or stares with
COurtenay FoOte, Theodore Roberts.
Bessie Barriscale. Edward Abeles. Max
Figman, Lolita Robertson. H. B. War
ner, Edith Taliaferro. James NefII, Mar
guerite Clark Charles Richman and
Winifred Kingston and had loosed swift
bantering words at Dustin Farnum
when she all but locked wheels with I,
his car.
Now here IS one point OF this simple
tale Of Elsie and her cavorting car: The /
time was Saturday afternoon. Elsie /
Janis, Ike every one Of the other stage /
folk she met, was drawing big weekly /
pay Yet in the very midhour of the I
matinees these stars found leisure to I
scorch or stroll along Broadway with }
never a thought Of the stage,
bow may one guess the answer TO +
this riddleE One mayn't; one needs /
must be told. Our stars were all in the I
service OF moving picture companies {
and the kindly fates had blessed them !
with a cloudy Saturday afternoon It !
Is a paradox OF picture acting. you must /
bear in mind. that not even the bright ]
est star may shine unless the sun I
shines, too
The New broadway
But the real surprise is still IN store. !
When star whose salary for the week I
runs trinity into four figures motors 1
along Broadway and meets so many
other fOur-fig ures-a-week stars in half !
a dozen blocks it seems safe to assume /
almost TO take Oath-tbat the Broad J
way referred TO is a certain bedizened /
thOrOughfare which bisects the island /
or Manhattan. And the one who as 4
sumes this is mistaken. while the one
who sWears il may be caught up for
perjury Verify, The Broadway we /
are talking about has one Of its ends I
butting right up against the remote .
Pacific ocean 1t is the main pike OF I
Los Angeles
The Rialtc, how it has shifted,
The PubIie's Fault.
The public is TO be bIamed-or to be
praised7-Wnichever way you look at it.
For the great public, without which the
tWinkling stars could have neither
armament nor focus. has turned from
drama in the old established. form TO
drama in the film. and the worlds cen
ter of the filming industry is sunny Los
Angeles.
The influence that carried the first !
trembling little star out OF his Cor was
II hero accustomed orbit was the mag
netic attraction OF a lump of money Z
Then. another and another fell. and (
finally veritable shower of meteorites (
upset all the calculations Of the Broad
way astronomers. Today the first mag (
nitude star who has not acted ia the
moving picture Is possessed either Of a
bias that is adamant or Of 4 face thar
IS the despair Of the lens.
Actors Like the West.
However much they may affect TO
scorn It, the actors like Los Angeles.
Dustin Farnum said so. At the moment
Of saying il he was stretched comfort
ably among the sweet grasses Of an
evergreen hillside overlooking a hay
valley and waiting for a call to ascend
10 the quarterback OF a reliable steed
that would carry him across the field Of
the camera at the head of the daring
-escuers of-of-well. hang it. the sue
eeeding scene. which might not be
filmed until next month or which. hang
{ again. may have been filmed at the
very beginning OF this inconsequential
-igmarOle, would reveal Just who and
what the rescued was The actors like
il because it affords them change.
Accustomed to 20 about for days and
weeks ahead Of the performance loaded