The Prescott daily news., 1915-07-24
John Bunny, the Man Who Made
 9O,OOO,OOO People Laugh Daily

 world millions of people were laugh l ing at his antics on the screen. h. deed, some of the moving picture peo pie have estimated that in all parts of the world Bunny has played to daily audience of ninety millions-al~ most the population of the United States.
 The story of the success of John Bunny is the story of a modest man who at last found his place in the world. All his life he had been a CO., median, but the stage had not been his medium for expressing his pecu liar style of comedy. Always had he it was not until the latter part of 1910 that John Bunny came into his own.
 The theatrical season had been dull and Bunny turned to the movies for a job. They gave him a trial.
 He's fat and he may be funny" was the comment when he was en- gagged
 Forty dollars a week was his first salary, just as $2,000 week was his last. He had been at work on pie lures only a few weeks when de- mand for photographs of the fat man began to arrive. So a special pose of Bunny, his head thrown back and laugh prevailing his countenance, was taken. The picture was scattered broadcast over the country thousands of copies were made and still the demand was not filled.
 The laugh that was destined to make a fortune for the man was a mirth provol<er! literally it drove dull care away. Crying babies would look at it and a chuckle would replace the fretful whine of the youngster. Con- Istitutional "grouches" were changed to good-natured ethusiasts, and Bunny was the cause of it all.
 Of the man himself but little was known to the millions of people who laughed at and with him. He was modest and retiring, and an artist. His success lay in the fact that he knew how to do funny thing in funny way.
 Bunny was always quiet spoken, his voice was never raised and it is re- ,,,o ,.l-- bIo +bo+ o,-o,, |, +l,o v,;ldac+ +,,r moil of roughhouse scenes his voice was not added to the din. When he spoke it was with knowledge. He had been in all parts of the world, even as his pictures are now being exhibited in every section of the globe, and he had observed and remembered.
 Bunny was as unassuming during his last week with the Vitagraph Con- pony as he was during his early weeks. | This man, whose face attracted be- tween $90,0O0 and $10O,00O to the box offices of moving picture theaters the world over, was democratic to a mark ed degree. It is related of him by May Maurice C"Mother Maurice of ne rovies') that shortly before he left the Vitagraph Cou.pany hc went tc her and said.
 "They are awfully stupid about in- troducing people around here. I'm John Bunny" and he stuck out his hand
 The quick rise of John Bunny to the crest of popularity shows to some eX tent the wonderful spread of the nov ing picture industry. Here was a man who only few years before had been unkown to the world, and yet in less than two years his face became the best known in the world. Wherever the art of moving pictures extended there Bunny enscounced himself in the hearts of picture goers.
 Even into the interior of China had Bunny's face been carried. This wide spread fame often caused amusing mistakes and frequently brought em- barrassment to big men, physically. Perhaps the most ludicrous mistake of all was when former President Taft was followed through the streets of New Haven shortly after he had left the predidental chair by a number of swall boys who shouted greetings to their Bunny. The former president himself told the story.
 To what extent the popularity of moving pictures is due to John Bunny 1 is hard to estimate. He was first to