Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-02
n The Photoplay Editor

thina from the store but the
iifs the brag of Mae Hotely about
~ nav costume.
a. ,sed to pride herself on the tact
mai she never wore the same twice, put
w has become the day of the trade
~, W., clothes and the Lubin comedienne
nln ,o,o line with the rest of them, big
-. ~ end ali But instead of having
es'.,.,o 49, Z made that would advertise itself
.nsti,yne. made for the express pur-
80 n being funny, she took trip from
ktJantIo CITY to Philadelphia, where a
ssarch OF the stores yielded a hat as
fpnny as anything that might be espe-
clally manufactured and 1t is lslo mooel,
~ that. So, too, is the suit. II came
s,ehf ont OF stock and has not been al
tn,ad hut the boots were quite another
Misa Hotely realized that to be funny
-yithout big boots was impossible at the
,ann,ant or. more correctly, she should
bejong to the 33d degree unless she wore
The regalia, 80 she hunted up a shoe
maker in Atlantic City. She told MIN
what she wanted, but he refused 10 pc
Ieve her. He insisted upon taking her
measurements, end assured her that the
hhoes would be plenty large enough to
BE- comfortable. She assured him that
she wanted shoes large enough to be
most uncomfortable. 1t was unbeliev-
able He shook his head. Even the in
formation that she played in motion pic
tures carried no enlightenment to the
son Of Sunny Italy. He didn't know
whether she was drunk or crazy, and he
did not care, but he would make no
boots.
Then she had an inspiration. She went
back to the studio and borrowed a pair
Of boots from Billie Reeves. Two min
utes later she strolled in on the shoe
maker with the "scows' protruding from
beneath her lingerie dress. Make them
like this" she explained, and when the
poor man came out of his trance he did
as Exhibit A will show.
Commencing in October, the Vitagraph
Company will release a Sidney Drew
picture every Friday, inaugurating what
will be known as Sidney Drew Day"
Mr.. Drew will direct all the pictures in
which he appears, playing opposite his
wife.
A most amusing and totally unintended
combination appeared Saturday in huge
posters advertising the attractions of the
current week at the Stanley Theatre. One
side Of the sixteen-sheet poster called at
tention to, the fact that Mary Pickford
would be seen In Rags; the other half
setting forth the appearance of Pauline
Frederick in Sold" But after the bill
printer and bill-poster got through with
It, the words reading Rags" and sold
appeared on the sarhe line and to the
casual reader it appeared as rags Sold"
Ine bill, for that reason is attracting
considerable attention.
The movies as a health cure appeal to
May Ward.
Not that she really needs it. Any
vaudeville fan can tell you that the
Dresden doll Coincidence has pinker
cneeks than any rouge box can furnish,
ana vitality that nothing but a healthy
nody and healthy mind can account for.
All the same, Miss Ward votes for the
photoplay as a road to health. as well
as wealth and happiness. AS vaude-
VIE headliner. she used to finish work
by H. get to bed at 12 or 1. and never
Ds up again before noon. All the while
Il was stuffy theatres, dusty dressing
rooms and the Pullmans. Now she lives
In an old Colonial house in Germantown.
gets up every morning at 6, rides off into
tne country and spends the day In the
open air filming "A Continental Girl"
ipr the new Continental Photoplay Cor
poration, which induced her to desert
vaudeville for the movies.
II you should happen to call on Miss
ward when she's through her days work
-and that's just about supper time-youd
nave to dodge her flour-covered hands
anu shake the upper part of her foreS
ann For another of the joys of acting
n NE movies. Miss Ward finds, is al
most unlimited domesticity. In between
work on "A Continental Girl" and
lhfough the evenings, she can mess
round in the kitchen or talk to her pets
ane has is of them.
hlgnl now Miss Ward is also Colonial
ssly Colonial II started acting at 49,"
sne says II had six years with AL
MOODS when Busy Bertha was a beau
utll cloak model instead of a two-ton
shsll I've played all sorts of things in
sA1aeyille since the critics woke up to
my existence with The Cash GIRL I've
oeen called the Dresden doll coincidence.
ana I've done nut stuff' of the Tanguay
ssIiety But this Is the first time I've
ever been Colonial"
sui don't think sheis demure. No
pholopiay star can be that, even In our
klsat- t-grandmothers' days. In "A Con.
mental Girl Miss Ward has to climb a
- spole paddle an Indian canoe, shoot a
~ dance a minuet and ride a gal
'2plas morse, And the only one OF these
epssanons that she had a bowing ae-
<eaihtAnee w. with beforehand is the last