The Prescott daily news., 1915-07-24

through the antics the he performed Bunny had what is technically known as moving picture technically"
 The present day crop of moving pie ture stars is the outgrowth of the fame of the dead comedian. Of this there can be no doubt. Children hard ly able to lisp his name would beg to see Bunny. There is the difference be- tween the child and the adult. The child did not care about pictures, but it did want to see Bunny.
 It is estimated recently by J. Stuart Blackton of the Vitagraph Company that 5,OOO,OO0 was spent during the year 1913 by the moving picture followers at the various theaters. Of this sum, it is safe to say fully one third was attracked by Bunny person. ally. This may give some faint idea of just how the man attracted millions.
 How many fortunes Bunny made for others there is no way of telling. Own CTS of theaters fought for the privilege of being the first to show the pictures in which he figured, and no matter how great the supply it seemed as lf the demand was always greater.
 There is no way of telling how many people know Bunny on the screen. Kings and peasants, presidents and citizens and millionaires and beggars all have laughed with Bunny
 Perhaps personal experience of the writer's will show something of how Bunny crept into the heart of all. It was in front of picture theater uptown. Looking at the gayly colored Autographs was a sandwich man. He was undersized and looked as though he had never had fair chance in the world. His eyes peering through his spectacles appeared to be starting from his head as he gazed raptly at a picture of Bunny, dressed in soldiers uniform and backed up against wall facing several ugly looking guns in the hands of determined set of men.
 The appeal of the sandwich board mans pathetic figure was too much and a quarter was exchanged with the instruction that it was to be used for the explicit purpose of attending the pictures that night.
 "Aw, boss" replied the man, "Pd rather wait until tomorrow. Bunny's goin' to be here then; don't you see, it says tomorrow ?"
 It is related of several men promi- nent in Washington that they journey to New York and were walking through Twenty third Street when they were attracted by the display out side of theater. Somehow or other they were seized with desire to see that picture show.
 The first picture was a Bunny. It converted the distinguished gentlemen at once. When the show was half over the secretary of one of them, United States senator, pressed the arm of his employer. He explained it was getting late and referred to an urgent engagement uptown.
 GO now?" echoed the senator, mot much. I'm going to see Bunny again" And the appointment waited.
 Perhaps a side of the man that is little known was his stage work. AL ways clever pantomimist, he was chosen with a specially selected cast to show Broadway at the Vitagraph Theater just how pictures were made.
 Chief in support of him was James Morrison of the Vitagraph forces. MT. Morrison's recollections of the 10 weeks that they spent on Broadway are the pleasantest of that young mans life.
 "When we were working out the pantomime 1 was told that l wouldn't have a chance with John Bunny" he said. "I was told that Bunny would want the center of the stage and that all the good parts of the play would be given to him. But found it just the contrary. When we began devel- oping the parts he had many sugges- tions, not only valuable but original, that added greatly to my part and the parts of the entire company. And he would drag us on the stage time after time to take the curtain calls with him."
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