New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-04
MINNIE GLASS MAY
BE BOY ON FILM
Mother of Lost Child Be-
lieves She Has Found Him
in "Judy Forgot"

Little Jimmie Glass, who disappeared
at Greeley, Pike County, Penn, May
IL. 1915, under most mysterious cir
cumstances, and whose mother, Mrs.
Charles Glass, Of 13 Lienau Place, Jer-
sey City, has never given up hope for
his return, may now be acting for the
movies.
Certain it is that in Universal Film
release, entitled Judy Forgot" which
was taken in this city last June. one
month after the lads disappearance,
there is a little boy who looks and be-
haves just like Jimmie Mrs. Glass
visited the Universal Offices yesterday,
ard after watching the five reels she
said she was positive that the child
shown was hers
"I'd know him among million" she
declared, land that's his dead image
When Judy Forgot" was first
thrown on the screens Of Jersey City
last October friends OF Mrs. Glass
noted the resemblance OF the child
actor to the missing boy. They com
municated with Mrs. Glass. and she IN
turn took the matter up with the Uni
yersal Offices.
Il was discovered that at the time
the picture was taken three children
were needed, and only two were on
hand. So the first one on the waiting
line was impressed. No record was
made OF the child's name or address, as
the engagement was only temporary.
T. HAYES Hunter, who was the director,
recollects only that the boy was with
n woman who said she was his mother.
The child was used five days at the Imp
Studio. Forty-third Street and Eleventh
Avenue. and on the Moroslni estate at
Greenwich, Conn. Nothing further was
seen Of the child after that. and the
woman never tried 20 get return en-
gagement.
The two other children used az that
time are now At Jamaica, British est
Indies. with the Fox company, and II ~
thought just possible the boy mis-
mother believes is Jimmie Glass may
have gone with them. The autn9ri,les
are now in communication with the
Fox people.
sure that the lad is her Jimmie be
cause he used 20 love 10 pose. lie
was always crazy 10 have his picture
taken" she said. "and # whoever mas
him is using him for commercial pur-
poses that would explain why they
have never asked US for ransom.
The Glass boy disappeared last May
under conditions that were so strange
as 20 be uncanny. Mr.. q lass, VINO
works for the Erie Railroad, was III
Of nervous prostration, and went win
his wife and three children TO Greely.
Penn, for a rest. II is hamlet OF
less than 100 Inhabitants, and visitors
rarely happen there.
The morning of their arrival, the
mother went to the postoifice, only q
few hundred feet away, leaving Jimmie
at play in the front yard. in plain
sight OF the postoffice Mrs. Glass was
inside the building less than five min
utes. When she returned her child
was gone.
No wagon. automobile or other We
hicle passed. and no person was seen
Almost the whole village took up the
hunt. Bloodhounds were put on the
trail, but there was no trail.
Since then over thirty clews have
been run down, all of them fruitless.
On one occasion the districted parents
took a trip, which they could i'll az
ford, all the way 70 Norman. Okla, TO
find that d child. strangely like thei.
lost offspring, was yet unlike him.
The Universal Animated News.
which is shown in theatres all over
the country, will repeat the strip from
Judy Forgot" showing the Likeness,
OF the missing child, next week in ono
more attempt to find him.