Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-24
When Hart
Went Baby
Stealing
The Tragic Tale Of How
George Stone Met the
Arcadia Triangle Star

A crisp, business looking person strolled
into the Fine Arta-Trianale studio at Los
Angeles and looked over the long stretches
of open-air stage
II want to borrow baby, ma'am--a sort
Of yearlin' baby, 30 to speak," he remarked
plalntively to the very energetic lady on
guard at the gate (Rnd who sports full
sized, honest-to-goodness police badge, ana
whose business 1t ls TO protect everything
feminine from cradle age on up TO full-star
size)
."willIam S. Hart" retorted that person
severely, you just get along with you ana
run back onto your own lot The idea OF
your coming over here to borrow one OF our
bnbiesl !"
Hart grinned and dropped the cowboy
drawl as Chester and Sidney Franknn,
brothers and directors of the group OF LII.
angle children that have been organized at
the Fine Arts, strolled UP and joined the
little group that had gathered.
Say" he went on, do you Know II @ uoes
me good TO get out This Is the first stage
that 1 have seen in Los Angeles MOVING
pictures here except that of our own oullt.
I'm a regular stay-at-home. But we've got
q kid play that I've been working on, klu,
dog, doting daddy Old Glory and-weiL,
won't give any more away just now. but
I've been up against 1t for q Kid, just
regular boy baby kid There's plenty or
nice Little Lord Fauntleroys In the mar
ket and angel eherubs and honeybuos, et-
cetery, etcetery, but what I've got 10 nave
is q hard-isted, tough-knuckled nttle Gnap
about 6 years .old--a regular little teloW
that can worm his way into the heartstrlrss
Of as tough an old sourdough as ever came
down the pike. So you can see that no
mothers itty-bitty -cheep-cheep cheruo Is
going to fill the bill
i've got to have n little klddy not over
years old that can act. And thats some
proposition. But" he went on, III can get
one I've got a story for the screen tnat VIII
make the everlasting reputation OF the BABY
that can play 1t ~
It was interesting to watch Hart as he
went through the outfit of Triangle children
that were herded for his benefit. 1t hap
pened to be the school hour o'clock and
all the Triangle children attend the special
school in the studio from 4 to 6-and the
studio automobiles came In from the picture
taking back in the hills with their COM
panes of forty-nIners Indians, trappers and
genuine cow-punchers and with
their children in the childish fashions ana
rags of 70 years and more ago. Hart
played with them, patted them, Joked with
them like an expert In kindergarten or
Montessori systems and all the time was
sitting them shrewdly.
There's your boy" said the Franklin
brothers together, as a little fellow with
tangled hair tumbled, puppy-llke and joyful,
yard. His overcoat was on hindside before,
and he proudly regarded this feat of his
own Imagination as he trotted over the OPEN
air stage In pathetic worn-out moccasins
Beneath 1t showed the tattered jeans and
shirt Of the child of the frontier,
the part he had been playing during the
day.
This was Georgia Stone. Hart shook
hands gravely and shrewdly looked him
over.
Like to play nice part with dog.
Georgie?" he asked.
Georgia nodded solemnly,
And with shoes instead of moccasins
Georgle?" added Hart
George looked down speculatively at his
worn-Out foot-gear of the plains as he
It's all kid, and dog-and the rest of us
Just como In to sort of act as props and
reached UP and patted Hart on the knee
"They's my shootin' Shoes" he explained
slowly. "They's my shootln' shoes because
my toes is a-shooting through 'em-he says