Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-07-06

Honoiulu's charms strike hard and
quick, but their fastest recorded work
involved Peg of the Movies when
she came TO town in the Wilhelmina
Tuesday In. ILL.,. IL.
Peg, who Is really Miss Eleanor
Bleyens OF Los Angeles, California,
was an enthusiastic. member of the
Comeback Club before her dainty
boots touched the gangplank. But
when the Waikiki surf sprayed for
the first time over the happy movie
star in her striped bathing creation.
she quit the Comebackers as quickly
as she had joined, because, she said.
Il don't ever want to leave Honolulu
now. .%.
Miss Bievens sailed over for a long
two weeks away from the coast. Be
fore the first day was over the 10 re-
naming seemed far too few. 5ga
Il promised to be back July 25 to
rehearse with the Ed Redmond Com
pany,' she said, "but you can never
tell ] don't see how can leave on
the 18th and this is my first trip, too.
It's just like going to Europe for two
weeks, only didn't realize that when
l started -. 4. 4
Charming Screen Favcrfte.
Peg Of the Movies" is one of the
most popular faces on the screen,
and she Is aptly called Little Peggy
Blevins, the Bernhart bf the Silent
Drama" She has put the dash of the
auto race and the thrill of the aero.
plane and the leap of the horse into
the films and her transformations
OF the western girl and pioneer w0-
man are especially enhancing.
Probably no other girl ever went
into the motion pictures in SO novel
way as Miss Bleyins did. She told
about II In her own manner. Il.
was in my senior year i'm a
girls school in California when sud-
denly, / was put on probation for two
weeks Knowing that / could ride
and swim, and because / had a fair
ly good screen face the Pathe peo-
pie asked me to spend the IA days
with them. / flew with Keruey, who's
dead now, in his aeroplane and raced
with Barney 0ldfield. When the two
weeks were up the movies and I
liked each other so well that we new
er thought of parting company"
Peg says her father was so horri.
fled with what he termed his daugh-
ter's fall" that he disowned her That
was five years ago and for five years |
Peggy has not seen him. But for
those five years the father has seen
his daughter often, on the screen,
and so strikingly sad was her death |
In the Pioneers Recompense, which |
he saw at his home in Iowa, that his |
heart thawed a trifle and set of |
beautiful furs were sent in appreci- |
alton. Since then the father has
wired Peggy for the names of pic
lures in which she appears that he
might watch for them and one was |
so appealing that Peg received a |
$1,000 diamond on her birthday last |
April.
$50 feel that he has forgiven me-"
she says, "and will soon take me
back" s..~. r.. ...
Now on Legitimate Stage.
Miss Blevins has temporarily left
he silent drama, however, for the
legitimate and is now with the Red
nond Company, which plans to play
n Hawaii this autumn much the
iame as did the Lytell-Vaughan Com
Iany.
Il have signed a contract to go on
Broadway in New York, declares the
Winning girl. "and it means a great
leal to me. but if the Redmond Com
amy comes to Honolulu am coming !
long. That is the only thing that
will keep me away from New York
Iity." -....- i
Pegs last appearance behind the
ootlights was in the laughable pair
# Skies" Among her motion picture
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