Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-19

Innocence of childhood and the deep tints OF
the wood vioiet-eyes fringed with long slken
iashes that sweep her baby cheelSs-eyes that
her mother says so valuable that she car
ries an insurance of $4,000 on them.
Effiie Laurelle Selleck sometimes called the
Dixie DOLL" because of her Dresden China
prettiness. and always called that lovely
ehild"-by all who see her exquisite beauty. is
the little maid who Possesses the wonderful
eyes. And she will march up TO the studio
gates of the movie world, press her determined
way through the thousands that wait there
armed with pulls and power money and am
bition-and train the battery of her baby eyes
on the ponderous gates and demand admission.
That the gates will open-that the movie
world will fall with little resistance seems, a
foregone conclusion; for no movie magnate no
director however hard and calloused and used
TO saying no to aspirants for movie fame can
gaze into little Efie's wonderful eyes become
acquainted with her engaging personality and
all around precociousness, and fail to be con-
vinced that here is beauty and talent Of such
rare order that it would be flying in the face
of providence not to give this small maid a
chance to win the hearts of the public through
the medium Of the screen, and incidently win
fat dividends for the studio employing her.
Mrs. Hazel L. Selleck, the mother of the
no especial desire to capitalize her small
daughters looks. she considers that she would
be standing in her childs light II she did no.
make every endeavor to place her in the ad-
vantageous position that moving pictures will
give her. And with this end in view she will
take little Efie to New York and do all that
she can to make a great motion picture star
out of her.
Ellie has already appeared in pictures in a
small way. She is camera wise, and able to
register her emotions in telling manner
Even at her tender age she can register grief,
sorrow, surprise, horror pleasure-in fact near
ly all of the pantomimists tricks, with ease
And she is particularly proud of her ability
TO wink most cunnlngly with either one Of her
long lashes.
Mothers notoriously proud of their chill
dren's physical perfections, and many times
without cause other than the mist of love and
pride through which their vision is strained;
but Mrs. Selleck is neither hoodwinked nor
handicapped in this respect.
Mrs. Seeck says she takes no special credit
for littlo Effe's good looks.
"She just grew that way. No special training
or dieting, no system of beauty culture or
regime was INDUCED in The little girl has just
lived the life Of ordinary child. She runs
and plays out of doors when the weather IS
good, eats candy and chews gum. and thrives
on sweetmeats, which have never Injured her
digestion no: worked any harm to her COM
plcXion."
Another remarkable thing about the child is
that she has all of her second teeth, which
are strong and firm and white as ivory.
Nature now and then gets in a lavish mood
and Creates a flower or a plant of most sur
passing loveliness and perfection. And now
and then she turns her attention TO the human
race-and makes child as beautiful as a
flower.
Part OF the country has already fallen before
the battery of Ehie's remarkable eyes. The
great Southwest, where, she has lived with her
mother for a number of years. capituated long
ago.