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in salary each week. Unlike Bessie Love, she
was raised in a grease-paint atmosphere, her moth
er playing with many famous stage stars during
the days when she was but a tot. She made her
first appearance on the stage when she was so
small that she was still taking maps in the tray
Of her mothers trunk in the dressing room. A few
years ago Miss Minter went into the movies and
she Immediately became a star. She is said now
to be drawing a fabulous salary.
Miss Minter, like Miss Love, has none of the up
stage atmosphere about her that many of the mo-
ton picture stars accumulate when their salaries
begin to crawl into the f~ve-igure cycle. She is
still a merry, unsophisticated child, anxious to sue
coed in her pictures but brim full Of vivacity and
freedom of her youth and reluctant to come into
the age when she will have to put up her hair and
wear long dresses.
She loves her work, but dislikes very much the
ordeals of shopping for clothes, having her pictures
taken for personal photographs and being COM
PEELED to dress up for company.
Miss Minter gives several hours a day to her
tutor, who reads constantly with her young charge.
Thus her education is far beyond that of most girls
of her age, for her appetite for knowledge often
keeps her tutor working nights to keep up with
her. She Is especially fond of poetry and loves TO
gather about her an audience of children to whom
she tells wOndrous fairy tales.
June Caprice is another film star who has had a
meteoric career. In March, 1916, she was attend
ing school every day in Arlington, Mass. In March,
1917, she was one Of the best-known and most
popular of film stars. The story of the intervening
twelve months reads like a page from the Arabian
Nights.
Toward the end of that first eventful March a
motion picture magnate happened to be in Boston
on n business trip. He was on the lookout for new
picture material. Consequently he kept his eyes
more than usually wide open. AS he was riding
down Huntington avenue one day he saw a pretty
little goldcn-haired girl walking along by herself.
He instructed his chauffeur to follow her. The
result was that he met her at her home in Airing
ton. He also met her parents there. He told them
his plan. They agreed. A week later June Ca
price was in New York.
The scheme was this: Little June, seventeen
years old, was to come to New York to submit to
a film 'test." If this proved that she photographed
half as beautiful MS she looked in the flesh, June
was to be starred. 1t didn't matter whether she
could act the directors would teach her that. But,
as a matter of fact, June had always had theatrical
ambitions and had spent many moments in anna
teur acting. So she knew q great deal about the
art before she began.
When Miss Caprice arrived in the big city for
the first time, she was taken to a fashionable girls
school on West Seventy-second street. There she
made her home during the first year of her life in
New York. Each morning she would study, each
afternoon she would work in the studios, and at
night she was early to bed, weary from the days
tasks. Now she Is a real honest-to-goodness star
with a great big salary.
Ruth Clifford, who is now In the class Of high
salaried stars, violated all feminine traditions by
she was picked out from a big bunch Of "extraS"