The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-01-26

in salary each week. Unlike Bessie Love, she
raised in 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 still taking maps in the tray
of her mothers trunk in the dressing room few
years ago Miss Minter went into the movies" and
she Immediately became star. She is said now
to be drawing fabulous salary
Miss Mnter 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 hve-tigure cycle. She Is
still merry. unsophisticaed child anxious to sue
coed in her pictures but brm 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
long dresses.
She loves her work. but diSlikes very much the
ordeas 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 audience of children to whom
she tells wondrOuS fairy tales.
June Caprice Is another film star who has had
meteoric career. In March. 1916 she was attend
ing school every day in Arlington Mass. In March,
1917, she of the bestknown and most
popular of film stars. The story of the intervening
twelve months reads like page from the Arabian
Nights.
Toward the end Of that first cvcntful March Il
motion picture magnate happened 20 be in Boston
on Il business trip He 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 pretty
little goldenhaired girl walking along by herself.
He instructed his chauffeur to follow her The
result was that he met her ut 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 Kew York.
The scheme was this: Little June, seventeen
years old. was to come to New York to submit to
q film test. If this proved that she photographed
half rs beautiful as 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 matter of fact, June had always had theatrical
ambitions and had spent many moments in anna
teur acting. So she knew great deal about the
art before she began.
When Miss Caprice arrived in the big city for
the first time she was taken TO fashionable girls
school on West Seventy street. There she
made her home during the first year Of her life in
New York Each morning she would study, each
night she was early to bed, weary from the days
tasks Now she is real honeStt0-SoodneSS star
with great big salary.
Ruth Clifford, who Is now in the class of high
salared stars violated all feminine traditions by
pretending to be older than she really was when
She was picked out from big bunch of extras