The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-15

Mrs. Margaret Wiggin. who will be in
moving pictures in New York.
Mrs. Wiggin, who is very beauti-
full woman, will leave in a few days
for Excelsior Springs to visit friends
for a week, after which she will spend
short time at her home in Chicago
and then go to New York to again
has been the guest of her sister, Mrs.
George Eagle. for several weeks and
has been entertained by many of her
friends during her visit.
In New York she will play with
some of the leading moving picture
companies of the country, among them
the Famous Players, Paramount, Las
ky and Goldwyn. She will probably
do some posing for serials stories and
take part in movies for commercial
purposes, as she has done in Chicago.
She has been advised by picture peo-
pie in Chicago to see the illustrator
if she goes to New York. Mrs Wig
gins beautiful white hair is one of the
things which makes her so desirable
in the picture world because it is just
the shade which photographs the most
satisfactorily
Mrs. Wiggin says it is a wonderful
help to woman to see herself on the
screen and have an opportunity to
study her makeup. Altho Mrs. Wig
gin objects to being much made up
and doesn't need a great deal, she says
a little is necessary in the pictures
Tor the slightest imperfection in the
skin shows on the screen.
During the time Mrs Wigsin has
been in Chicago, she has done much
posing for pictures in advertisements
and many of the recent ma gazines
have contained advertisements in
which she has been one of the leading
characters. In the Saturday Evening
Post. the Cosmopolitan. Good House
keeping and the Ladies' Home Jour-
nal she has been among the attractive
advertisements. In the Cosmopolitan
of November she was one of the char
acters in an advertisement for a player
piano. where she took the part of the
mother, who with the head of the
! household was dancing with the young
people. She is advertising Aunt Je-
mima's Pancake Flour in the Febru-
airy number of Good Housekeeping
81 believe this advertising with pic
lures is going to be one of the greatest
industries we have ever had" said
Mrs. Wiggin.
In moving pictures for commercial
purposes Mrs Wiggin has often ap-
peared on the screen. There is one
picture house in Chicago, the Roth
acker STUDIO. which does nothing else
but this commercial picture business
sometimes very attractive little play
lets are used to advertise different
things such as furniture, laundries. in
kfact almost everything, and the set
tings for these advertisements must be
as attractive as for the regularlmovies
Mrs. Wiggin has also posed at the
Chicago Art institute and she said:
Il have been mother to more sailors
ard soldiers than you can imagine, be-
cause they know of me now and when
they want a mother with white hair
they send for me-" She also had
chance to go with company from
Chicago on theslegitimate stage as the
mother. The company was leaving
soon for Il trip to California but Mrs
| WiggSl refused the offer on account
of the continual travelling.
In New York there will be a much
broader field than there was in Chi
cago, where there were only two NOV
I ing picture houses which did regular
moving picture work, while in New
York City there are many regular
movie studies The demand all the
time for something better in pictures
has caused many of the smaller pic
| ture C mpanies to sell out to the larg-
| err ones. according to Mrs Wiggin. Her
work in New York probably will be
very much what it was in Chicago ex-
cept that she will do more regular
moving LECTURE work. However. she
! expects to continue her commercial
movies ana her posing as well.
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THE LETTER OF A DEBUTANTE.
/ Dear S. r.: Where has the balmy
| spring gone, which did so make US
| think that soon we would be going
out to gather dogtooth violets and the
other early spring varieties? And
| what do you suppose has become of
| all those birds which few weeks ago
were said to have returned from their
winter homes in the south? Do you
know the spring flowers and the birds
aren't all that worry me since the
cold weather has come back. What is
| to become of the young maid in her
| spring pumps and thin silk stockings
| (three dollars, and up. a pair if you
| please?)
/ Once more it is time for the high
school graduation and again the boys
as well as the girls have had their pic
lures taken according to Hoyle, or
anyway in accord with custom. In the
case of the girls every member of the
family. with possibly the exception of
brother. has studied over the proofs
and, with the help of all the girl
friends and the young men callers. has
decided upon the excellent likeness of
the one which flatters the sweet girl
graduate" the most. In the case of
the boy every one but him has shown
a great deal of interest in the results
which have come from the camera
but unless there happens to be a GER
tain "prettiest girl in the world" the