The Washington times., 1921-03-19
From School Room to Studio
Is Record of Alice Lake

| Not in some time has SO refreshing
personality come to our notice as
that OF dark-eyed, unaffected Alice
Lake" is how an Eastern photoplay y
| editor describes the brilliant young
Metro star, whose latest picture. "The
| Greater Claim" els to be seen for the
| first times locally at Crandall's Metro
| politan and knickerbocker Theaters,
beginning tomorrow. THE screen
| would do well to have more like her,
| though we feel somehow that she is
individual and that her charm cannot
be duplicated. For 1t is the charm
of naturalness, of a simplicity which
| is deep-rooted genuineness. She is
| like the girl you used to know who
lived next door. with whom you grew
up, whose hair You used to pull until
one day You discovered she had be-
come a person apart from all others.
Then you waited for her after high
school, to. carryNhome her books; and
you took her to the dances in your
town and felt that you were fortu-
| nate. That is Alice Lake"
Only a few short years have elapsed
since. boys actually did. carry. her
books home from Erasmus Hall High
School in Brooklyn. From the study
halls of that institution to the studios
step. Miss Lake felt all along, as
have countless other girls, without
doubt, that she had ability to actf So
one day she went over to the Vita
graph studios in Brooklyn, not so
very far from her home. and got an
extra part. Her rise from this small
beginning was due entirely to her
merit
'If you try hard enough, you'll get
hnt \ alr
genera Lies on success.
And she should know, for she has
reached the upper rungs OF the ladder.
II owe it all to Rudyard Kipling,"
she explains. while / was day
dreaming and saying III 1 only could
do it, 1 read his poem, If.' And l
decided that was the key to the whole
situation.
"The line that inspired me most
was, II you can fill the unforgiving
minute with sixty seconds worth OF
distance run, yours is the earth and
everything that's in it," 1t just re-
vealed to me what / should have
known, that's fatal to waste time"
Miss Lake wasted no time at all
once she got started. She went direct
to the Vitagraph studios near her
home in Flatbush and they took her
on as an extra" Her untiring labor
and ability proved open sesame 10
bigger parts, until she became one
of Metros stars.
Supporting Miss Lake in "The
Greater Claim" are the following:
Jack Dougherty, Dewitt C. Jennings,
Florence Gilbert, Lenore Lynard and
Edward Cecil not to mention Dickie
Headrick.
Little three-year-old Master Richard
Headrick. bettr known to intimate
and screen friends as "Itchie," plays
charming part in "The Greater
Claim" she rushed to the casting Of
fice and asked that the lad be given
the child part Fortunately. he was
not engaged elsewhere, and was at
once cast for the role OF her son.
Besides his accomplishments as an
actor, "Itichie" is the worlds cham
pion child swimmer and diver He
has been awarded two cups and two
medals for his acquatic feats as we'll
as a diploma by the American Red
Cross Life Saving Society for pro-
ficiency.
Recently "Itchie' appeared in a spe-
cial propaganda picture for the Life
Saving Society. This Aim was made
to show in schools in an effort to
popularize swimming and marine
sports.