Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-12
Harold Lloyd's Leading Lady

III" Otu LIOyu y Lcudilg Lazy
TCTE little Mildred Davis, Harold
~ Lloyd's leading lady. was in Phia-
delphia Monday and Tuesday. Fifteen
minutes after she registered at the
Bellevue Stratford | had her on the
phone and made an appointment with
her. for ] knew that when You fans
heard she was here you would want to
know all about her. So / fOreStallcd you
by asking her all the questions I knew
you would ask me. and I'm giving you
the results here to save you the trouble
OF writing.
First, she's just as fascinating per-
sonally as she is on the screen. I'm
not sure but she's more 80. She's only
about as big as minute, but she's full
OF pep and youth and good spirits (no I;
not that kind: she told me me she
wPsFs s5s,s to get rS,is%s,is i here 49,;
She was born at Twenty first street
and Montgomery avenue aud was chris
tened Mildred Hillary" Davis, = Her
father was Howard Davis. circulation
manager of one of the morning news
pupers here. and they all come from
old Quaker stock. Mildred was -cdu-
Gated at first at Friends Select school,
after the family moved TO 1920 Vine
street. As to dates. Mildred will be
twenty years old next Washington :
Birthday, 50 you can figure it out for
yourself
Eight years ago her father took the
family to Tacoma, Wash, where he had
charge of the circulation departments
OF two papers, and where Mildred fin
ished her schooling. Four years later
She was surprised to get Il telegram
from producer in Los Angeles. asking
Ter to come to see him with q view to
acting in series of photoplayS She
had friend in Los Angeles. and this
friend had showed him some of her
pictures. So she and her mother packed
UP and went to the film COlOny-and
found the producer had gone to New
York.
But Mildred had by that time begun
I" dream of movie Stardom. 70 she went
to a booking agent and told him her
story. lie took her to the ElCO Studies
and got her a small job IN the stock
company. just SO she could learn make
IN and things. She was only Il littIc
kid with her hair down her back and she
stayed with EIro ten DAYS and was
paid SlI without ever getting in front
OF camera when her agent hcurd
that tn" Mutual Company wanted a
s"J"s tnI 4oI N"n'' ,,M"-FeeI ,M, c"i""uieS
!" ""u 9'IGa u"TM nrr 'EHrI'' mere were lot
w. W "Pp;;!cnHls l"r Lur zoo ,G,rls W"II
%I,J" eI !. ~ = ,. ~, Mu'u" man
i,..T. i".N "'ot Io"N m' MHur'u ~ h'r simple
i''I,e SaIor sun ana S'snru h'r on
mner .n!S '"T'rurl ne mao" seven
aat,I partur'' III the h't,I" mss innocence,
S'EI'>' an" i"'I went 10 I ulV'rSaI.
Wh"r" SAr p'aE"h lead win VILLAIN
GIIUM"u Nno was recently Eiiird in
hlWrrSal IH,G0gth Atr''an scientific eX,
prditlon' SllIIrGd was i,lt""n years old
"nrn shc worked Wlth ,StGW"II
..T,n enc p!ay"H win !".n Dara in
t%on ""t ol " u''V"' , u :" w rohE, ana
.ho"' .h mH'u ,"' "'I'u ",aI"S entered
barL & Wor wa phTinLon"io n %mG HGr dmrGmt' came
,'nT.I oa,M 10 MAY P"'u, MncFe her lather
Ilovd's romedios nt that ti,no '","'n I'n
nreyiew Of "NiI Wrong AND ;,n"."
diately telepre nhpd NIii,rcd ,Of"rima. 'a.''" ho
a contract a. | lo,IiI l,al,,., L'l's a,
most at the same time She got got three
oone' Tne[s, h one Tor serials; bnt she