page_title: Beulah Poynter
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Beulah Poynter / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Hine, Lewis Wickes,, 1874-1940,, photographer. Where the boys spend their money. Location: St. Louis, Missouri. 1910 May. 1 photographic print. Notes: Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 1476-A. Rear view, boy in cap &quot;25 cents Matinees every day .&quot; Subjects: Boys. Motion picture theaters. Leisure. United States--Missouri--St. Louis. Format: Photographic prints. Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Part Of: Photographs from the records of the National Child Labor Committee (U.S.) 2004667950 General information about the Lewis Hine child labor photos is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.nclc Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/nclc.04666 Call Number: LOT 7483, v. 1, no. 1476-A
context_page_description: Beulah Poynter was an American author, playwright and actor. Though her career touched on Broadway and Hollywood, Poynter was better known for her starring rôles with stock and touring companies and as a prolific author of mystery and romance stories. Poynter was probably best remembered by theatergoers for her title rôle in Lena Rivers, a drama she had reworked for the stage from the novel by Mary J. Holmes.
context_section_description: By 1904 Poynter was a leading actress touring with the Eastern Company in Out of the Fold, a comedy-drama by Langdon McCormick. The following year she joined the Pavilion Stock Company to play Bossy in their road production of Charles Hale Hoyt's farce comedy, A Texas Steer. In August 1905 Poynter began a tour playing the title rôle in a dramatization by Edward W. Roland and Edwin Clifford of Charlotte Mary Brame's novel, Dora Thorne. A little over a year later, beginning October 1906, Poynter embarked on a  tour with Nixon and Co. performing the title rôle in Lena Rivers, a drama she had adapted from the novel by Mary J. Holmes. The play proved to be a hit with theatergoers and would tour with Poynter at the helm for four seasons.
  In August 1910 Poynter began a tour presenting The Little Girl He Forgot, a drama that she both wrote and, as June Holly, starred in. The play toured into April 1911 and was followed that August by an engagement at the Majestic Theatre in Fort Wayne, Indiana with productions of her dramatization of Edward Eggleston's novel, The Hoosier Schoolmaster, and Poynter’s original play Mother's Girl. In October at the Park Theatre in Indianapolis she played Rosalie in Edward Peple's drama The Call of the Cricket.
  Poynter continued to tour with her own company often in revivals of Lena Rivers, The Little Girl He Forgot and Mother's Girl. By November 1911 she was starring in road productions of A Kentucky Romance, a dramatic comedy written specifically for her by Joseph Le Brandt. Poynter’s company remained on tour with A Kentucky Romance and Lena Rivers into the early months of 1913 before joining a vaudeville company that spring with a farce sketch entitled Dear Doctor.
caption: Theater in St. Louis, Missouri, advertising Poynter's appearance in Little Lord Fauntleroy (1910)
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