Motion Picture Magazine (Nov 1916-Jan 1917)

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52 TRICKS OF THE SCREEN ACTOR'S TRADE my head was that of James Morrison. You know him., He has played leading roles in a long line of Vitagraph films— 'The Christian," "The Redemption of Dave Darcy," "In Days of Famine," and others innumerable. His work has attracted attention not only from the girls, who love his buoyant, spontaneous boyishness, his engaging, graceful manner, but from all those as well to whom evidence of skill, thoroness and sincerity are a cons t a n t source of j o y a.n*d satisfaction. James Morrison is a graduate of the University of Chicago. As a shoe JAMES MORRISON IN FAVORITE CHARACTERIZATIONS salesman he earned part of the funds necessary for his education. And as a shoe man he was working when, after raduation, he got the idea that the stage was the place for him. For a few years he gave his time to the legitimate, then he spent a summer in vaudeville and finally he went into the films. But when he dropped into the pictures he did not drop entirely out of the spoken drama. To get into ruts, to become stereotyped, is no part of his program. So every now