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POPULAR PLAYER CONTEST 135
Miss Mae Hotely's popularity continues. A long list of votes for her has just been sent in by the Columbia Park Boys' Club, of San Francisco, Cal. Miss Hotely has, perhaps, more clubs and organizations working for her than has any other player.
We still receive many appreciative letters concerning Mary Pickford and Mabel Normand. Their friends are numerous, and most enthusiastic, in spite of obstacles.
Miss Lillian Donoghue, of Gary, Indiana, sends three cleverly drawn pictures : one of herself, one of Maurice Costello, and one of Lillian Walker, whom she calls a "sweet little sunbeam."
"In the pantomime world of Reel and Film, Miss Florence Lawrence is the daintiest of them all," writes one of her admirers from Cleveland, Ohio.
Mrs. Ruby Baker, of Myrtle Point, Oregon, sings the praises of Francis X. Bushman in the following verse :
There is one to whom I would give first prize,
It is he with such expressive eyes,
Whose every movement is full of grace,
And the pleasant smile upon his face
Holds all spellbound who come to see
The prince of actors, Francis X. B.
M. J. Williams, of Fox Street, New York, sends a bunch of votes for Arthur Johnson, and remarks: "Mr. Johnson, without doubt, is the ladies' idol, doubly so because he does not 'pose' before the camera to show that he is aware of the admiration of the Motion Picture patrons."
Jennie Lee, of Springfield, Mass., is a steady patron of the Photoshow, attending five evenings every week, but nothing pleases her so much as to see an Essanay film come on, with G. M. Anderson in the lead.
A fair maiden in Gary, Indiana, writes a tear-stained letter to the effect that it was the saddest moment of her young life when she learnt that Maurice Costello was married. She considers him the finest actor the world has ever known, and the handsomest man ever photographed.
H. M. Woolley, of San Francisco, is working for Gladys Field, and sends this verse:
Winsome, winning Gladys Field,
Smiling, dimpled, fair, serene,
Of Motion Picture stars the queen, To you we gladly homage yield.
"The most accomplished actress in the silent drama" is what J. Burns, Jr., of West Orange, N. J., calls Miss Mary Fuller, of the Edison Co.
"Handsome, dear Mr. Crane Wilbur, of the classy Pathe, is the favorite of Los Angeles," writes a maid from that town, who does not sign her name to her letter.
Eleanor Simpson, of Kansas City, Mo., wishes she were a poet, that she might write verse after verse in praise of Carlyle Blackwell, the finest lover on the stage.
Another toast to Florence Turner, of the Vitagraph. This one from E. J. Clarke, of San Francisco:
1 fill this cup to one made up To whom the better elements Of loveliness alone, And kindly stars have given
A woman, of her gentle sex A form so fair that, like the air. The seeming paragon, 'Tis less of earth than heaven.