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136 THE MOTION PICTURE STORY MAGAZINE
Greetings to a fellow contestant:
Maukice Costello :
Dear Sir : I am sending you 45 votes, in the hope you will win this contest. Last spring I took part in a contest here in our city. I was the youngest contestant, being 12 years old. I won first prize with 56,000 votes. Now I hope you will be as successful as I was. Velma Ferguson.
344 Chas Street, Wellsburg, W. Va.
The countless admirers of dainty Dolores Cassinelli, of the Essanay Co., are not satisfied with sending in single votes for her. They have formed Cassinelli clubs to boost their favorite. Some of the clubs attend performances exhibiting films in which she is featured. This is showing practical appreciation.
Oliver Bailey, San Antonio, Texas, writes: "I love Alice Joyce and Gladys Field, but the sweetest Storey ever shown is Edith, of the Vitagraph."
Estelle A. Hill, of New York, knows sterling talent when she sees it, as portrayed by Marc McDermott, of the Edison players. She writes: "Altho many think him cross, I think he is one of the best actors now in Photoplays. ' '
Marc McDermott has also gotten the railroad officials going. Frank C. Carroll, cashier of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western R.R., thinks his work very finished and his characterizations sublime. We would like also to hear from Phcebe Snow.
"Why is not James W. Morrison in pictures more often?" writes Miss Eva Bateman, of Norwood, Mass. Keep asking, and you will get him; he travels everywhere.
We have received, also, an ardent declaration of love for James W. Morrison, but it is from a man, worse luck! We cannot disclose the secrets of his many feminine admirers.
This looks like applause:
Editor of Player Contest :
Dear Sir : Enclosed you will find eighty votes for Miss Gwendolyn Pates, of Path6 Freres, who is the favorite of a large girls' club of Jersey City Heights. We are doing our utmost to show our admiration of Miss Pates' acting. We hope to obtain many more votes from our friends. Trusting that she may receive the necessary number of ballots which will tend to prove her the most popular actress, we remain,
Her Faithful Admirers.
Miss Priscilla Mercurio, 2121 Dean Street, Brooklyn, N. Y., believes in royal esteem, and entitles her verses to Marion Leonard "The Uncrowned Queen.'7
Her face zoned with Venus' circle fair,
Is crowned with a wealth of soft golden hair ;
Untold beauties grace her form divine,
In every motion is "beauty's line."
No painter's fancy, sculptor's dream,
A fairer creature had for theme ;
So queen-like and graceful does she tread,
The sole treasure lacking is the crown on her head.
From San Jose, Cal., the fountainhead of beautiful women, comes an appreciation of the beauty and versatility of Dolores Cassinelli. Glad she has overcome sectional prejudice! J. S. Rondoni, 666 Spring Street, is the critic.
Miss Elizabeth Drake, 1558 East 17th street, Brooklyn, N. Y., cannot wait for the May edition to get on the newsstands, so she sends a subscription and 500 votes for Harry Meyers, of the Lubin Co. ' ' The great advantage, ' ' she writes, "is that the magazine comes to subscribers on or about the 15th, whereas on the stands we get it on the 20th, or later."