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.March 1. 1913.
MOTOGRAPHY
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How the Photoplayers Club Did It
Their First Ball
THE Los Angeles Photoplayers' ball Valentine's night was a disappointingly fine affair, as the Los Angeles Examiner expressed it. One expected to see yelling "Injuns" and fat Dutchmen and cowboys and poor but beautiful girls, too.
All this dream had to be discarded when one got a look at the ballroom scene in the big Shrine Auditorium, for it was very much like several brilliant predecessors. The men didn't dash in and say, "Halt!" or "Curses!"; no damsels were succored, of trustful females there were none; one did not glimpse any squalor or wretchedness. Nothing of all this happened.
On the contrary this affair merged all of them into a uniform assemblage, the women in their kinemacolor clothes and the men with the open-face accoutrement — in other words, evening garb.
The best known characters of the film world were there. There were comedy men, serious men, character men, juveniles ; there were heroes and villains, kings and beggars, saints and thieves; then, of course, there were heroines and poor little shop girls and old maids and little country lassies ; in fact, nothing missing.
The cruel landlord who that very afternoon had driven the supplicating woman and her three weeping children out into the cold world for want of twenty-five
cents for the rent was discovered in agreeable conversation with the same woman, whereas the children were trying the waxed floor for long distance effects in sliding.
It was one of the biggest dancing crowds the auditorium ever accommodated, perhaps the biggest, and none ever could have been more decorous. A few individuals somewhat inclined to levity had suggested that "ragging" might be desirable when things warmed up a bit.
It is to be written very severely that there was no "ragging." A man with a megaphone mounted into the band stand and executed a decisive flank movement on all this kind of motive by announcing that any one who tried to "rag" would suffer the ignominy of ejection. The giddy waltz, two-step, etc., had to suffice.
It is a noteworthy fact that Los Angeles can assemble more photoplayers than any other city in the country, also more noted ones. The forty-two companies operating in and around the city were all so numerously represented that everybody came but the livestock. Also most of them arrived in automobiles, which is a pretty good argument there were no Cinderellas or their male prototypes on hand.
The venerable dean of moving picture actors is Charles, otherwise "Pop," Manley. He is 82. He could have been playing in pictures before the Civil War had
"The Ferrets," March 1. Copyright 1913, Selig Polyscope Co.