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-THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY
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LITTLE ZOE RAE FOOLS VISITORS
HIS is not a Kentucky pickaninni imported for the occasion from below the Mason and Dixon line to play in Rupert Julian's Bluetird "A Kentucky Cinderella." Importation was not necessary, for all Julian had to do was to send for Little Zoe Rae, who has worked for him often before, and make her up for the role, knowing that she would give a perfect interpretation of it. And indeed she gives the featured players. Miss Ruth Clifford and Mr. Julian a real run for their money. The story is a screen adaptation of Hopkinson Smith's appealing novel of the same name, and it has been given a most delightful production by Mr. Julian.
The make-up which the little girl had to assume for the occasion was the subject of a great deal of comment on the part of the visitors to the Bluebird studio while the picture was being made. Instead of being burnt-corked, the child was painted
bright red, nearly all over. Her arms, legs, neck and face were the same sanguinary hue, for red photographs even better than black in giving the desired effect. In one of the scenes in the play, the pickaninni, who is relentlessly pursuing the hero and heroine to watch their love-making, falls from a point of vantage in a tree, into which she has climbed, straight into a barrel. The harrassed young man then claps the cover on her, and has a few minutes' peace. Zoe went through the scene, falling smack into the barrel. The visitors who had not noticed her in the tree watched, and when her little red face came peering over the edge, a cry of pity arose from the women who thought that the child had been seriously injured by striking the edge of the barrel. This caused Zoe, who realized what had happened, to laugh so heartily that the scene had to be taken over again.
Scene from "Alan and Beast," coming Butterfly. Note — This is a real dead lion.
Zoe Rae in "A Kentucky Cinderella," coming Bluebird.
Eileen Sedgwick's Versatility
HERE is hardly a girl playing before the camera who has had a more varied training for pictures than Eileen Sedgwick, who is featured in the Butterfly Picture, "Man and Beast," with Kingsley Benedict. It is only fair to mention Charlie the elephant, as well, for his part in the picture is so important that it is essential to the plot, and the scene in which he rescues the baby who has strayed into the jungle, is the "punch" of the story. However, to return to Miss Sedgwick. She was eighteen at the time of her Universal engagement, and for fifteen years before that she had been on the speaking stage, in vaudeville, musical comedy or dramas.
Her father, mother, sister and brother were all on the stage with her, and they were together in a vaudeville act at one time. Both her sister, Josie, and her brother "Big Ed" have appeared in Universal pictures. Eileen has had training as a singer, dancer and pianist. She is also a song composer.