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Photoplay Magazine
returned from Florida as Mrs. Drew. The Florida enchantment had worked its spell.
Let me go on, for a moment, about Mr. Drew: He made his picture debut under my direction. It was in a very serious drama, entitled "The Still Voice," and in it he elected to play a whitehaired old man full of conscience and troubles. I do not think that many people in the great film audience remember that the first Mrs. Drew was a writer of distinction. Under the name of "George Cameron" she wrote some of the finest of our early plays.
Virginia Pearson had appeared in some of my comedies, and after going back to the legitimate stage again forsook the boards and returned to "the family" in Brooklyn.
During the year of her return Antonio Moreno made his first appearance, playing opposite Edith Storey in "The Island of Regeneration." Edith had not long since graduated from page parts in tights, but she made me very proud of her accomplishment as Glory Qiiayle, in Hall Caine's "The Christian."
Other names crowd my memory, and a long list of those whom it has been my pleasure to pilot through various roles include Rogers Lytton, Anders Randolph, William Humphreys, Tefft Johnson, James Young — he was an actor as well as a di
Kven when the movies were in their infantiest infancy they
•were able to improve a sedate old city like Venice. Observe
the flivver gondola in a -wooden Grand Canal. W. V. Ranous
is playing' Othello, and Julia Swayne Gordon, Desdemona.
films in which she appeared were made under his direction. I believe the first picture in which she played a part was called "The Wood Violet."
Shortly after this, E. K. Lincoln served his screen apprenticeship with us.
Ralph Ince, whom I have just mentioned, had previously entered direction from the comedy class, and pretty soon my family was increased by the addition of Dorothy Kelly, little Bobby Connelly, and Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew.
Mr. Drew's recent death makes him an especially interesting figure — and especially interesting indeed to us of the old Vitagraph fold, for here he found the romance that lasted through the re.i^t of his life. We sent Mr. Drew to St. Augustine, to film Archibald Clavering Gunter's comedy romance, "A Florida Enchantment." Little did we know how aptly that play was named ! In Mr. Drew's company was Jane Morrow — the nom-du-theatre of Miss Lucille McVey. Miss McVey — or Morrow, if you please —
"Making her cry" was a nefarious practice indulged early and often of Louise Huff — slightly assisted by the persuasive violinist at the