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Henry Minor Still Lives
SIDNEY DREW and Nat Goodwin are dead. Both did much (o beguile the hours and linhten the hearts of the American people. Mr. Goodwins art — for it was art. of a kind too rare nowadays— is only a gracious memory. Mr. Drews physical being has been resolved by consuming fire into "its elements, but the finest achievement of his maturity, the generally humorous, sometimes pathetic and always human Henry Minor, is, and will continue to be. a living and potent force. Mr. (Joodwin made the speaking stage his vehicle, and suffered the last great trageily of the actor, the extinction of his life work with his own passing. The best of Sidney Drew is immortalized on the screen. When the histor\ of motion picture comedy is written, years from now. Mr. Drew will occupy a great fundamental plait in it. for his celluloid jests were veritable transcripts from the life of the American People. He will endure as the first genuine exemplifier of the comedy of situation anrj character in pictures. He was liorn in 1864. and was the son of a famous comedienne. Mrs. John Drew. He was a notable memlx-r of the great related families of the Drews, the Barr>mores and the Rankin-;. His screen debut, after manv vears of prominence upon the sUge, was made in 1015. with Vitaeraph. His son. S, Rankin Drew, a director and actor ot great promise, was an American aviator, killed by the Germans in combat above the fields of France just a year ago.
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