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Where Are the Stars of Yesterday?
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picture. Another girl who retired, or, rather, left the country, at the time she had reached the zenith of her career, was Florence Turner. She is now starring for an English concern, but her pictures rarely reach our shores.
The dainty little Irish girl, Gene Gauntier, is another of the old guard to be forgotten. Gene is now sojourning in Ireland. She is independently wealthy.
There are numerous reasons for the popularity of public favorites dwindling either gradually or suddenly, as the names above mentioned prove. Unconsciously players have dropped from our minds, to be forgotten, and we have seldom missed them. But just the mention of a name, and we recall immediately many pleasant hours spent in the semidarkness, with their shadowy forms before us on the screen. They have been reigning favorites, and have been dethroned. Sometimes matrimony — which for centuries has been called, jokingly and seriously, the greatest of trouble makers — has caused us to lose a favorite. Sometimes the players themselves are to blame, and sometimes the companies for whom they work. There are many people who have stood outside theaters, unrecognized, proudly watching a line before the ticket window where their names were promiscuously displayed, who are to-day either living far from the bustling studios, or who still depend on their histrionic talent for a living— but a scanty living compared to that which they earned but a short time ago.
Lillian Wiggins, the stunning Pathe blonde of a short time ago, is now unknown to screen followers, because she reversed the acts of many famous stage players who transfer their efforts to the pictures, and left films for the boards. Pearl Sinclair's decline, so far as pictures are concerned, is due to the same cause. A year
ago, Louise Huff and her sister Justina were attracting crowds to the photoplay houses where their pictures appeared. Now the frequenters of those same theaters might not even recognize their names. Their former popular leading man, Kempton Greene, is still playing before the camera, but to the public he is far from the same Kempton Greene of but a few months ago.
Earl Metcalfe, in his zenith, stopped acting to try to make a screen comedian of Billie Reeves. He had a hard job of it, but did good work, sacrificing his own popularity in the meantime. Mae Hotely, who worked at the Lubin studio with Metcalfe and the Huff girls, was, for several years, a very successful comedienne. To-day she is living a private life— the public tired of her work.
Other fun makers that have gone are Max Asher, Eddie Dillon, and Billy Quirk. Max is not even playing, but Eddie fared better. He is directing the Triangle-Fine Arts comedies with De Wolf Hopper. Billy Quirk hasn't done anything to please the public in over two years. Although his popularity among the fans is a dead issue, Billy
Lillian Walker's dimples were once as famous as Billy Quirk's smiles.
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