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46 Where Are the Stars of Yesterday?
still remains a favorite of his confreres, as was recently shown by his election to the presidency of the Screen Club, in New York.
Billy Garwood, Herbert R a w linson, E d Coxen, and Sydney Ayres are not the favorites they were a year ago. The same is true o f Winnie Greenwood and Louise Lester. A few months back, Murdock McQuarrie was the best-liked character man in filmdom. To-day he is almost forgotten. George Larkin made a wonderful name for himself in ''The Trey o' Hearts," with Cleo Madison. At last reports he was playing small parts with Selig. Joe King, another leading man of Miss Madison's, has sunk into oblivion.
How many of you remember Linda Arvidson, Mary Malatesta, Isabel Rae, Adele Ray, and Joseph Graybill? Picture patrons of five years ago had no greater favorites. To-day, Isabel Rae is the only one who remains in pictures. She is playing with Biograph, but is fast losing her identity in a maze of utterly foolish "small-time stuff." The whereabouts of the others is not even known. Remember "Skelly and Gilly," Biograph's two funny men? "Skelly," or, rather, Charlie Murray,
appears now for Keystone, but "Gilly," a s Charles Gregory was known, is ' ' r e s t ing." Edwin August, Jack Dillon, Bill Russell, Alfred Paget, and Claire McDowell are others of the old Biograph stock company to find the going too heavy. All are still playing, but that's about all.
One of the
Helen Gardner, the Theda Bara of earlier times
main reasons for the passing of the stars of yesterday is the influx of good new players. In the past year or two, the comedy field has been favored with rare talent. Where were Mae Busch, Chester Conklin, and acrobatic Al St. John, the Keystone trio, a dozen months ago ?
Robert Edeson did one picture "just for the fun of it," and now it would take a team of oxen to drag him away from the studio.
The Triangle people almost had to fight with Willard Mack to get him to play in "Aloha Oe." After that one picture, he did four more for Triangle, and then signed with Jesse L. Lasky, as an author. One of the greatest character men of the age is under contract with Thomas H. Ince. Frank Keenan is his name.
And thus it goes. Off with the old love, on with the new. The king is dead — long live the king !