Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1920)

IIIIIIMMMMIIIIIIIMIIMIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIMIII!lllllmmmlmllMMIm^ WHEN I'm twenty" is the starting point of many a conversation, as most of us know — but behold one young person who didn't have to wait even till she was eighteen to write her name in Fame's big book — and for whom the teens have indeed been glorious. For Marguerite de la Motte's interesting career began a long time ago — "way back when I was fourteen," she'll tell you. She was a dancer in those days — a pretty good one, too ; expert enough to be accepted as a pupil by the great Pavlowa — and if you don't know what an honor that was you must have been out of the world all the years that famous little Russian has been in the limelight. It was while she was still "just a dancer," according to her story, that the motion-picture world's doors opened wide to her, with a part in "Arizona," with Douglas Fairbanks. And those doors have never closed behind her. Bessie Barriscale's production of "Josselyn's Wife" gave her her second chance to appear on the screen, and then came leading roles — with Jack Pickford in "In Wrong," opposite H. B. Warner in "The Pagan God" and "For a Woman's Honor," and in two pictures with William Desmond — "The Sagebrush Hamlet" and "Dangerous Waters." All-star casts include her now— Metro's "The Hope," B. B. Hampton's "The U. P. Trail," and Emerson Hough's "The Sagebrusher" are three of them. Verily, this golden-haired, brown-eyed seventeen-year-old has made the most of the glorious teens ! mimmiiii mm i Minimi iimmmiiiimiiiiiiiiim MmiiiiMMiiii 1111111111111111111 mm 111 iimimi minimum The Glorious Teens Marguerite de la Motte is making the most of them. By Caroline Bell Photographs by Witzel mmiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiimiiiiiM nm 1 1111 1 m 11 1 mm 111 1 imiiiiniiiiiii