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One of the most cultured women of the screen, is Nazimova.
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Louise Glaum specializes in costume design.
Kat herine MacDonald has dozens o f distinguished ancestors.
' The Patricians
If you think there's no aristocracy in the movie
By Jane Mc
BUT I wouldn't want my daughter to go into the movies!" I heard a perfectly nice mother say the other day. "They're all such — well, such queer people." And I spent the next half hour telling that stately dowager what I'm going to tell you — that they are not "queer'' at all. I admitted, of course, that it took all kinds of persons to make the movies, as it takes all kinds to make up the world. I confessed that many of those who had reached the topmost rungs of the ladder had fought their way up from the humblest of beginnings — which she had to admit was much tc their credit. But I also showed her, somewhat to her surprise, that among the successful artists of the screen there is an aristocracy, based on social position, culture, and education, or on all of these qualifications combined.
To begin, there is Kitty Gordon, known in England as Lady Beresford, thanks to a marriage with one of its peers. She is our best-known screen star who has a title in her reticule, though more than one nobleman and titled woman has looked into the camera.
Katherine MacDonald, our lovely American beauty, was given good birth and lots of ability and heaps of brains when the fairies came to her christening party. She can trim a hat or write a thesis on the nebular hypothesis with equal facility and is proving that, as a star at the head of her own company, she has business
sense as well. She had just finished college when her father died, and she and her sister, Mary MacLaren, then in a convent in Virginia, were called upon to help support the family. Then, though the two girls were representatives of one of the most famous American families, Daughters of the Revolution, whose male ancestors had all distinguished themselves and become officers in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, and, though their uncle was a judge in the higher courts of Pennsylvania, they put thenpride in their pockets and went to work. Both worked first in the chorus of New York musical shows, afterward graduating into pictures.
One of the most cultured women of the screen is Alia Nazimova. Nazimova is and always has been a brilliant student. At ten, she studied and became proficient in French, German, and music while attending school at Montreux, Switzerland. Later she studied vocal music at the St. Petersburg conservatory in Odessa,
Russia, and, when still a very young woman, was graduated from a dramatic conservatory in Moscow. She is an accomplished linguist and an authority on literature in several tongues.
Elsie Ferguson has often been called "the aristocrat of the screen," a title which has never