The theatre of science; a volume of progress and achievement in the motion picture industry (1914)

154 C&e Cf)eatre this suggestion, but up to Mansfield's early and lamented death he treated her as his own daughter. Lottie always traveled and lived in his private car with her mother and tutor, and it was Mansfield's delight to write original little dramas in which all the characters were played by the two. Even at this early age she was fond of having her own way, for she always would insist on making an entrance down a set of steps which must be red, and Mansfield must appear as an artist with a flowing black tie. He used to vary this amusement by giving her imitations of all the well-known vaudeville artists, accompanying himself on the 'cello. After the death of Mansfield Lottie starred in "My Friend from India," and was Dick in "The Tw^o Little Vagrants." Then the late B. F. Keith engaged her for "stock" work and she was for years under this management in Providence, Columbus, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, where at the Chestnut Street Theatre she played ingenue leads. It was from here that Mr. Spoor, of Essanay Film Company, engaged her as the first star of that company. After playing her year's engagement with the Essanay Company, Miss Briscoe took an extended trip to Europe and on her return was engaged by the Majestic Motion Picture Company before she stepped off the boat, having been engaged by wireless; making a rather good combination: wireless telegraphy and speechless acting. This contradiction of terms, however, is no novelty to Lottie, as for years she has been used to smokeless powder. Leaving the Majestic she went to the Imp, and from there she joined the Lubin forces in 1911, where she is now playing leads as co-star with Arthur Johnson. Miss Briscoe was honored in an unusual manner by the New York "Times" in 1913, when in a nation-wide