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The Girl With the Girlish Laughter
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fOST girls are sensitive when they are overly tall, with correspondingly long limbs; but Grace Greenwood is canny enough to make both laughter and capital out of her height. You will remember her as the vaudeville girl who wore an accordion-pleated skirt that seemed longer because the waist of it was up under her arms. She sang a song about retaining her girlish laughter, and as her act proceeded, she did windmill stunts with her arms and legs. As the fancy seized her, she waved them impartially over the piano, the tables and chairs, or through the air. She has retained this art of poking fun at herself in the films, and incidentally she keeps her audiences in a roar of mirth.
She is artistically awkward. She does it so cleverly that she is practically graceful at it. As Jane, in the Morosco film comedy of that name, she is one of the very funniest girls on the winter screens. Jane is a practical housemaid in the establishment of a gay bachelor, and she is married secretly to William, the butler, with the proviso that the master must not know it, else he may discharge them. And the dream of Jane's life is to own a nice little chicken ranch, with chickens that lay real eggs. When Shackelton offers her $500 to pose as his wife for a day, she is stunned, but not entirely dead to the fact that this sum of
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"If you expect to get that chicken farm, don't cackle too much," warns Jane, the maid, who has just married William, the butler. Miss Grace Greenwood is featured with Sidney Grant in this comedy, "Jane."
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SCENE FROM "JANE."
Shackelton, a gay bachelor, has told his wealthy uncle that he was married and must produce a wife and child to show uncle, who is coming to dine. He offers Jane, the maid, $500 if she will pose as his wife for a day.
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REHEARSING THE RECEPTION OF UNCLE. Jane tries hard to register ease, and the endeavor to quickly acquire airs and graces almost bowls her over.
money would buy a chicken ranch.
Sidney Grant, who, as William, is somewhat dismayed at seeing his wedding day grabbed by his master, is silenced by his determined bride, who needs the money and who informs her subdued husband that what she says goes in that family. Mr. Grant is fully alive to his opportunities for effective work in this picture and makes the most of each one.
The picture made a deep impression on a petite young matron who viewed it the day before she charged into a Christmas shopping jam. Noticing a throng of wildly excited women surrounding a
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Shackelton poses before his uncle as a young father, hoping for an increased allowance. He borrows the laundress's baby, but she becomes alarmed and demands its return.
table in the center of the store, she endeavored to get a glimpse of the bargains on sale. She hung around for ten minutes, and then gave it up as a bad job, for older and stronger females were ceaselessly milling about the table, making frantic grabs at whatever lay upon the table. The young matron sighed fervently.
"I'd give anything for Grace Greenwood's arms," she murmured. "She could just stand there and look right over those women and see what she wants, and then reach in and pick it off right before their eyes. What a boon it would be!"