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AMERICAN BEAUTV
These children, in "Spider Barton's Soft Spot," throw their whole soul into their acting.
better than the grown-ups.
Frequently they do
"You've got to give them all kinds of laughs to keep them coming," said a director, whose great success has been largely due to his clever introduction of children into pictures. "But in my opinion, the laugh that's half weep is the most effective. There's no better way to get it than by kiddies. The children never fail."
The pictures that make the very biggest hit are the pictures that appeal to people's hearts. Everyone understands the appeal of childhood. So every well-equipped motion picture studio has its coterie of child players. There are two companies made up entirely of juveniles. One, at Universal City, is directed by Miss Lule Warrenton. The other is the Cosmophoto Film Company, the members of which appear mostly in juvenile burlesques. The children of the pictures have just as definite ambitions, just as decided likes and dislikes, just as pronounced aptitudes for certain lines of work as their elders in the studios.
' ' When I grow up, I want to be a great emotional actress," said blue
Peggy George and Billy Jacobs try a rehearsal without a director.
eyed, sunny-haired Zoe Du Rae, a child from the juvenile company at Universal City, the other day. "I think I should be like Sarah Bernhardt. Mother says that she is a very great actress."
In a recent picture Zoe was instructed to walk to a closet door and open it. As she did so, she was to discover the body of a man on the floor and run away as fast as she could. The future Bernhardt, however, had her own ideas of how things should be done. She opened the door as per instructions, but when her eyes fell on the form of the prostrate man, she shrieked, put her hands over her eyes and fell in a faint, as she had seen the older actresses do.
Lois Alexander, a charming, brown-eyed child at the
same studio, delights in nothing more than playing boys' parts. Her introduction to the boy character was romantic. One day the director discovered suddenly that he wanted to put a boy in his picture — a ragged boy, with a bundle of newspapers under his arm.