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There was no boy to be had right then, but a certain sturdy, bright-eyed little girl spoke up and begged to be allowed to play the part. The director gave his consent if she would hurry, and in exactly ten minutes Lois Alexander walked out of the dressing-room, the most adorable slip of a newsboy that ever "hustled papers" on the streets.
Virginia Myers, the daughter of the New York artists, Jerome and Ethel Myers, the beautiful girl of nine whose technique as a dancer has baffled the critics, has her career marked out for her.
She appears regularly at given intervals at subscription performances before New York's most critical audiences. Her appearance in pictures was in a special reel of dances for the Edison Company. For this, the graceful child received the royal salary of $300 for seven minutes. In the near future she is to be featured in a series of special pictures.
There are two ambitious little screen actresses who have their hearts set on rivaling Pavlowa. Virginia Gitchell, who appears in the prologue of Thomas Ince's latest spectacle, "Civilization," is a member of the ballet school of the Metropolitan Opera. Lena Baskette is a
dark-haired little dancer with the Universal Company. She danced at the request of the great Pavlowa at a private exhibition, and is to be featured in a number of dancing pictures, directed by Lois Weber.
Ethelmary Oakland, who appears with Frederick Warde in "Silas Marner, " wants to be an ingenue, just like Mary Pickford and Marguerite Clark and Mary Miles Minter. She has had a remarkable career, this blue-eyed, lighthaired little maid. She has appeared both on the stage and in pictures. She was with Madge Lessing in "Fads and Fancies" several seasons ago, and played the role of the Japanese baby in "Madame Butterfly" with the Boston Opera Company in New York last winter. She played one of the leading roles in "School Bells," a picture made up largely of children.
There are comparatively few children in motion pictures. Not many more than one hundred appear regularly in pictures at all the studios together. Aside from these, there are children who play occasionally in small "extra" parts or in scenes requiring large numbers of juveniles. The education of these children is rigidly looked after. Many of them have private tutors, but the majority of motion picture children in New York attend the school for
Lena Baskette is the dark-haired girl who is instructing Zoe Du Rae and Dorothy Clark in the mazes of a new
dance step.