Film Fun (Jan - Dec 1917)

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THANHOUSER The cares of motherhood don't seem to have wrinkled Florence La Badie's brow. She looks almost as young as the baby does. VrTAGRAPH FLOYD, N. Y. "Dear, dear, children are an awful responsibility!" says Anna Brady. THANHOUSER Carey Hastings was the mother of seven in "The Vicar of Wakefield." No wonder she looks so careworn. THE MOTION F By HAZEL fTVHE HERO and the heroine must many trials endure; •*■ To be run over, shot and drowned is not a sinecure. Yet, when it comes to suffering, there's not a Picture Queen But yields the palm in agony to Mother of the Screen. She has to see her Only Boy by Gamblers led astray, The Villain plot and counterplot to capture Daughter May, While Father loves to tipple. Oh, that family's mighty mean To poor, old, white-haired Mother of the Motion Picture Screen ! Of course we know that W But, then, it rhymes so Screen. MACK SENNETT-KEYSTONE STUDIO Alice Davenport has mothered more comedies than any other woman on the screen, but don't tell her we said so. No mother likes to hear her children called "comedies." Mary Maurice looks very proud of her screen son, Marc MacDermott. 8ELIG-POLYSCOPE At one time Eugenie Besserer was known as the champion lady fencer of the world. Now she is a champion mother of the screen.