Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Dec 1916)

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rts Much About Wild and Woolly Animals Movie Star WADE sought-after person ; in fact, such actors or actresses are dubbed “specials” and always command a fat pay-envelope. An almost perfect exemplar of the “animal actress” is Lyllian Leighton, of the E and R Company. This sterling character-woman, who was for many years a Selig leadingwoman, has the animal instinct developed to a rare degree. Just at present her menage is composed of a pair of apes, “Napoleon” and “Norah,” the male and female of the species. And a rare old boy and girl they are. Nobody knows just how old they are, but they’ve surely earned their golden wedding as far as salary is concerned. The uncanny skill with which they act with Lyllian Leighton, and she with them, is a latter-day product of screen resourcefulness. Miss Leighton is a “mother” to all kinds of animals and birds. In the environs of her Lc Angeles bungalow she is a perpetual wonder to her nei<: bors — one moment she is gamboling with a litter of lion cubs ; the next she is calling to her pet eagle, who swoops down to perch on her shoulder from his eerie patrol. Another bird-fancier par excellence is Lois Weber; and a sight that would moisten the eyes of an artist, or of a director with a “seeing soul,” is her mother-call that brings a white-and-gray storm-cloud of pigeons around and about her, filling her ample bosom and tapping lovingly at her white kernels of teeth. So much praise has been sung of Kathlyn Williams, the only legitimate successor to Daniel, the original lion-tamer, that no animal story would be truly wild without mention of her. She shall not be dragged in, editorially, by the heels, as it were. So here’s a toast to her : “Kathlyn — lithe as the wrinkling skin of a panther ; brave as a lioness fending her whelps ; surefooted as a bighorn scaling the mountain-lined clouds ; dowered with the skill of Nimrod, the wisdom of Noah, the compassion of Androcles, and the lion-heart of Richard — we crown you liege-woman of your animal queendom !” Into Bold Ones The jungle and the pasture now lie down together. (Thirty-one)