Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Dec 1920)

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We went from manager to manager, but none of them would take a chance on me or pay any attention to the records I had made in Australia. \Vhenever any one asked our address we used to avoid giving it by saying tliat we were expecting to move as soon as we could find a suitable place. Of course, anything was better than admitting tliat we lived in King's Cross !" At last, when they had only one ha'penny left, she got her chance. The London Dally Mirror offered to back her if she would enter the Channel swimming contest. It was explained to her tliat she would have to remain in the water long enough to make a showing — at least three hours, and the longer she stayed after that the more money she would get. She suffered from nausea, but whenever she was tempted to give up she reminded herself that the longer she stuck the more she would get, and thinking of that single ha'penny, which w-as all her worldly wealth, she remained in the water for six and a half hours. (On another occasion, when she attempted to swim the Channel, she remained in the contest for ten and a half hours and got three-quarters of the way across, a record for a woman.) For her first attempt she was given thirty pounds ($150.) But it was not until some time afterward that she began to make a steady income. The real incentive of her many record-breaking endurance swims was her very great horror of extreme poverty. The following year she and her father came to America, and she gave swimming exhibitions at White City Park in Chicago. They charged ten cents admission and gave fifty-five performances a week. Her first vaudeville engagement was at a salary of $300 a week. Her popularity was so tremendous, however, that her salary grew to $1,200 and she worked for two years in the Keith theaters without a day's vacation. But she was denied the joy of sharing prosperity with her father as they had shared their poverty. This was her greatest regret. At this point, Mr. Sullivan, her husband, came up to a.sk if I wouldn't like to see the exercise room. It was a perfect little "g}'m," converted from a screened porch in the back of the house, overlooking the orange grove. This "gym" is large enough and equipped in such a way that she can practice her golf and tennis strokes with ease. She continues to keep in practice with her ballet dancing and tight-rope walking ; in fact, with evei-ything that serves to keep her fit. After a conversation with Annette Kellerman one carries away an impression of bulldog tenacity of purpose, almost awesome in its intensity. "Tennis means more to me right now than anything else," she said. "I am never so happy as when the Bundys or MOTION PICTURE CLASSIC Mary Browne tell me that I have played my game well." Tom and May Sutton Bundy, Mary and Nat Browne are her nearest friends. "Isn't it odd," Annette Kellerman went on, "how, when you really want to do a thing, the importance of it seems to grow and grow until nothing else matters at all ? For instance, I spent hours and hours trying to learn how to walk a ball. There wasn't any particular use in my knowing how to walk a ball, but I kept on with it until I could do it quite easily. Of course, it will come in handy now." We had returned to our favorite spot on the lawn where the sun was warmest. "No more fairy stories ?" I queried, referring to her recent arrangement with Sol Lesser under which she will make moving pictures with her own company which will be exploited and controlled by him. "Not for a while at least," she answered. "You know, the way this arrangment came about was that I made some one-reel educational pictures on how a woman could keep healthy. I showed these to Mr. Lesser and he'liked them so well that he made me this offer to do five-reel comedy-dramas in which I will play a modern athletic girl. I think that it will be something really new !" The Greatest of Popularity Contests (Contiiuied from page 51) Male stars: William S. Hart, 5,982; Richard Barthelmess, 4,821 ; Wallace Reid, 4,624; Douglas Fairbanks, 3,829; Eugene O'Brien, 2,317; William Farnum, 2,019; Charles Ray, 1,752; Douglas McLean, 1,546; T. Warren Kerrigan, 1,503; Tom Mix, 1,207; Charles Chaplin, 1,050; \yilliam Russell. 911 ; Tom Moore. 816; Kenneth Harlan, 700: Antonio Moreno, 700; George Walsh, 700; Harrv Northrup, 515; Harrison Ford, 447; Ralph Graves, 447; Louis Bennison, 389; Elliott Dexter, 389; Bert Lytell, 389; Thomas Meighan, 341 ; Rodnev La Rocque, 325. The Cost of the Modern Photoplay {Continued from page 79) "The district between Fifty-ninth and Forty-second streets, wherein lie all the big New York movie houses, is a land of jaded, cynical theatergoers," he maintains. "Their opinion isn't worth anything as a criterion to judge a photoplay's reception by the country at large. They care nothing for the staple realities ; they want something to stir their blase appetites. Hence the enthusiastic reception of 'Broken Blossoms' and the lukewarm way 'The Miracle Man' was received in New York. Producers are coming to avoid New York for film premieres." Which we submit as Mr. Dwan's opinion — and manifestly not our own. (Eight)/) ' I ifiritfliTiB