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olet Heming Looks upon Acting as a Business
Miss Heming, “and it was odd that a few years later a project was started to film ‘The Christian.’ I was offered a role. Pauline Frederick, then unknown to the screen, was to have played in it, along with James O’Neil and Brandon Tynan. But the scheme fell thru and later the play was screened^ by the Vitagraph Company.”
We recalled seeing Miss Heming in a road company of “Peter Pan” with Vivian Martin, the present film star, as Peter. Then the dignified Miss Heming was just a mere schoolgirl Wendy, Miss Martin a juvenile and boyish Peter.
Miss Heming laughed. “I thought that had been forgotten. Wendy was my first role in this country, the very year I came over. I was just a gawky girl then. Right after that I played ‘Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.’ In fact, I was the original Rebecca, Edith Taliaferro playing it in New York after I had played it on the road. Violet Mersereau was the Clara Bell, Edith Storey the Emmy Jane, and Ernest Truex was in the cast. It was a regular movie company, altho none of us thought even remotely of . the photoplay then.”
Meanwhile Miss Heming kept right on growing. Ingenue roles came and then leading parts with such stars as George Arliss. Altho she played in companies fairly rife with budding screen stars, the celluloid lure quite passed her by. It was not until a year or so ago that she did her first picture.
“It was terrible and we shall forget all about it,” confessed Miss Heming. “I didn’t know the first thing about screen make-up and I looked quite awful. My real screen debut was in ‘The Judgment House,’ which J. Stuart Blackton produced.
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Miss Heming longs for the screen to do costume or romantic pictures. “I know that’s rank heresy,” she says, “but I love picturesque and beautiful clothes”
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