Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Aug 1919)

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Richman, Poorman, Beggarman — ! They’re All Frank Losee By C. BLYTHE SHERWOOD Frank Losee started out as a boy to study law. That is, the he to which his folks were able to dictate. But in between dusty volumes young Losee was haunted by the whispers of himself — the callings of his heart’s desire. He — wanted — to — act. And because his want was earnest, because his earnestness persisted in caring for a thing of interest, because his interest was supported by youth in all its doggedness of determination — he gave up plowing printed words, and joined the Hooley Stock Company of Brooklyn. When a famous cartoonist made world-known that series, “Let George Do It,’’ he meant really, and should have said, “Leave it to Frank.” Whenever the Hooleys were in doubt as to whom they could cast for their varied parts, they would come up smiling with the inspiration, “Say! There's •that big, young person — the good looker with the round voice.” His thirty years’ training on the legitimate stage well prepared him for the cinema. Mr. Losee has played the roles of richman, poorman, beggarman, thief, as vividly as he enacted the parts of doctor, lawyer, Indian chief. To both his stage and screen directors he showed that, when it came to a tossup between tradition and something new, he could win out with the latter, by completely abolishing the idea of having just “certain people for certain people.” He did away, once and for all, with the belief that, if an aged negro were needed to portray an aged negro, the casting men would have to go out and find an aged negro. These incessant switchings from part to part {Continued on page 78) Upper right, Mr. Losee playing himself; just below is a glimpse of Mr. Losee with Pauline Frederick in “Sapho” ; in the lower right corner, as Scarpia in “La Tosca”; as Uncle Tom in the small circle; and, lozver left, in “Great Expectations”