Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1914-Jan 1915)

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76 MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE Primarily thru curiosity and an ability to swim. I was in Chicago in May of the year 1910. The Selig people were picturizing an old play, "The Phoenix." In it was the part of a young newspaper man who must needs rescue a young girl from the "hungry waters" of Lake Michigan. Well, I could swim, and was curious to see what "the movies" were like. I was given the part, and liked the work so well that I stayed at Selig 's till November, learning the camera, use of crepe hair (I was utility man and always wore variegated whiskers) and how to write scenarios. At that time I had no idea of sticking to the work, so returned to New York that winter and went to work as an assistant editor of Motor Magazine. But let me in." And they did; and here I am, and glad to be a photoplayer. Wally Reid. A chance meeting with Wilfred Lucas at the Biograph studios in Los Angeles was the cause of my entering Motion Pictures. I had completed a long vaudeville tour in a pianologue act and was tired out, and 1911 springtime came along, and ' ' the office • ' began to be a nightmare, so I went over and knocked at the Vitagraph gates and said: "Please so decided to go to the Pacific Coast for a change. Whilst there I arranged by wire for another engagement, when I paid that momentous visit to the Biograph. I was introduced to Mr. Lucas. "I am from New York," said I. "So am I," said he. And I felt I had found a friend, for I had not yet arrived at the stage where I wanted to stay in Los Angeles. He advised me to try the pictures, and, after some hesitation, I canceled my engagement and allied myself with pictures. I enjoy it and keep busy, for, besides acting, I write a number of scenarios, and I also keep up my music, in case I ever want to go on the stage again. Bess Meredyth.