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BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES OF POPULAR PLAYERS
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rough, raw types of the man who lives close to the soil or the woods appeal to him the most.
ELLA HALL
Ella Hall was with David Griffith, of Biograph fame, for over two years, with t h e Reliance i o r a few months, and has been a star with the Rex Company for six months more. It is a short career in pictures, but she is only sixteen. Truly, the camera children of yesterday will be the stars of tomorrow.
When a little girl, she was chosen by David Belasco to play a principal part in "The Grand Army Man." After that she understudied Mary Pickford in "The Warrens of Virginia," and following these appeared with Isabelle Irving in "The Girl Who Has Everything."
Ella Hall owes all her camera training to Lois Webber and Phillips Smalley, her directors. She is at the rare age when she can play either the part of a woman or a child, or the fascinating mixture of both.
HELEN HOLMES
In Helen Holmes' short life is more of interest than in that of most fiction heroines. Before she became the famous "Railroad Girl" for the Kalem Company, she lived, dressed, fought and suffered like a man in Death Vallev
in the Shoshone country. It all came about thru her starting on a prospecting trip with her brother. She lived the life of Bret Harte characters, suffered the thirst of the desert, joined the gold rush and lived among the Indians and half-breeds for several years. Her brother died, and Helen Holmes went back to Southern California.
There she met J. P. McGowan, Kalem 's director, who at the time was looking for a leading woman. When he asked if she would mind daredevil riding, a bad fall or two, swimming thru cataracts or jumping over bridges and incidentally climbing under and over a moving train, she merely smiled. These things were all in the day 's work for her. When you see the "girl at the switch" doing daring deeds, full of danger to life and limb, they are only an echo of what she has done in life.
HELEN GARDNER
When a tragic, earthy, soul gripping role is assigned to a Vitagraph player — the Cleopatra, Francesca da Rimini, Beatrice Cenci or Lucretia Borgia kind — Helen Gardner is cast to interpret it. It is said that no one can do these vivid, and sometimes terrible, characters so well as she.
Born and educated in France, she showed a talent for emotional acting at an early age. She received her finishing touches at the Sargent Dramatic School in New York, and after a short period on the stage joined the Vitagraph Company.
Her interpretation of Becky Sharpe in "Vanity Fair" at once made her famous.
Shortly after this, with her director, Charles L. Gaskill, she estab