Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1922)

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Trie Pioneer of the Srtaaowed Drama BARBARA BEACH the business. Prophets, however, are seldom heeded in their own land until it is too late. High up among the purpling foothills of the Rocky Mountains, Hobart Bosworth has gathered about him his lares and penates ... all the beloved household treasures that he has garnered thru his adventurous fifty-four years. His walls are lined with books whose covers are worn froin many readings. There are relics from sea voyages and trips to the snow country, to Yosemite, Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon. Every nook Photograph by Melbourne Spurr, L. A. H AS it ever occurred to you to wonder who was the pioneer stage star to enter pictures? Who was the first to be brave enough to leave the laurels of achieved success behind the burning footlights and Columbus his way into the silent paths of the newly blossomed art? Hobart Bosworth was the man, and even now he bears, offstage, the air of a prophet rather than that of a fistfighting cinema actor. From the beginning, he prophesied the possibilities of pictures and even now he could prescribe the proper tonic for the financial sickness /T\ which has beset LfKCE "Life is a funny proposition," Hobart Bosworth said. "It plays tricks on you. Each time success has sought me, it has been in another line from that in which I was seeking it." Above, a camera study of Mr. Bosworth, while at the right and below, he is seen in characters from his recent pictures and cranny reveals the personality of the man: beautiful paintings of nature in her many varied moods, bearing the signature of Hobart Bosworth in the -lower right hand corner; photographs of him in Shakespearian garb and in Roman togas; easels with unfinished paintings on them and surrounded by the other impedimenta of an artist. And all this in a hotel ! When I stepped across the threshold of his living-room on the second floor of the fashionable Beverly Hills Hotel, I left behind me dull realities and entered a fairyland of imagination. Mr. Bosworth said : (Continued on page 88)