Motography (Jul - Dec 1915)

192 MOTOGRAPHY Vol. XIV, No. 5. a special script department which is kept informed by the exchanges of the style of stories most popular in their several territories. This department will consist of a staff of high salaried magazine writers who will work in conjunction with experienced scenario writers and while each studio will be allowed to furnish its own scripts when desired they will not be o. k.'d by the central scenario department unless the subject is known to be in popular demand. HELEN BADGLEY Imagine a little imp of seven, full of childish graces, regardless of whether she is at work or play, with roguish black eyes, silky hair, in all the cleverest and brightest kiddie one would wish to meet — and you have an excellent mental photograph of Helen Badgley, among the youngest and cleverest of child players seen in motion pictures. Helen, better known as the Thanhouser "Kid let," made her first screen appearance when only eighteen months old, playing a prominent part in "Brother Bob's Baby," which was filmed at the Thanhouser studios in New Rochelle, N. Y. Since then, this talented youngster has appeared in countless numbers . of Thanhouser photoplays, included among them several of the important multiple reel features produced by Thanhouser. When not engaged in the studio, where she enters into her work with all the seriousness of one of her prominence, Helen is a quaint mixture of childish simplicity and oldish ways and thoughts. Like most little girls, Helen loves her dolls and one of the rooms of her home in New Rochelle, not far from the studios, is devoted entirely to the "nursery." Each doll has a name and several changes of clothing, considerable of which was made by their little "mother." For Helen, despite her years, is an adept with the needle. ANITA STEWART, "THE GODDESS," SA YS HOME LIFE MAKES SUCCESS "Success," said the Vitagraph star, Anita Stewart, who is achieving success through her wonderful impersonation of Celestia in the Vitagraph serial, "The Goddess," "means to me the accomplishment of an ambition, a continual forging ahead to a goal that I may achieve, through study and effort, a place in the Hall of Fame that is worth while. I do not mean the success that comes over night, but the slow, sure success that is attained through careful thought, by obstacles overcome, by work and study and more work. I have heard numbers of persons, in all walks of life, decry success; but to such persons, it usually means too much work ; too much time lost from their pleasures, and consequently, they fall by the wayside, and let it go forth that success is not what it is cracked up to be. Those persons have not achieved success, they simply knocked at the door and because success did not open it immediately, gave up the struggle. Another class achieve a little success and become so imbued with their own importance it is impossible for them to realize the necessity of continued effort in order to retain the prestige already gained. "When I began to make a bid for success, I not only approached the door with determination, but made up my mind that no matter what came, I would plod patiently onward until it was opened, and even now, although a long way from the goal of my ambition I am going to keep on struggling. "When I first began to forge ahead I knew that it was in me to succeed and had I not gained fame through my first efforts, I would have striven again and again. The feeling of satisfaction at the thought . of something accomplished, something worth while being done would have urged me to continue even through several failures. "Notwithstanding the fact that numbers of successful persons say that the home and success do not go together, my home life has been a decided factor in my success and to be deprived of home influence and home comforts would do more to make me fearful of the future than anything else I could imagine. By home I mean a real home, not a suite of apartments in some fashionable hotel or a house miles from the place where your work is being done, in either case surrounded by strangers who do not want to know you and care less about you and what you are, but a home, not too far out, over which a mother presides, who will watch over you and help you to bear all the trials and tribulations that beset the ones who wish to trod the road to real success. "I attribute my present success, first, to the influence of my home life, the study and effort being induced by my home surroundings and life ; second, to my unconquerable desire to attain advancement through my own achievement, clue to my home training'." PAVLOWA ENTHUSIASTIC WORKER IN UNIVERSAL FEATURE STUDIO A representative of Motography got out to the Chicago studios of the Universal Film Company at a most opportune time. Lois Weber, better known as Mrs. Phillips Smalley, hoppened to have a few leisure moments in which she told of the work they were doing at the studios and of some of the experiences they have had. Mme. Anna Pavlowa, the world famous Russian dancer, is posing for the filming of "The Dumb Girl of Portici," and Mrs. Smalley is directing her. Temperament, the cloud behind which many of our great and near great artists hide, was one of the obstacles Mrs. Smalley feared was going to interfere with their working with Mme. Pavlowa. However, she was happily surprised in finding that the famous dancer is one of the most unassuming personages possible, a wonder to work with, absolutely devoid of temperament, and in fact the little lady will be missed by all of her co-workers after the picture is finished. Mrs. Smalley acted as guide around the studio and called special attention to one setting being' erected,