The Moving Picture Weekly (1916-1917)

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-THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY 21 Lule Warrenton Becomes a Director lOME of us are bom old, while others seem to have drunk of the fountain of youth and the years have absolutely no power over them. One of those who have succeeded in outwitting Father Time is Lule Warrenton, the Universal's famous character actress, who owns to fiftytwo, and is growing younger every year. "Mother" Warrenton, as she is affectionately called at Universal City, has been on the stage all her life — literally all her life, as she was carried on the first time when she was only a few months old. A history of the American stage would be incomplete without her name, which has always stood for what is best and highest in dramatic art. She has owned her own company; she has managed stars; she has supported, in the role of character woman, nearly every actor of prominence in the last thirty years; she has toured Europe, under the management of the famous Major Pond, where she gave dramatic readings from ' Shakespeare, Browning, and Tennyson for three seasons. Three years ago she went into pictures under the banner of the Universal Film Company, with which company she has remained ever since. She has seen screen players come and go, but she remains firmly intrenched in her unique position, which would be extremely difficult to fill. A list of her important roles would be far too long for the Weekly; but some of her recent parts have been the socialclimbing mother in "It Happened in Holoulu," the housekeeper in "Drugged Waters," both Red Feathers, and the Italian nurse in the Bluebird "Tangled Hearts," for which she was specially loaned to the Bluebird or CREATOR of many character roles at Universal City for three years, at last attains her ambition to direct pictures for children. Allan Watt her assistant. By Peter Pepper. ganization. She is a mistress of the art of make-up, which fact she proved abundantly in the latter production, in which she had to change herself, before the searching eye of the camera, from a middle-aged peasant woman, to an old creature, grown half childish from age. Her dependability and the wide recognition at the picture city of her striking ability, cause a great demand for her services. At one time, recently, three directors were contending for her, all at once. Phillips Smalley wanted her for a part with Tyrone Power. And she was just about to accept when up came Francis Ford, who said he simply had to have her for one of his pictures. Then Dowlan appeared, who said that the part of the character woman in his Red Feather "Drugged Waters" had been written with her in mind, and that no one else could play it. Mother Warrenton had to do some tall thinking, but she was able by careful planning to make an arrangement which was satisfactory to every one. Ijg^ She confessed, a long time ago, that her greatest ambi tion was to be the director of special features for children. This was a modest ariibition, but very near her heart. When she was informed the other day that her dream had come true, she could hardly believe in her good fortune. She lost no time in setting to work and chose her company from among the ranks of the Universal's large "flock of starlings." Her assistant director will be Allan Watt, and her company will include Clara Horton, the fearless little girl who has been featured in some of Henry McRae's Bison pictures, Nora Dempsey, Irma Sorter, and Benjamin Suslow. Other children will be added to the list as occasion arises. A very important member of the force, who will be featured in the first picture, is Ernestine Jones, a little colored girl, who is a great favorite with Mrs. Warrenton. She will have the name part in the film called "The Calling of Lindy," which tells the story of a child with a big, unmanageable voice, who is always getting into trouble by making too much noise, but who finally saves the whole school by making her voice heard above the din, when the school house catches fire. The Warrenton family is well represented in the Universal. "Mother" Warrenton's son, Gilbert, is one of the best of the Animated Weekly's fine corps and every one knows what that means. He has just returned from Mexico, with Beverly Griffith, another of the staff of the Animated, where the two have secured a number of "scoops" of the thrilling scenes in (Continued on page 35) Lule Warrenton directing her first picture, "The Calling of Linda." Allan Watt is at her right, and Margaret Whistler, the only grown-up in the picture, is standing in the doorway of the school ringing the bell.