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THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD
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The *• Acting" Member of Essanay
"SHERIFF" G. M. ANDERSON FIRST TO MAKE WESTERN PICTURES, TELLS HOW HE GOT HIS START —SAYS FILM OF THE FUTURE WILL BE A BIG PRODUCTION— ENGAGES NEW LEADING WOMAN.
MR. G. M. ANDERSON, "acting" member of the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company, was in New York recently to attend his first meeting of the Motion Picture Patents Company and to pick from the choice collection of Broadway candidates a new leading lady for his company of Wild West photoplayers. Mr. Anderson was successful in his quest, as we shall observe later; he enjoyed
him, but it is to his credit that prosperity has not disturbed the equilibrium of this Anderson, so he has not forgotten his beginnings.
"My first picture work was done for 'Pop' Rock," he said, drifting into a reminiscent vein. "It was about the time when injunctions were flying about and the film makers were a bit shy. I had an idea of a picture on Raffles and gave the
MR. G. M. ANDERSON.
his brief association with the big moguls of the Licensed picture interests and, on Sunday, Dec. 24, began his return trip to the wilds of San Rafael, Cal., where he holds the honorary position of Sheriff.
While in New York City, Mr. Anderson was, with much difficulty, rounded up by a representative of the Moving Picture \Vorld and "hog-tied" at a lunch table where the branding irons were properly applied. We discovered that he was "bridle-wise" and would stand without being staked out, so we proceeded to put him over the jumps.
Mr. Anderson's rise in the picture business has been little short of spectacular. A man of smaller mentality might have become very much inflated by such success as has come to
plan to 'Pop' with a request that I be allowed to make the picture. He told me to go and see Smith and Blackton. Eventually the picture was made. Sometime after that I tried to make a deal with Harry Davis, but his plans did not appeal to me and I went to see George Kleine. I outlined my proposition to Mr. Kleine and suggested that we form a company to manufacture pictures. He couldn't see it, as he had a big importing business, and sent me to Mr. Selig. I had a hard time getting Selig interested, but finally made a deal with him on a royalty basis. With this to start on I took two women who could act and went to Montana to make 'hold-up' stuff — the regular melodramatic Western picture. These were the first of the Western pictures. After