Moving Picture World (Apr-Jun 1917)

782 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD May 5, 1917 M Popular Picture Personalities WHO'S WHO IN THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD • "" " ,.■■.-: ' ' ■ ■■!■■ -■• : ■ ' COMPILED BY THE STATISTICAL DEPARTMENT {CUM McDOWELL, Claire. Born in New York City. Her parents were Americans of Scotch and English descent. Is five feet two inches tall and weighs 115 pounds. Dark complexion, brown hair and eyes. Miss McDowell made her stage debut about fifteen years ago and played with the Charles Frohman and Brady productions. She was in the stage production of The Clansman, from which The Birth of a Nation was evolved, and with William Faversham in Herod. About 1910 she became connected with the Biograph and for several years she was one of the most valued members of that famous company recruited by David Griffith. She left when the company permanently located on the coast, but she could not stay out of pictures and soon became connected with Universal. To — ■ ^„ mention notable parts would be to list most of the old Biographs, but His Trust and The Female of the Species will be recalled vividly. BENSON, Patrica (Pat). Born in San Francisco. Norwegian-Danish parentage. Is five feet six inches tall and weighs 135 pounds. Light complexion, light brown hair and dark brown eyes. ■ Miss Benson, who prefers to be called Pat, has had no stage experience and, as yet, rather a limited studio career, for she made her debut with the BalJmL****^^. b°a company in September, 1916, in Told at Twilight. She is one of the three women players in the Los Angeles district who is neither lead nor k ^BB^-fc heavy. She plays ingenues and plays ^ v i them well. She was the veiled woman in the Pathe serial The Neglected Wife. Miss Benson is unusual in other ways, for she does not write it down that she loves all outdoor sports. Her diversions are more quiet and restful, for she divides her spare time between painting and music, but she'll get the habit in time and rubber-stamp "all athletic sports" like the rest of the /"" 2v^~ players. LORRAINE, Leota. Born in Kansas City, Mo. Her father was of German birth and her mother of Scotch-Irish descent. Is five feet six inches tall and weighs 130 pounds, pair complexion, blond hair and blue eyes. Miss Lorraine has had no stage experience, but she has played with the Essanay, Metro and Morosco companies and is at present a member of the Balboa forces. Her screen debut was made in March, 1915, playing opposite Bryant Washburn in George Ade's fable of The High Roller and the Buzzing Blondine. Other roles were leads or heavies in A Bunch of Keys, The Promise and Giving Becky a Chance. Miss Lorraine, of course, loves all sorts of outdoor sports, but she is also domestic in her tastes, for when she gets the chance she loves to sit down with her sewing basket at hand and make pretty things. She is fond of dancing. I^S^A^ <3J3-T^rOJuwSL_ HALE, Creighton. Born iri Cork, Ireland. Irish-English parentage. Is nearly five feet ten inches tall and weighs 138 pounds. Fair complexion, blond hair, blue eyes. He made his stage debut when he was but five years of age and has had long experience. Was with John Mason in Indian Summer and with Holbrook Blinn in Moloch. Made his picture debut in 1913 and has played with Pathe, Famous Players, Solax, Eclair, Edison, RolfeMetro and other companies. At present he is filling a two-year contract with Pathe, playing juvenile leads and light comedy. He was Jameson in The Exploits of Elaine, Davy in The Iron Claw, Prince Charming in Snow White, Clem in The Three of Us, Reuben in The Old Homestead and Jimmy in Charity. Mr. Hale is devoted to motoring and aviation, having been a member of the Aero ' Qo , n,/— \i . Club for the past two years, swims, (O.AJ^X-^^'^wk is a tennis player and plays v*a*k poker. (J TALMADGE, Constance. Born in New York City. American parentage. Is five feet six inches tall and weighs 120 pounds. Fair complexion, golden hair, brown eyes. Miss . Talmadge made her debut in April, 1915, in Vitagraph's Uncle Bill, remaining with that company until she went to the Fine Arts. She had had no stage experience, beginning directly with pictures. She was the Mountain Girl in the big production of Intolerance and among other parts likes best The Girl of the Timber Claims, The She Devil, Betsy's Burglar and the Matrimaniacs, in which she was featured with Douglas Fairbanks. Her early Vitagraph work was almost wholly in comedies, but she has run the gamut of the emotions. She is a sister of Norma Talmadge, also a Vitagraph debutante. She has no fads, but she likes all out doors and is fond of dancing, driving her own car, walking and swimming. -^j-i^siZets^e*' G(wWi^4^' LEBRUN, Mignon. Born in Xew York City. French parentage. Is five feet three inches tall and weighs 130 pounds. Fair complexion, auburn hair and deep blue eyes. Miss Lebrun passes over her stage career with the nonilluminating remark that she had too little experience to relate anything of general interest. She made her picture debut in Balboa's Pay Dirt in 1916 and has remained with that company ever since, playing heavy parts. One hundred and thirty pounds does not seem to be a very good foundation for a line of heavy roles, but this is where her French ancestry comes into good service, for she makes up in fire what she lacks in avordupois and she does vampiring or the less exacting general meanness with conviction and effect. Outdoors she devotes her interest to blooded bulldogs. In the house her preference is , j <0 /^n for good literature, and //L^PVOT^INSL. fPjMA'ls^ she knows what good si books are. U