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MARGUERITE CLARK'S THREE STEPS TO FILMDOM
By Herself
Most of us believe that the ladder of Fame has decidedly more then three steps, but on dividing our lives into the important phases through which we have passed to reach the degree of success we have attained, we find there are not many after all. It is this that Marguerite Clark has done in giving the following brief sketch of her life which she has divided into three great phases or "steps . "
"My father was A. J. Clark, a prominent merchant of Cincinnati, while mother was a society woman, and very beautiful.
Neither of my parents ever worked on the stage. I was born at Avondale, Ohio, and as both my parents died before I was eleven years old, my elder sister placed me in the Ursuline Convent where I remained for three years.
"This period and that which followed it, when I began appearing in amateur theatricals with marked success, I call the first ’step' for it gave me the desire to join the theatrical profession and did a great deal in my training.
"The second step began in Baltimore, Md . , where I made my first professional appearance with the Aborn Opera Company in a very small part. Later I did a little musical comedy work and soon turned to straight comedy in which I was seen in "Jim the Penman" and "Baby Mine." In the latter I created the role of Zoie at Chicago. Later plays were: "Lights o' London," "Affaires of Anatole," and in 1912, the title role of "Snow White" at the Little Theatre, New York City. My last stage success was "Prunella."
"The third and last step began when Adolph Zukor saw a photograph of me in "Prunella" and started speculating as to whether I would photograph well for the motion picture screen. Although he was familiar with my career, he attended several performances of "Prunella" in order to be really sure and to study my every mannerism .
"Thus the end of the long run enjoyed by 'Prunella' found me forsaking the stage to appear in a photoplay adaptation of 'Wildflower.' This met with success and letters from different parts of the country began coming in to me and to Mr. Zukor, asking to see me again. Something about the way I worked 'got hold' of them as they said in the studio--but personally, I believe it was because I enjoyed the work so thoroughly that people just like to see me have a good time!
"The pictures in which I have appeared since then in this third and greatest step of my life, are in the order of their appearance: 'The Crucible,' 'The Goose Girl.' 'Gretna Green,' 'The Pretty Sister of Jose,' 'Seven Sisters,' 'Still Waters,' 'The Prince and the Pauper, ' 'Mice and Men, ' 'Out of the Drifts, '
' Molly-Make-Believe , ' 'Silks and Satins,' 'Little Lady Eileen,' 'Miss George Washington, ' 'Snow White, ' 'The Fortunes of Fifi, '
'The Valentine Girl,' 'The Amazons' and now 'Bab's Burglar,' which will appear at the Theatre on "
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