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"Mother-NotAshamed
of-H
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Which, for a celebrated beauty and prominent screen star you'll admit is going some.
DIP you kimw Kitty Gordon .in Indian name? You didn't! Well, neither did we until just the other jay. Then we found that translated, "Kitty Gordon" means. "MotherDot-ashamed-of-her-daughter." Thi is not the unezpurgated Indian, of
course, but it will serve.
You see Kitty — who is an in temational celebrity ami beauty and the possessor of the world's most famous back — Ims not supposed to have a daughter. Her press-agent was quite firm about it. He would permit a sister, but a daughter — never! So he went about telling everyone that the seventeen-year-old young lady with Miss Gordon, who was going to act in Miss Gordon's new pictures, was Miss Gordon's sister, Vera Beresford. But Kitty herself crabbed his act. She indignantly denied that Vera was her sister and stubbornly insisted on acknowledging Vera as her daughter. And for an international music-hall favorite and celebrated beauty and prominent screen star you'll admit that's going some.
It was in the London '•halls'' that Miss Gordon tirst won recognition. Later she extended her popularity to this side of the Atlantic. IJer American debut was not a marked success, as the vehicle, "Veronique,'" did not give her an opportunity to make a real impression. However, she
came back in the leading role of "He Came from Milwaukee." with Sam Bernard, and scored an instantaneous hit. An engagement in the Wintergarden show. "La Belle Paris,'' followed. After that she was starred in Victor Herbert's operetta. "The Enchantress." Then came vaudeville and a tour in "Pretty Mrs. Smith." Later Miss Gordon formed a vaudeville partnership with Jack Wilson and the team was a big headline feature. In 1916 she went into pictures with World, appearing in "As in a Looking Glass." She continued with World for some months, leaving to do one picture, "Vera, the Medium," under the auspices of the short-lived G. M. Anderson corporation. Under the William A. Bradv regime at World she con
Kitty was not, according to the Hoyle of Popularity, supposed to have a daughter. Her press-agent was quite firm about it, but he was evidently out of power when the above picture was snapped, proclaiming: mother at right, and daughter at left.
tributed to the World program, and remained until the newly-formed United Pictures Productions offered to star her at the head of her own company.
Miss Gordon was married in England to the Hon. H. H. — now Captain Beresford, youngest son of a noble British family. Vera was born in England seventeen years ago, and she attended school abroad until, in 1014, she joined her mother over here.
"And now," says Vera, "now I'm in Pictures. I'm not studying and I'm not worrying about anything but my picturework. I do hope I'll have a chance, in Mummy's new pictures, to show what I can do."
Miss Beresford has already played with Pauline Frederick in "Paid in Full" and "A Daughter of the South."
THE NA TION OWES a great debt of gratitude to the soldiers in France who fought in the first line of attack and to the wage earners at home who backed them up. Peace has imposed new duties upon us all; let us work to perform these duties even more earnestly than when war was on. U. S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
W. B. WILSON, Secretary of Labor
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