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Photoplay Magazine
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He
ivas a watchmaker.
Spoilers."
pany that journeyed to the Pacific from Chicago in 1908 in charge of the late Francis Boggs — the first motion picture c o m p a n y in California. He has been with Selig ever since. His biggest portrayal for the screen was that of McNamara in "The He expects to outdo that in his present role, Stephen Bryce, in "The Crisis."
"Bryce is a character wholly different from McNamara, but in its way it appeals to me as strongly as did the other," he said, in a studio lull while a "set" was being staged for "The Crisis."
It interests him very little to converse about himself, but of his work he will talk. "My personal facts are few and I guess pretty well known to those who care about such things," he said. "No objection, however, to your noting my one obsession. It's automobiles. I've smashed up six of them in the last five years, I believe."
"What? Oh, that fiaht stuff. Yes, I've heard the story that certain friends of m i n e in the company tried
to make bad blood between 'Bill' Farnum and me to insure a knock-down affair in 'The Spoilers.' Silly-talk, that. 'Bill' and I are the warmest of friends. We were almost inseparable throughout the making of the play. But it was a real fight, all right. I took a blow in the mouth that loosened two ^ ~'^
three JbTsi\4 "But it was a real fight, all right. "
'I've smashed six of them in the last five years."
teeth, fell over a typewriter and wrenched my back, got a couple of ribs battered, and was sore all over for a few days. I am six feet one inch tall and weigh two hundred and eighteen pounds. Farnum is shorter but at the time of our fight weighed, if I remember, two hundred and fifteen. And he can fight. I know it."
Every star has a right to his g • idiosyncrasies, certainly a star
•-.,- who has given as much of , real worth to the photo
| \ drama as "Tom" Sant
schi. His penchant is failure and refusal to answer any of the thousands of letters from curious strangers which clog his mail. His in%J& difference to these misSf sives is no less than
massive. ^ "Maybe," he is quoted
^. as having said once. "I'll answer one some day — when I get one that's better than all the rest."