Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1916)

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100 Photoplay Magazine acter parts is distinctively sleazy, and never lazy. It is her diversion, when leisure hours intervene between sets, to tog out as an extra and work — for the fun of it — with some other Keystone company, much to the satisfaction of the director in charge. She rises every morning at 6 :30, breakfasts with her father and mother an hour later, puts in twenty minutes in her motor spinning through the fresh California air to the studio — and is ready for the day's work. Seldom does she get home before 5 or 6 o'clock in the evening ; then, if not too tired, she likes to put on a great apron and take shears and go among her flower-beds, clipping blooms for the dinner table. After dinner there are the evening papers to glance through, perhaps a chapter in some favorite book to read, and not later than 9 o'clock is bedtime. "Terribly commonplace, isn't it?" Polly M'jran smiled, as a knock on her dressingroom door reminded her that a scene was ready ; "but I rind it not at all humdrum. I love my work before the camera, and of course I hope I may be always under Mr. Sennett's direction." Miss Polly Moran waved an affectionate hand to the walls of her dressing-room, covered with tokens of love and trophies of her Art from all the world over, and fled gracefully to the waiting stage to transfer morelaughs to the celluloid via the clicking camera. "Ramona" Number One Though the Clune-made "Ramona" is now filing whole evenings, and long oiws at that, it is interesting to recall the Biograph production, astoundingly compressed into a single reel I This picture was released May 23, 1910. Ramona was played by Mary Picktord, Alcssandro by Henry Walthall. Felipe by Francis Grandin, Senora Moreno by Kate Bruce, and Father Salvierderra by W. Chrystic Miller. Above arc Miss Pickford and Mr. Walthall, in their characterizations. This photoplay, taken in California, was direrted by a man who made a number of pleasing little pictures about that time. If we remember correctly, his name was D. W. Griffith.