Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1916)

He "Didn't Want to Do It" By Karl K. Kitchen Will \ Paul 1'. Lawrence came to New Vork from Cleveland, Ohio, he had thirty four suits of clothes, a private haberdashery, a full-grown $15.ooo a year ami some amhish. He went to work in the icy of liis wealthy father's publishing business and had private offices ami a noble desk on which he could resl his patent leather^ at No. ll Park Row, if he had worn them. But he wasn't content. He longed to relax. That is how lie came to be a "movie' _. actor one o\ the few to whom mere wages are not so ant, for he doesn't have car. because he has a ^ luxurious one o\ his Paul Laurence and Ethel Barryniore in " The Final Judgment. " The picture below slums Mr. Lawrence playing with Yatli Yalli. A your,- Russian actress. Mile. Voiia l.andowska, was visiting at the Lawrence home in the upper Eighties. One day Lawrence accompanied her to the Metro studio 'ud a director mistook him for one of the hired actors and brusquely put him to work. At Mile. Landowska's suggestion he "fell for it." He quit Father's job and became a 'movie" actor. In another city Father aw Son's face on the screen — and went wild and wrote a letter and enclosed a check and said "Get out of town!" Son took a vacation to the Bermudas. then came hack and got into ■-, the pictures again, because he i couldn't keep out! 139