The Photo-Play Journal (Jul 1919-Feb 1921)

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34 Photo-Play Journal ideas. They even perpetrate deeds of like ridiculousness upon their children, going so far as to call them Grover Cleveland Washington Jones, Alexander Babe Ruth Smith, John Barrymore Daly Hoover, and the like. Some people, however, come by their names legitimately, and then because they are full of the "red, white and blue'' stuff they refuse to use 'them as part of their public life. We found one like those. Only one thus far. It is beautiful Betty Ross Clark, a charming newcomer in big productions, whose biggest opportunity has just come to her through her appearance in the United Artists' production of "Romance," by Edward Sheldon, which is being used as the picture with which Hiram Abrams ut "the big four" will introduce to the screen lovers Miss Doris Keane. Let's tell you about Betty. On the Clark side she is a direct descendant of Benjamin Franklin. Zebulon Ross, her maternal ancestor, came from Scotland with twelve sons and much worldly goods in 1702 and settled in New York State. All four of her grandparents entitle her to membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution, and Captain Lee, one of the family, makes it possible for her to be a Colonial Dame. Then came along her great-grandfather, who moved to Illinois with much goods and many servants, artisans and the like, and when he BETTY ROSS CLARK A beauty who doesnt need the National colors to win applause IET'S end the act with a flag review and top it off with the appearance _> of Liberty or Columbia. That's a new one. That will bring down the house. It will knock 'em off their seats. You know we pulled it once in Squeedunk and they went wild. Why, Broadway would hail us as the greatest of them all. It would be Standing Room Only at the "hip" if we did it that way. That sounds like the average vaudevillian. Let's have the girl sitting beside the mill and you creep up behind her and gag her, while I'll go to the house and demand her father's farm as ransom. After that we can do — well, we'll fill in a lot of other stuff. Ever hear of "meller-drammer?" Well, there are people who think they're real, and pull the same kind of