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A ovembe r, 1920
A PRACTICAL
DREAMER —
GASTON GLASS
By DOROTHEA B. HERZOG
"XX 7"E are °f suc^ things as dreams are
\\I made of."
T T The words of Shakespeare, but
spoken by Gaston Glass, reveal in a single slant his rapid rise to success in motion pictures. Gaston Glass, an unknown wounded French soldier, alone in a strange country, has become a commanding figure in current picture plays, including "The Humoresque" and "The World and His Wife," followed by Ralph Connor's "The Foreigner." After wondering what would supply the next step in this young man's amazing rise in -motion pictures, we are' pleased, but not surprised, to learn that he had been detained in the same location where "The Foreigner" was filmed to appear as a featured player in the second Ralph Connor picture, "Cameron of the Royal Mounted."
We wanted to know more about young Gaston Glass, so we sought him out and found him ensconced in a huge armchair in his apartment, reading a French periodical. He
is young, clean cut, and — need we say? — good looking ; tall and slenderly lithe. There are little crinkles at the corners of his expressive brown eyes which deepened into a broad smile of welcome as he arose to greet us in his whole hearted boyish way.
But Mr. Glass soon proved that he is about as talkative as an oyster, insofar as he himself is concerned. However, even "oneself" crops out behind modest reticence now and then. So in due course we discovered that he is a fiery Frenchman, that he has played with Mme. Sarah Bernhardt on the French stage and was, in fact, her special protege. He left his beloved stage whan war was declared, to enlist in the aviation service. He was severely wounded, came to America to recuperate and also, we wager, to speak at the Liberty Loan meetings.
But recuperating, to a young man of Mr. Glass' zealous nature, is the next thing to stagnation. Time often weighed heavily on his hands. So he determined at last to return home. A happy occurrence, the turning point in the young actor-aviator's career, postponed his return and has, by the way, continued to postpone it to this day.
Mr. Glass had a way of engaging in conversation, American soldiers just returned from France. He enjoyed trying to "carry on" with them in French ; he also harbored a hazy idea of perhaps finding a soldier who had met his own dear ones.
One afternoon, shortly before he had planned to purchase his passage for France, he was conversing within the walls of an actors' club with an American soldier. The
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