Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1920)

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98 Photoplay Magazine courage rarely found in a girl of her age. She had previously found odd bits of employment in the studios near her home and now she was compelled to seek a permanent means of livelihood before the camera. At the very outset of her career she realized that in order to make a success of her vocation she must like her work, which she did, and what is more the work liked her. Because she exemplified that purity and wholesomeness typical of young American girlhood, the camera absorbed her very personality. Her success was assured but it did not carry' with it any noticeable change in the character, disposition or ambition of the girl herself. While she possessed an air of refinement which made her respected and admired by all with whom she came in contact, she was not in the slightest degree, to use the theatrical slang, "upstage." Never did she put Chandler, his welfare or his future, out of her mind. She prepared his breakfast for him in the mornings and helped him with his lessons at night. So that he would not acquire any effeminate traits that sometimes come to boys who receive an overabundance of sisterly attention, Marjorie heartily approved of Chandler's participation in all kinds of athletic games and exercises at school with the result that he rapidly developed physically as well as mentally. Although he is now but fourteen years of age he leads in football, baseball and other strenuous pastimes that come natural to the red blooded American boy. But when Marjorie's studio day is done and Chandler's school hours are over, they can often be found in a frolic around the garden. With a world of knowledge gained from a variety of life stories in which she has so many times enacted principal parts, Mar A snapshot taken when Marjorie was fourteen, shortly after Geraldine Farrar evinced an interest in the youngster. Marjorie walked into the Lasky studios one day, played a small part — and has been before the camera ever since jorie never fails to give her best advice for the betterment of her brother's future. In a word she mothers Chandler as she eagerly watches him grow into full bloom of American youth. Always before retiring for the night, they go over Chandler's plans for the future. After careful consideration in the selection of a profession they have decided that architecture is his proper calling and upon the completion of his present high school course he will enter the best university available where he will study the most modern methods of building construction. Some day perhaps we will see erected a monument or building that will be the last word in architecture. And if on the cornerstone we read an inscription that Chandler Daw is responsible for its beauty, let's not forget that to Marjorie will belong a portion of the credit. For is not this pretty little blue eyed sister by her devotion and affection guiding him on to success? Marjorie's real name is Margaret House. She took the name of the nursery rhyme heroine because it had always been her favorite fairy-tale. She came to the Lasky studio one day, for a job. She had played various small parts in Universal pictures, one with Cleo Madison; so she was not without some filxn experience. But the way of the small-part actress is hard, particularly when one is just a httle girl. And it was not until Geraldine Farrar called attention to her talents that Marjorie was finally given a real part, with Chariotte Walker in "Out of Darkness." Then she had her first big chance: the part of the little sister in "The Chorus Lady," with Cleo Ridgely and Wallace Reid. After she was with Farrar in "Joan the Woman," Douglas Fairbanks annexed her as his leading woman and she played opposite Doug in many pictures, the last one being "His Majesty the American." ^ The Indiana Cowpuncher Used to producing authors, Indiana slipped up and produced a cowboy instead BUCK JONES has put something over on Indiana. He was born there — in Vincennes — but instead of turning to books he turned to horses. Montana knew him when he was very young; he was "The Kid" on the Triangle Bar Ranch at Red Lodge. After he had convinced the other cowpunchers that here was one tenderfoot who would not knuckle down to them, Buck enlisted in the U. S. Cavalry and saw hard service in the Philippines. Later years saw him in Oklahoma, with Miller's loi outfit. About the time when it looked as though Buck was riding squarely into a world's championship, the war broke — and Buck went to it. He broke horses; he flew a 'plane over the lines; but his greatest service was as a rider. He rode for all the royalty of the Allied countries. After the war was over Buck Jones came back — and he's still riding only this time he's headed straight for the camera.