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A New Lincoln
Frank Mc Glynn, one-time picture villain, has turned to playing the Emancipator.
FROM one of the most despised villains of the palmy days of moving pictures, Frank McGlynn has become one of the most beloved figures on the American stage. It's been quite a jump. But McGlynn, who has served a long apprenticeship in the theater, deserved the distinction conferred on him when he was approached to play the title role in the New York production of "Abraham Lincoln," the play by John Drinkwater which ran a year in the Hammersmith district, the Bronx of London, before it was ever shown in this country, Lincoln's country! You remember him as an Edison villain. He pursued Mary Fuller through many reels; he was particularly sinister as Jiide in "Joyce of the North Woods." It was while he was with Edison that he first essayed the impersonation of Abraham Lincoln, in "The Life of Lincoln." But curiously enough he was best-known from a picture angle as the man who took the White Sox ballplayers, sixtyseven of them, around the world on their tour, directing the taking of pictures en route.
Preparatory for William Harris, Jr.'s, offer, he has conscientiously studied every phase of the life of Lincoln. From the time he first studied law — he is a graduate of the law school of California's University — ^he made Father Abraham his ideal and idol. When he was a small boy, Lincoln was his favorite hero. His portrayal in the Edison "Life" was not polished, perhaps, as is his present performance, but it was full of feeling and deep sympathy for the character. And McGlynn never stopped studying; so that when he walked on. the first night of the American production of "Abraham Lincoln," his truly remarkable portrait represented the fruition of a lifelong work.
The play, by the way, though composed by
an Englishman, attains a perspective on Lincoln's
life that an American could never have realized.
And the man who faithfully carries out its spirit
was trained by the films.
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