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Pictures and PichjreVve'
DECEMBER 1924
Just Juliarx
Juhan Eltinge can be a perfect lady on the stage or screen, but he can use his fists too when necessary.
Somewhere round twenty-five years ago a small boy, burning with honest indignation, went through a spirited refusal to don skirts. Violence, in the shape of another small boy, sitting very hard on his head, while a companion pulled the despised garment over j&. pair of protesting legs, helped him to see reason, and he was forced at last to make the best of a bad job and to play his part as a female member of the chorus in a school play. This victim of a girlish face and pink and white complexion made such a successful debut as a feminine charmer that he was next year made leading lady. After that he gave up struggling against Fate, and at the age of seventeen he started playing lovely ladies on the stage proper.
"""Twenty years have passed since then, and Bill Dalton the man, became Julian Eltinge, famous female impersonator. Not that he always found it easy to be a woman, but the public, once having seen him in feminine attire, clamoured for more. So he set to work to master
the difficult technique of " acting like a lady," and studied physical culture, dancing, voice training and all those laws of beauty and fascination, that constitute womanly loveliness.
Many successful years on the stage brought him the offer of a film contract, and he resolved to try his luck on the silent sheet. His first film was a Lasky production called The Countess, in which, as a young lover icrast out of society through no fault of his own, he assumes the role of a bogus Countess
Right : He makes a very fascinating " woman."
at Southampton, and wondering where the hat box with the " chic little creation from Paris " has got to, you'll know it's just Julian ! And if you want to find out whether he's got a temper or no address him as Madame and see what
Above : Mary Pickford makes Julian feel at home in the studio by giving an impersonation o f him. Left and right : Julian as he appears on and off the stage.
and goes through some amusing adventures. This was such a success that he followed it up with two others — The Clever Mrs. Carfax and The Wido-u-'s Might. Then came Over the Rhine, in which he wore no less than thirty gowns ! And after that An Adventuress, a mixture of bathinggirls, thrills, comedy and burlesque. Then he went back to the vaudeville stage again, and toured the principal American halls under the able direction of William Morris, who was at one time associated with Harry Lauder.
l_Je has never gone back to the screen — vaudeville audiences won't give him the chance. And now he plans to visit England. So if you notice a smiling someone sitting on a pile of trunks