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FEBRUARY 1925
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Top left: As "General Orlando Jackson" in "The Fighting Cozvard." Above: As "Petit Patou " in " The Sideshow of
Life." Left: In "Broken Chains;" and Beloiv: Ernest as "Captain Hook " in " Peter Pan" crosses swords with one of the boy actors on the set, under the approving eye of Herbert Brenon.
tained more stars than Dick Barthelmess and Gladys Hulette. I noticed him first as " Mahaffey " in The Prodigal Judge, where as the bibulous, lovable friend of the Judge he achieved an instantaneous success.
\To one seemed to realise that a genius had suddenly appeared in the Vitagraph studio ; nevertheless, in an otherwise negligible picture, a Personality effectively prevented the audience from being bored. Ernest Torrence had arrived.
Genius will out, and something like Tol'able David was bound to follow. Even then I don't think many people suspected the number of scintillating character studies that were to follow close on each other's heels. : I myself, with all my Torrential prejudice, was a bit nervous lest the standard of his Luke Hapburn had been pitched too high and that he would not be able to keep it up.
VTow I know differently. Torrence can keep up his brilliant character studies till further orders For Torrence is a great actor. One of the seven deadly sins of directors is that once they find that a man can play a certain type of part well, they never again, if they can help it, let him play any other.
We shall never know how many real artists have had their careers destroyed because of this. The crucial moment in Torrence's life came when he realised the sort of part he had been cast for in Broken Chains, a film that
I believe in Ernest Torrence. I believe that he is one of the greatest dramatic actors the screen has ever produced.
I believe that success will never turn his head.
I believe in the power and originality and enthusiasm that he brings to every part he undertakes.
I believe that he has made a great many other " heavies " in Hollywood look sick.
I believe that to limit his powers to villains is like chaining down the North Wind.
O, yes, I believe in Ernest Torrence.
But then I .have always believed in
him, even before people suddenly awoke
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