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Just Viola Dana
a little ruler she used to tap my ankles with.
"Parlor entertainments were my first professional ventures, and I guess I made a success of these, for I at once developed a desire to go on the stage. This I managed to do, after the trips to the managers' officers, plus the heartaches which every beginner knows so
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Viola Dana as her family knows her.
well. My first engagement was as a child with Dorothy Donnelly's 'When We Dead Awake' company. This was followed by three seasons in 'Rip Van Winkle,' with Thomas Jefferson, and a year and a half with Whliam Faversham, in 'The Squaw Man.' After that came a long training with the Union Hill Stock Company, in New York City. I returned to straight
drama again with Dustin Farnum, in 'The Littlest Rebel,' and later played with WTilliam Courtleigh for some time. A short and rather disastrous engagement in The Model' company followed, but it is to this play that I owe my chance to play in The Poor Little Rich Girl,' which, by the way, I liked better than any of my other stage vehicles. The author of the latter saw me in the other play, and very kindly suggested me to the man who was to produce The play as being the ideal type for the leading character."
I waited for her to say more about "The Poor Little Rich Girl," but she didn't. I guess there isn't much need for my writing much about it, either, for all theatergoers remember how she was hailed a s "Broadway's youngest star," and how she lived up to the prediction of the critics that she would be an unqualified success in the role of the little girl who had riches, but lacked happiness.
"After I had outshe went on, "I found myself with a week or so on my hands before another role would be ready for me. I had an idea that I would like motion-picture work, and talked the matter over with my mother — who is my confidante and pal — and we decided it would be worth trying, anyway. I applied at the Edison studio, and didn't try to make any impression with my
grown the part,'