Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1916)

From Home to Work with Virginia Pearson 283 1 1 1 i ii mi «■<*■' The lambs at the studio and Miss Pearson great friends: expect after seeing her work on the screen. Little touches like this wi show you the true character of a person. Reluctantly she left the animals and we walked to the studio entrance. "I am so glad to have seen you," she said, and smiled sweetly. ''Come again, won't you?" And with these words, we parted. On my way back, I thought over all I had seen, and of the wonders of this lady of the films. Miss Pearson is endowed with a wonderful figure and glowing complexion. It is her proud boast that she requires little make-up when before the camera, and no makeup at all when off the stage. She is violently opposed to rouges and the makeshift coloring and beauty trickeries which doubtless contributed to the picture Rudyard Kipling had in mind when he described his "rag, a bone, and a hank of hair." Personally, Miss Pearson is far removed from the vampire type of woman. She is very different, too, both on the surface and underneath, from most other actresses. During the day she lives a life that is not her own, and her evenings at home are so entirely different, that were one of her screen admirers to drop in unexpectedly, and find her as she naturally lives, it would be a hard matter to convince him that the Virginia Pearson known to the film world and the woman as she is in private life is the same person. She is another example that those who play repulsive roles on the screen are often among the quietest and most pleasing people whom one could meet, entirely different from the screen character.