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Gladys McConnell.
The Rocky Road to Fame
Marion Morgan.
GLADYS McCONNELL almost broke her neck getting into the movies. Others have done the same, but the threatened fracture in Gladys' case was more than usually realistic.
Miss McConnell is a little girl with Irish-blue eyes and chestnut-brown hair, whom the Fox organization is grooming for big things. She has been under contract to that company for about a year, playing in short-reel comedies and in O. Henry stories. She also had a good part in "A Trip to Chinatown," the film adapted from the old stage farce. Recently, she played in "Pigs," that novel comedy feature, also adapted from a stage play.
When Gladys set out to go into the movies, it was with the idea of getting a job m Westerns. She really knows horses and horseback -riding as very few girls do in this generation of motor travel.
On her first visit to a casting director's office — at Universal City, several years ago — she eagerly set forth her qualifications, but without making any impression. She had to go back several times before she obtained a job.
Gladys had been schooled to ride in an English saddle, but the horses at Universal were all California horses, with "rocking-chair" saddles.
The cowboys on the Universal lot thought that they would break the "new girl" in right, so didn't tell her the peculiarities of the Western saddle. She climbed onto a horse, and for the first five minutes, she swayed hither and yon, and was several times almost bounced off. But after the first initiation, she made good with a flourish, and now numbers those cowboys among her very particular admirers.
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A Priestess of the Dance.
Vaudeville patrons will have absolutely no difficulty in recognizing the name of Marion Morgan. Her dance acts have long been famous in the two-a-day. And her colorful presentations, such as "Attila and the Huns," have attracted much attention.
Now Miss Morgan has decided to give her efforts for a while to pictures. She sees a great field for the dance on the screen. She has opened a studio on the edge of the film colony, and has already created dance interludes and episodes for "Don Juan," "Paris at Midnight." "Fifth Avenue," and "Daybreak."
One thing about Miss Morgan's creations is that she does not attempt to crowd the screen with her dance figures. She seeks to achieve a definite composition or arrangement, using only a few dancers, with here and there a sensational athletic leap or pirouette.
It may be mentioned, incidentally, that it was she who brought Ramon Novarro to pictures — this during the filming" of the late Allan Holubar's "Man, Woman, Marriage." He danced in an interlude that she arranged for that feature.
A Judge's Son Turned Cowboy.
The heart of more than one girl has given an extra beat, during the past few months, whenever a certain young man stepped onto the set. Frank Q. Cooper by name — "Gary" Cooper, they call him — he is the son of a former justice of the Montana supreme court, and only recently made his advent on the screen.
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Frank Q. Cooper