Picture Show (May-Oct 1920)

Picture Show, July \7lh, 1920. 19 THE STAR OF THE NETHERLANDS. ADELQUI MIGLIAR, the star of the AngloHollandia Film Company, is not only a wonderful artiste, but ho is also a man of brilliant, attainments in many spheres. Horn some thirty years ago in Coneepcion, Chili, of a Chilean father and an Italian mother, his early youth was spent as a cowboy on his father's farm. But the boy who tended the cows so assiduously at the same time as keenly read of the famous authors of the world and a wider horizon than the boundaries of the Chilean farm loomed before him. At sixteen he left the place of his birth to spend three happy years in Italy, studying literature, and although he then returned to Chile, he felt that he could never go back to the old life for good. So it was that a very little later he set his foot on the first rung of the ladder that was to lead him to ultimate fame. A stage tour through Central America and California was his first theatrical experience, and in 1910, when America was just beginning to go ahead with motion pictures, Adelqui made his screen debut. Keeping Pace With Filmland. " rT"'HOSE were amusing days," he says. " It was the time of the experimental stage of the movies, and we artists were often experimented upon with droll results — for the onlooker. I was then playing the types of roles that Hart and Fairbanks have since made famous. " As the film industry advanced, however, I realised that I would get left behind if I did not keep pace with its evolution, so I went into train ing for every conceivable kind of sport — for swimming, diving, driving, and riding was the next popular phase of tho film world, and the chief qualification for the hero then was to do all these things rather than to be able to act." But the artistic side of Adelqui Migliar rebelled against these parts, and he returned to Italy where he acted in many of the Gloria and Pasquali productions. At present he is working on a number of films for the Anglo-Hollandia Film Company, in which he plays male lead. Perhaps you have seen his wonderful performance in " John Heriot's Wife " or " Carmen of the North " ? If not, you will have the opportunity of seeing him soon in " As God Made Her." ADELQUI MIGLIAR in " As God Made Her." | FILM FUN b KDnnnnnnnannainnnnDnnnnnDnK Her New Love. Marie : " Kitty, the comedy queen, hasn't a thought for anything nowadays except her now car. She's absolutely in love with it." Cyril (coldly) : " Another case of man being roplaccd by machinery." She Knew His Love. THE leading man and the leading lady had been quarrelling, and although hubby was willing to take all the blame on himself and smooth matters over peaceably, sho was still snippy and indifferent. "Come over here, Jessie. Aren't you curious to know what is in this package ? " " Oh, not very. I can stand the strain," she said. " Well, it's something for the one I love best in all the world," he said coaxingly, trying to win a smile. " Oli, is that so ? she snapped. "I suppose, then, it's that new tie you said you needed." — -t-f — Success. SO the press agent was on top of Mont Blanc ? " " Not at all ! " " But he said so." " True. Two months ago when he returned from his holidays, he said he had been at tho foot of Mont Blanc. Since then he has gradually lied himself to the top." A Wise Parent. YOUR father does not withhold his consent to our marriage because I am only a small part man, I hope ? " The Girl : Oh, no. He says he'll give his consent as soon as you get your salary raised." ■ ■ — — He Surrendered. A COUPLE," said Simpkins, " got married a few days ago, after a courtship which had lasted fifty years." " I suppose," replied tho studio jester, " the poor old man had become too feeble to hold out any longer." His Want. I DON'T know what I want to eat to-day. I'd like a little of everything." " Very well, sir," replied the waiter, " the hash will be ready in a few minutes." Fishy. LARRY SEMON, the Vitagraph comedy star, has gone into the mountains of California to have a fishing holiday. Besides fishing for fish, it is said that Larry intends to fish for comedy ideas. The Shark. Mr. Movie : " Why, my dear, I thought you said there was no excitement to be had in this dull place ? I've just had an extraordinary encounter with a shark ! " "Mns. Movie : " Good gracious, Harold ! Where ? " Mr. Movie : " At our hotel, dear. I've been settling up with the proprietor." • ADELQUI MIGLIAR is a man of charactei who can portray the deeper emotions because he has delved beneath the surface of things and is a student of life in all its phases. All Alike. Barber : " Want a haircut, sir ? " Film Star : " I don't want any partiality. 1 want 'em all cut." His Excuse. " Before you were married, you said you'd lay down your life for me ? " sobbed the dainty star. 1 .. . , ' ' . . .„ . t " I know it," he said solemnly. " but this confounded fiat is so tiny there's no place to lay anything clown." Plain Enough. The Star : " But you don't seem to grasp my meaning. I'll try and make myself a little more plain." Her Jealous Rival : " Don't do anything rash, dear. One is foolish to interfere with the work of nature."