Screenland (Oct 1923-Mar 1924)

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H; The story of the screen child who wasn't allowed to grow up — until a murder lifted her from stunted youth to dazed womanhood. "She isn't twenty-one — she's thirty," growls Father, "I'm her dad and I ought to know." The story begins almost twenty years ago when Dustin Farnum appeared in a vaudeville act called The Littlest Rebel. Among those present in the cast was little Juliet Shelby, a blonde, curly-headed roseleaf child with a watchful Ma who collected her salary. A Typical Stage Child I he looked cute and she could act a little — after the fashion of small children and trained dogs. She was the pet of the company and the delight of the audiences. Like many stage children, she was educated on the run. 'The Littlest Rebel" dMary Miles Winter is talking now in terms of a scenar'o — with its hokum I o ve and melodrama. fLMary Miles Minter, according to her. father, is thirty. She tried to make the step from rose and gold doll roles after the Taylor murder case had startled the public and she even tried something of the vamp character. But she slipped from the screen. The Days of unr J[ he Littlest Rebel" was made into a full length play and Juliet Shelby went on the stage with it. She was a big factor in its success. Along about that time, the movies were offering easy money to blonde children who could smile pretty at the camera. Several years before another little girl named Mary Pickford had left the stage and walked into a fortune in the studios. Mary Pickford, too, had a watchful Ma. In those days, a Mary Pickford was a type that could be created by an ambitious mother with peroxide and a curling iron. There was big money in it. Mary's First Picture ne of Mary Pickford's first managers was Daniel Frohman. Daniel had a brother named Gus who was a movie manager. It was a coincidence that Juliet Shelby, outfitted with the triple-barrelled name of Mary Miles Minter, should make her movie debut under the management of Gus, the least famous of the Frohman family. The name of the picture was The Fairy and the Waif. The new Mary had a glittering and golden personality. She looked like a child out of a story book come to life. Her face had everything to be found in the face of the other Mary except character. Among the players in The Fairy and the Waif was a young actress just back from a road tour named June Mathis. Because she had nothing to recommend her except brains Miss Mathis played a small part. The little girl of The Fairy and the Waif made a great hit. The young Mary knew that the days of running around to agents' offices to look for work were