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for July 1931
55
Veterans
By
Alma Whitaker
Emily Fitzroy, below, is another famous veteran of stage and screen. Her first film was "The Lightning Conductor."
torious veterans had long stage experience. I wish we could picture every one of them for you — but here are only a few !
Florence Oberle, for instance — playing a very wet comedy role for Pathe in which she has to get soaked through and through — but for years she played Shakespeare and the higher drama, and comedy roles galore in Los Angeles theatres, with her husband. Then Essanay saw her in Chicago and hired her for three years. She has divided her time between stage and screen ever since, and raised three children as well.
Florence Roberts began with Mack Sennett, after Alack had seen her in "Your Uncle Dudley" on the stage. That was in "Grandma's Girl.'' Now she's doing talkies right along — adores playing funny grandmas. She's working in "Too Many Cooks" with Bert Wheeler.
Cissie Loftus was born in 1876 but she's just started a new picture career, after many, many years on the
Bodil Rosing, in circle at left, plays the other mother role in "An American Tragedy." She's Monte Blue's mother-in-law!
stage. Cissie is English. She's an inimitable mimic. Tried movies in 1912 without success. Now Fox has her under contract and fondly hopes she will compete with her old friend Marie Dressier.
That's one thing Marie has done — all the studios want to mid Marie Dresslers now. and it's a great time for the old girls.
So watch R. K. O. boost Edna Mae Oliver after her work in "Cimarron." She's a scream. They popped her into "Board and Room" right away and raised her salary because of that sumptuous sniff. Edna played Aunt Martha Hawks in "Showboat" for three years, prior to the screen break in "Cimarron." Other comediennes whose stock rises rapidly now are Allison Skipworth, whose dowager part in "Outward Bound" brought "Raffles," "The Circle." "Du Barry" and "The Virtuous Husband" roles in quick succession. Ethel Wales, from silent days, who shines now in "The Criminal Code," "Subway Express," "Tom Sawyer" and half a dozen other talkies. Tempe Pigott, whose talkie success began with "Seven Days' Leave," in which she was hilarious as a cockney slum gossip. Maude Truax, who began with the old Biograph, in New York, and just accidentally walked into a role with Christie in Hollywood after 26 years on the stage, and found talkies most hospitable. She is now working in "Daybreak" for Metro. (Continued on page 107)