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Four Who Came Back On 'Playhouse Of (Former) Stars’ In a neat bit of delayed-action type casting, Schlitz Playhouse of Stars has come up with a cast which, 40 years ago, would have carried a price tag designed to put the show out of busi¬ ness, A drama titled “The Secret” co-stars Francis X. Bushman, Madge Kennedy, Doris Kenyon and Tom Moore. Tom Drake represents the younger generation, playing a reporter seeking the truth behind a silent film star’s suicide—40 years ago. Powerhouses among the silent movie stars, Bushman, Kennedy, Kenyon and Moore are delighted to be remem¬ bered, and excited at being a part of a medium unknown in their heyday. “At my age,” Bushman, now 70, notes wryly, “I’m just happy to be alive. But I’ll have you know I was the Liberace of my day.” The screen’s first great lover, Bushman made 424 pictures, the most famous of which was “Ben Hur.” Madge Kennedy, at one time known as “Queen of the Bedroom Farce,” is still pert and vivacious. “I feel like Rip Van Winkle,” she says. After a quarter-century, she came back two years ago to play in “The Marrying Kind” with Judy Holliday. She has appeared twice oh TV as Joan Caul¬ field’s mother in My Favorite Hus¬ band, once on Lux Video Theater. Tom Moore, who played opposite Miss Kennedy in 1918 and 1919, has Recognize them? They're Madge Kennedy and Tom Moore as they appear on TV today. Next page shows them at peak of movie career. appeared recently on Wild Bill Hickok, Racket Squad and Life . With Father, but made his biggest hit as the surprise subject on This Is Your Life. A star in 1910, he appeared in “Cin¬ derella Man” with Mae Marsh, and in dozens of other epics. “In those days,” 10