When the movies were young (1925)

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CHAPTER VI MOVIE ACTING DAYS AND AN "if" \I^E called him "Old Man McCutcheon," the genial, generous person who at this time directed the movies at the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. Why "Old Man" I do not know, unless it was because he was slightly portly and the father of about eight children, the oldest being Wallace — "Wally" to his intimates. Wally was quite "some pumpkins" around the studio — father's right-hand-man — and then, too, he was a Broadway actor. It was then the general idea of movie directors to use their families in the pictures. As money was the only thing to be had out of the movies those days, why not get as much as possible while the getting was good? The McCutcheon kids had just finished working in a Christmas picture, receiving, besides pay checks, the tree and the toys when the picture was finished. So the first bit of gossip wafted about was that the McCutcheons had a pretty good thing of it altogether. In February, 1908, Wallace McCutcheon was closing an engagement in Augustus Thomas's play, "The Ranger." Appearing in "The Ranger" with young Mr. McCutcheon, were Robert Vignola, John Adolfi, Eddie Dillon, and Florence Auer. A school picture called "The Snow-man" was to be made which called for eight children — another job for the little 37