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Acquiring Actors and Style hi
underlying strength made for good screen technique. Early June was the time of his first release, "The Message," in which picture as David Williams he portrayed the honest, big-hearted farmer. Mr. Kirkwood, the diamond-in-therough type, was honest and big-hearted through all his movie career. He was the heroic Indian, as in "Comata, the Sioux"; the brave fisherman as in "Lines of White on a Sullen Sea" — the latter one of Stanner E. V. Taylor's early classic efforts which was taken in the little fishing village of Galilee in October, 1909.
Harriet Quimby, now established as a journalist, came down to visit. Thought it would be good fun to act in a scene, so she played a village fishermaiden and thus qualified as a picture actress for her other more thrilling performance two years later. I was with her that time, on the flying field at Dover, where Bleriot had landed on the very first Channel crossing, and where she was to "take off" for France. Gaumont took a five-hundred-foot picture of the flight, titling it "The English Channel Flown by a Lady Aviator for the First Time."
The day Harriet Quimby flew the English Channel brought sad news to the world, for that appalling disaster — the sinking of the Titanic — occurred. It also brought a personal sadness to the Biograph, for Mr. Marvin's youngest son, who was returning from his honeymoon, was lost. Before the happy couple had sailed, a moving picture of the wedding had been taken in the studio.
It was not long after his initiation that Mr. Kirkwood brought a fellow Lamb, Mr. Walthall, to the studio. He had been one of the three "bad men" with Mr. Kirkwood in "The Great Divide," which play had just finished its New York run.