When the movies were young (1925)

Getting On 137 in a picture. He made his debut with Mrs. Tom Ince, and his little heart was quite broken when he discovered his only scene had been cut out. Miss Harris's first stage appearance had been with Benjamin Chapin playing Mrs. Lincoln in "Lincoln at the White House/' afterwards called "Honest Abe." Her first part in the movies was in DeMaupassant's "The Necklace," in which Rose King played the lead. Miss Harris had learned of the Biograph through a girl who jobbed at the studio, Helen Ormsby, the daughter of a Brooklyn newspaper man. Mabel Trunelle had a rather crowded hour at the Biograph. She had had considerable experience at the Edison studio and was well equipped in movie technique. She had come on recommendation of her husband, Herbert Pryor, and she succeeded, even though a wife — which was unusual, for wives of the good actors were not popular around the studio. If an actor wanted to keep on the right side of the director, he left his wife at home ; that meant a sacrifice often enough, for there were times without number when women were needed and a wife could have been used and the five dollars kept in the family, but the majority preferred not to risk it. Dell Henderson and George Nichols succeeded quite well with this "wife" business, but they seem to have been the only ones besides Mr. Pryor. Florence Barker, a good trouper who had had stock experience in Los Angeles, her home town, now happened along to enjoy popularity, and to become Frank Po well's leading woman. Through her Eleanor Kershaw, sister to Willette, and wife to the late Thomas H. Ince, happened to come to the Biograph. Quite the most pathetic figure at the studio was Eleanor