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1 88 When the Movies were Young
thin man in The Tenderfoot'?" "Who played the little girl in the Colonial dress and curls who danced the minuet in the rose garden at midnight in 'Wilful Peggy' ?" "Who was the handsome Indian who did the corn dance on the mountain top in The Indian Runner's Romance'?"
Other picture concerns than Biograph had not as yet made the actor's name public. But they did give him his mail when addressed with sufficient clarity. Arthur Mackley, the famous Sheriff of Essanay, was receiving, those days, ten letters a day. They came addressed.
The Sheriff Essanay Company Chicago
Some boy, the Sheriff, getting ten letters a day !
It remained for English exhibitors first to name the Biograph players. For Biograph, long after all the other picture companies had made the actor's name public, still refused to come out into the open. Over in London the fans were appeased with fictitious names for their favorites. Beautiful names they were, so hero-ish and so villain-ish, so reminiscent of the old-time, sentimental, maiden-lady author. I recall but one and a half names of our players. Dell Henderson was given the beautiful soubriquet of "Arthur Donaldson" and Blanche Sweet became "Daphne " something or other.
But the yearning American youths and maidens continued to receive the cold, stereotyped reply, "Biograph gives no names." The Biograph was not thinking as quickly as some of its players.
Our friends from Cuddebackville, the Goddefroys, being in New York one time this summer, Mr. Griffith thought