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Somewhat Digressive 237
motion picture world was Mr. Tucker's early death; for that truly great picture, "The Miracle Man," his tribute to the world's motion picture library de luxe, promised a career of great brilliance.
Mr. Tucker had come rightfully by his great talent, for his mother, Ethel Tucker, was an actress of note and a clever stage director also. As leading woman in stock repertoire at Lathrop's Grand Dime Theatre of Boston, she had a tremendous popularity in her time. And long years afterward, she too went into "the pictures,, in Hollywood, for a very brief period.
Mr. Tucker's "Miracle Man" brought stardom to its three leading players, Lon Chaney, Betty Compson, and Tommy Meighan.
Tommy Meighan's leap to fame was surprising to both friends and family. For Tommy had been considered, not exactly the black sheep of the family, but rather the ne'erdo-well. During the run of "Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford," both being members of the cast, Frances Ring, sister to the lustrous Blanche of "Rings on My Fingers" and "In the Good Old Summertime" fame, had married Mr. Meighan, Tommy becoming through this matrimonial alliance the least important member of the Ring family of three clever sisters, Blanche, Frances, and Julie. An obscure little Irishman, Tommy trailed along, with a voice that might not have taken him so very far on the dramatic stage.
Like weaving in and out the paper strips of our kindergarten mats is the story of the Ring sisters and Tommy. For Los Angeles beckoned, with Blanche headlined at the Orpheum, Frances in stock, and Tommy playing somewhere or other.
Blanche and her husband, Charles Winninger, a member