Adelaide Lawrence — The Screen Children’s Gallery (1914) 🇺🇸

Interviewed Adelaide Lawrence, aged seven, in the Kalem studio. Adelaide was chaperoned but not coached by both her father and mother, indeed, much of the biographical data were gathered from Adelaide while she was seated on her mother’s knee.

by W. Stephen Bush

Around the Kalem studio little Adelaide is not a bit less popular than she is with her thousands of screen admirers. The reason is simple. The little girl, though very evidently possessed of good gifts, is quite modest and goes about her business in a most winning old-fashioned manner. As a desirable specimen of the child of the screen little Adelaide ranks high.

The young lady expressed a decided preference for comic parts, a most unusual thing in an artist of tender years. As a rule, girls of that age want to play Juliet or Lucia of Lammermoor or Lady Macbeth. Stranger still Adelaide has acted in many of the famous companies but is now likely to remain a good while with the Kalems, where her father is a successful director [Edmund Lawrence]. She has made a decided hit in such pictures as “The Highborn Child and the Beggar,” “The Influence of a Child,” “The Haunted House.” Adelaide is quick to perceive all the possibilities of her part at once. Once she gets before the camera she is absorbed by her task and needs no more than a nod from her father.

“I am, of course, recognized by a good many people when I travel around the city,” said little Adelaide, “and everybody is so nice to me. Offer people will stop me and speak to me, calling me by the name under which I happened to appear in some popular picture.”

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Miss Lawrence in Action.

Collection: Moving Picture World, February 1914