Chester Barnett — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1913) 🇺🇸
Chester Barnett is a fit partner for Pearl White and rollicks through thousands of feet of ribbon-like film straight into the fancy of Crystal film viewers.
Such rollicking, however, is a new and recent departure for the good-looking Chester; for oft, and but recently, has he played the Shakesperian Bassanio, Laertes, Orsino and others of like generation for Ben Greet audiences.
And before that the wavy-haired Chester appeared opposite Frances Starr in The Rose of the Rancho. It was then that he became the “cynosure of admiring eyes,” but as Mr. Barnett had always been admired, more or less (mostly more), the fact of his becoming a matinee idol affected him not any.
After considerable experience with the Ben Greet Company, he essayed the role of Pedro, the musician, in The Climax, which ran for two years in New York. Then his photo-play career began in Crystal pictures.
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Collection: Motography Magazine, June 1913