Claire Ray — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1914) 🇺🇸
Claire Ray’s work before the Pathé camera is proof of her love of horse-back riding, her knowledge of acting, and her special ability as a dancer. For it was through her dancing that Miss Ray gained a position on the stage and later in pictures.
In Canton, Ohio, where she was born, she was a very young pupil in the art and when her talent in this direction was recognized, she continued her instruction under the direction of a Cleveland professor, who had trained many persons for the stage.
To appear behind the foot-lights was the ambition of the young dancer and her first professional engagement was with the Man of Honor company.
The J. Rufus Wallingford production with Blanch Ring, offered Miss Ray her next engagement and after a year in this production, she became a member of a stock company at Rochester, N. Y.
It was but recently she graduated from stock into pictures and the Pathé company.
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Collection: Motography Magazine, January 1914