Edward Everett Horton — Playing Safe With Fame (1925) 🇺🇸

When the residents of Hollywood want good time at the theater they generally go down town to see Edward Everett Horton.

His name spells a sure-fire comedy hit, and for four or five years now he has been the star actor in a stock company in Los Angeles. He is perhaps just as popularly known to his select group of admirers as is Harold Lloyd to his larger army of film fans. But it doesn’t make him happy.

Horton has long held ambition for success in pictures. He would give up the footlights for the flickers if he could be sure of a permanent screen career.

So far, though, he has been able only to fulfill his hopes spasmodically. His two or three appearances have hardly established him, despite that his work in James Cruze’s “To the Ladies” was highly rated.

Horton tried one or two other rôles, but not much came of them, so he returned to the stage.

Lately James Cruze hired him again, and he has been doing the lead in “Beggar on Horseback.” The production is scheduled to be the most pretentious that Cruze has directed since “The Covered Wagon,” and as it was a comedy rôle to which Horton was assigned, the odds, based on his stage record, should be better than fifty-fifty that it will be good.

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Photo by: Walter Fredrick Seely (1886–1959)

Collection: Picture Play Magazine, April 1925