Edythe Sterling (1915) 🇺🇸

Probably no other actress in motion pictures has undertaken as many real risks as Edythe Sterling, leading woman of the Premier Company, at Santa Paula, California.

Only recently, in The Hello Girl of Angel Camp she was placed on a railroad track with a speeding passenger train bearing down on her, and was pulled from her perilous position only a second before the engine whizzed past. The engineer of the train, who had not been notified of the occasion, was completely unnerved, and was obliged to stop and recuperate before going on. In reviewing this picture one critic writes that “the effect of anxiety that the train sweeping on toward the wounded girl lying across the track creates is almost terrifying.” Quoting from The World: “A Premier offering dealing with Western life and one that holds us in suspense with terror and horror.”

Edythe Sterling was born in Kansas City, Mo., in 1894. The footlights beckoned to her at an early age, and after three successful seasons with Weber and Rush, and a season with A Knight for a Day, with Mabel Hite, Miss Sterling joined the St. Louis Motion Picture Company, and has been with that concern ever since, now appearing in their “Premier” brand of Warners Features. As a leading woman of Western dramas Miss Sterling has no peer. She is a daring rider, and is widely known throughout the Pacific States, where in numerous rodeos she has captured many championships in riding and racing, and is one of the few women who have ever dared to indulge in that dangerous pastime known as “bulldogging” a steer.

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Her Triumph

Gaby Deslys in a Four-Part Famous Players Subject Shows That She Can Act as Well as Dance.

Reviewed by George Blaisdell

Gaby Deslys in Her Triumph, the four-part release of the Famous Players for February 8, shows that she can portray emotion as well as motion. The story is an original one of the theater, and was written especially for the charming dancer who in it has the lead. The production was made in France with French players in the supporting cast. The atmosphere of the playhouse is finely maintained throughout.

Her Triumph primarily exploits the wonderful dancing of Deslys. There are other elements of interest, however — among them that of melodrama. The story is of a humble understudy in love with the leading comedian. Jealousy on the part of the leading woman impels her to demand the dismissal of the girl she conceives to be her rival. The manager refuses, the understudy goes on. Later the former leading woman conspires with her lover to abduct her successor. Gaby is rescued by the leading man.

The dancing of the star and her partner, Harry Pilcer, makes rare entertainment. Mr. Pilcer has the role opposite Gaby — which is the name given to the character — but his work is more that of the dancer than the actor. His movements at times lack repose; he seems to step to music, but this is minor. He does unusually well for a dancing partner. Deslys, whether dancing or portraying a dramatic role, is charming.

We have not been given the names of the excellent players supporting the two. There is the young woman who plays the blind sister of Gaby; and there are the leading woman and her gambling lover. Her Triumph will make good entertainment.

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Holbrook Blinn to Appear in The Boss

When Holbrook Blinn makes his debut before the camera in a William A. Brady photoplay based on the Edward Sheldon play, The Boss, he will have the most expert assistance possible. Alice Brady will appear opposite him, playing the part created by Emily Stevens; the director will be Frederick Thomson, whose experience in making features for the Vitagraph Co., the Lasky and the Famous Players has made his name famous. Mr. Thomson had won a high place on the stage before turning his attention to the screen world. When Trilby was sent on tour, it was he who produced and rehearsed the various organizations. For years he was associated with Sol Smith Russell, and understudied that star’s part with David Belasco. He worked several seasons, and those who saw his performance of “Zakkuri,” the war minister, in The Darling of the Gods have not forgotten the impression that his characterization made.

Ulric Collins, the original David in the production of Way Down East, has been secured by Mr. Thomson as his assistant. Mr. Collins has been associated for years with the various Brady enterprises, and has appeared in several screen productions as well.

The Holbrook Blinn photoplay will be released through the World Film Corporation in April, and it will be one of the most elaborate ever turned out by the William A. Brady Photoplays, Inc.

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Picture Actress Marries Banker

Hope Latimer, a former picture actress, who in recent months has been in charge of the bookkeeping department with the Buffalo office of the United Film Service, has been married to Arthur Jenkins Gordon, receiving teller of the Syracuse Trust Company of Syracuse. Miss Latimer is a New York girl and has many friends who are connected with the motion picture industry. She made the acquaintance of Mr. Gordon in Syracuse while depositing cash at the Gordon bank for the Syracuse office of the United Film Service, and while the awkward altitude of a teller’s window is hardly conducive to intimate conversation, a feeling of friendship was cemented nevertheless.

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Rare Settings in Chinese Play

Edison Director John H. Collins, with his customary insistence on detail, has put some of his best work on The Mission of Mr. Foo, a story of the struggle between the old China and the new Republic, with an underground setting. In order to secure real Chinese curios and antiques, Mr. Collins has been holding back the production for six months. Chinese curio shops were searched and the Edison Japanese actor, T. Tamamato, was enlisted in the campaign for real “atmosphere.”

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Reception to Clara Kimball Young

Clara Kimball Young was tendered a reception at the Lee Avenue theater, Brooklyn, recently.

At 8:45 o’clock, Miss Young was introduced to the audience by William H. Kemble, president and general manager of the Lee Avenue theater. The audience, of 2,800 patrons of Brooklyn, welcomed Miss Young with applause. When Miss Young had concluded her remarks, the ushers were kept busy presenting her with flowers, until it was necessary for Manager Kemble to assist in receiving them in her behalf.

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Edythe Sterling

Scene from Her Triumph (Famous Players)

Collection: Moving Picture World, February 1915