Ethel Clayton — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1913) 🇺🇸

Ethel Clayton is Lubin’s eastern leading lady and piles her glorious Billy Burke [Billie Burke] type of hair high on her head and, in regal dinner-gown and evening wrap, sweeps from her mansion to her carriage; or maybe she isn’t supposed to ever have seen a dinner-gown, in which case she puts her lovely hair into a pathetic knot at the back of her head, a cold-looking shawl about her gingham shoulders and goes forth to the corner grocery for five cents’ worth of something to eat for the whole family.

But in any case, she is Ethel Clayton and everybody likes her.

She was born in Champaign, Ill., grew up in the back-woods of Missouri, was later sent to a convent school in Chicago and from there stepped into a dramatic career.

At 18, she headed a stock company in Minneapolis and now, at 21, is credited with many stage and film honors and the ability to run her own car.

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Collection: Motography Magazine, November 1913