Gareth Hughes — Blue Book of the Screen (1923) 🇺🇸

When Gareth Hughes was twenty-one years old, he had played nearly every juvenile role in Shakespeare’s plays.

He was born in Llanelly, Wales, in 1897, and educated in the public schools there.

He went to London at the age of thirteen with the intention of going on the stage. While there he went to a boy’s academy for a year to learn the English language.

It was then he became a student of Shakespeare, learning practically all of the lines of every Shakespearian play. He has played nearly all of them while traveling through England with a small company.

His greatest ambition is to return to Wales and play Hamlet in the Welsh tongue. He is interested in the advancement of Welsh literature and folklore — as are so many people who don’t have to live there.

After his schooling in London he joined a small road company, playing in Shakespearian roles.

In one night, he played the part of the King, the Ghost and the grave digger in Hamlet. He also helped the stage manager. For this versatile performance he was given the great salary of $3 a week.

At the age of seventeen he was stage manager of the Haymarket Theatre in London, playing a minor part in the play then on, called Change.

In The Joneses, at the Strand Theatre, London, he played the part of an old man of eighty when he was but fifteen years old.

Hughes then came to the United States with the Welsh Players. Later he joined the Ben Greet Players in The Taming of the Shrew, after which he played Benjamin in Joseph and His Brothers with the late James O’Neill. Many other engagements followed.

Hughes’ film career started when he played a part with Clara Kimball Young in “The Eyes of Youth.” Then he played opposite Marguerite Clark in “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch.”

His first feature picture was with Famous players, titled “Sentimental Tommy.” Other prominent films followed in which Hughes played featured roles. Among those were “The Hunch,” “Garments of Truth,” “Little Eva Ascends,” “Don’t Write Letters,” “I Can Explain” and Forget-Me-Not.

Gareth has brown hair and blue eyes, stands five feet five inches in height and weighs 115 pounds.

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Gareth Hughes takes to the foothills of Hollywood with his horse and dog when not at the studio.

Collection: The Blue Book of the Screen (1923)