Louise Bates Now “Falstaff Girl” (1915) 🇺🇸
There is wailing and gnashing of teeth along Broadway, in the vicinity of the white lights, also several managers are cursing at moving pictures for their inroads on the ranks of talent — for Louise Emerald Bates has forsaken Broadway and gone forty-five minutes thence, to Thanhouser’s at New Rochelle.
Miss Bates has accepted an engagement to become Edwin Thanhouser’s “Falstaff Girl,” in which Riley Chamberlin, Arthur Cunningham, Claude Cooper and Frances Keyes are now cavorting.
Louise Bates has for the past few years been one of the most magnetic figures in musical comedy. She was the prima donna in The Passing Show and played the lead with Julian Eltinge in The Fascinating Widow.
She is a blonde beauty with one of those spontaneous personalities that looks as if it is going to break out any second. She is blessed with the kind of a figure that Ziegfeld [Florenz Ziegfeld] catches audiences with, and a smile that continually plays tag all over her facial features. Blanche Ring’s famous smile is surpassed by fifty per cent, of lusciousness.
By featuring her in Falstaff comedies Mr. Thanhouser will set a precedent, for Miss Bates is peculiarly fitted, naturally and by training, to introduce a style of work as yet unknown in pictures.
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Collection: Moving Picture World, October 1915
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