Madeline Traverse (1916) 🇺🇸

In Madeline Traverse the World Film Corporation has a star acknowledged to be one of the most important women players in the film world. Miss Traverse comes by her success naturally, being the descendant of an old theatrical family. Her father was Richard W. Trellegan, one time proprietor of the Boston Museum and of many important stock companies playing throughout the United States. Miss Traverse had her first experience under her father’s direction. Being always a large child for her age, she was playing important ingénue parts at twelve, and at fifteen was intrusted with the leads in all the old standard stock plays produced by her father’s company.

After her father’s death she traveled all over Europe studying music, fencing, dancing and spending much of her time on horseback. On her return to this country she resumed her theatrical career with Rose Stahl in The Chorus Lady, both in New York and en tour to the Coast and to London. She then played in Joseph and His Brethren, understudying Pauline Fredericks, and playing her role on numerous occasions. With Cohan and Harris she played the adventuress in Seven Keys to Baldpate throughout the Chicago run of the piece, and afterwards in New York.

Her picture career has been varied and important. She began with the Reliance Company, appearing in such pictures as The Other Woman, “For the Love of a Man,” “The Flower Girl” and Leah Kleschna. She came under contract with the World Film Corporation, to support Robert Warwick in the picturization of the novel, The Ambition of Mark Truitt, after which she is to be seen in numerous striking portrayals.

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Collection: Moving Picture World, January 1916

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see also

• Adrien Avare, Colorist (1916)
• Thomas H. Persons (1916)