Mary Charleson — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1913) 🇺🇸

Mary Charleson, of the western Vitagraph company, thinks she ought to be tall and sinewy and graceful.

In her dreams she is; other times she is just Mary Charleson, and that means being tiny and athletic, and piquant and charming, and more graceful than any tall girl Mary knows. Decidedly, Mary should not worry about not being tall. The stretching, walking, running, climbing, swimming, riding, rowing and bowling exercises she. takes, while they do not add to her height, do add to her ability and the truth of the statement, that “Mary Charleson can do ‘most anything.” She makes a fascinating senorita, a typical Indian maid, an ideal western “gal,” a popular society girl, and it is as these Characters she is best known to screen admirers

Besides that, she plays boy roles and becomes a rags-and-tatters urchin or a perfectly respectable young man, with equal ease. The people like Mary just as she is.

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Collection: Motography Magazine, April 1913