Mary Maurice — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1913) 🇺🇸
Mary Maurice (accent on the last syllable) has been working in Vitagraph pictures for more than two years; before that she had been on the stage “for a long time,” as she expressed it.
While she likes picture work very, very much, there are times when she longs for the sound of her own voice and the inspiration of, an audience.
“But picture making is so interesting and it’s nice work for the close of my life,” said Mrs. Maurice as she arranged her waist, patted her hair and answered the call of a director.
“Mother Maurice” is what they all call her at the studio and she is just that to everybody. She doesn’t mind saying she is past the sixty-year post though her eyes are still youthful and pretty — but then “Mother Maurice” is the kind that never gets old; she’s too broad-minded for that. And she plays life-portrayals with a knowledge of real life that few players have yet acquired.
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Collection: Motography Magazine, July 1913