Mary E. Ryan — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1913) 🇺🇸

Mary E. Ryan [Mary Ryan] was worn out from stage work and needed a rest; she went to Tucson, Arizona, joined the Lubin film company and, after many months’ strenuous out-of-door work is in perfect health and likes film work so well that she hopes never to go back to the stage.

She is slender and pretty, with dark eyes and dark hair and a vivacity and fearlessness that has taken her creditably through numberless thrilling performances. San Francisco is her home, where she spent her school days at the convent of the Holy Name.

She was always chosen for important parts in school plays and, on graduation, took up the study of dramatics.

Two years later she went on the stage, played leads with Louis Morrison, seconds in Bishop’s Ye Liberty Stock company and later, with Marjorie Ramleau.

Pictures were next and she likes them best of all — better even than her legitimate stage work.

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Collection: Motography Magazine, November 1913