Maude Hill (1916) 🇺🇸

Maud Hill, who has appeared in several Metro wonderplays, and was recently seen with Julius Steger in The Blindness of Love, learned some very interesting history about that well-known star when they met for the first time on the floor of the Rolfe-Metro studio.

Miss Hill is the widow of the late James H. Hill, the theatrical manager and producer. It was Mr. Hill who gave Mr. Steger his first engagement, when he came from Vienna to take up a stage career here.

At that time Mr. Hill was completing the cast for The Fencing Master, in which Marie Tempest was starred. Mr. Steger made an impression upon Mr. Hill by his earnestness and his anxiety to make a place and name for himself in his newly adopted land. A friendship resulted from this meeting that lasted until Mr. Hill’s death.

It was quite a coincidence that in the same company with Mr. Steger and Miss Hill, in The Blindness of Love, was another artist that owes her success to Mr. Hill, and who was a member of the cast with Mr. Steger in The Fencing Master. This was Hattie de Laura. The trio spent many hours together recounting stories of their early careers. Miss Hill married Mr. Hill when she was very young, and always had a desire to go upon the stage. Her husband, however, would never consent to this, and it was not until his death that she adopted a professional career.

Her first appearance was with Florence Reed in The Cowardly Way and in The Heart of New York, on the Equitable program.

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Collection: Moving Picture World, April 1916