Ned Burton — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1914) 🇺🇸

Ned Burton is the fat man of the Pathé Company and he’s the kind of a genial fat man that everybody likes.

He has white hair that parts in the center and stands up on either side of the part like snowy bushes and he has a jolly laugh that would make anybody forget there is such a color in the world as blue.

Galesburg is the town that sent Mr. Burton forth on the one-night route and the vaudeville circuit; the latter claimed him for eighteen years and took him into every corner of the United States.

So when the Burton features smiled out at the world from the screen that trailed the Pathé rooster as a trademark, they greeted many old friends as well as many new ones.

It is just one year ago since he joined the Pathé players and it has been a year of “everybody’s satisfied.”

While he spends his days in the interest of pictures he spends his evenings, all of them, in allowing the pictures to interest him.

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Collection: Motography Magazine, January 1914