Ralph Lewis — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1914) 🇺🇸

Ralph Lewis’ early ambition to imitate a certain Scotch comedian was the indirect means of bringing him to Broadway and establishing him in his chosen profession.

As a very young man Mr. Lewis joined a small “Rep” company in Chicago, and soon played all the towns of the middle west. Then he found himself stranded in a “coal town” in Pennsylvania where he met a Scotch mine foreman and dialect stories in his finest style brought forth a loan.

A ticket to New York was bought, and soon Mr. Lewis was appearing in “The Private Secretary” which was followed by many successful seasons with Broadway productions and resulted finally in his introduction to motion picture audiences on the Mutual program.

His Scotch repertoire rendered at the shaft of a coal mine marked the turning point in his theatrical life.

His fondness for the screen promises to hold him for pictures indefinitely.

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Collection: Motography Magazine, February 1914