Robert Leonard — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1914) 🇺🇸

Bob Leonard [Robert Z. Leonard] is a Universal Rex star, appearing in the pictures he helps to produce at the company’s west coast studios.

His stage career proper began eight years ago in Los Angeles, when he joined the chorus in the California Opera Company.

He went to work for $15.00 a week with the ultimatum from his father that if he did not double his salary before the end of the first season, he must get out of the business.

Before he left that company he became, all at the same time, comedian, assistant manager, stage manager, property man, and door keeper, and his salary was raised from $15.00 to $20.00 a week.

Then he turned to light opera, and played important parts in various light opera and dramatic companies in California until three years ago when he was engaged by the Universal Pacific Coast company to play juvenile leads, and later became leading man in Otis Turner’s company.

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Collection: Motography Magazine, August 1914