Vintage Movie Resources

Yale Boss receives a large personal mail. It is the kind of mail that follows the screen.

A little while ago I walked into a motion picture house to talk with an exhibitor. Involuntarily my eyes wandered in the direction of the screen, and immediately stayed there charmed by the work of a child artist whom I had never seen before either on or off the screen.

In an exclusive interview with the Moving Picture World the great master of visualization tells of his impressions and expectations

Miss Helen E. Connelly, aged six, is a most bewitching little lady with soft brown eyes and an air of artistic languor

Edna, who still has two years to travel before entering her ‘teens, is, in spite of her tender youth, a theatrical veteran, having begun her artistic career as the “Baby” in Francis Wilson’s popular success, “The Bachelor’s Baby.”

“Andy”, who made the “Andy” series famous, was called to his first interview straight from the camera and in full costume, the latter consisting of a grandfather’s high hat, a pair of long pants and a black mustache.

Interviewed Adelaide Lawrence, aged seven, in the Kalem studio. Adelaide was chaperoned but not coached by both her father and mother, indeed, much of the biographical data were gathered from Adelaide while she was seated on her mother’s knee.

Moving Picture World wishes to pay a well-deserved tribute to the clever and gifted little boys and girls who have helped with such skill and sincerity to make the motion picture true to life.