Thomas Chatterton — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1914) 🇺🇸

Thomas Chatterton began his theatrical career at the age of fourteen years in his home town, Geneva, New York.

He acquired the stage fever early in life and, with several of his schoolmates, fitted up a theater in an old barn. The boys made their own footlights, painted their own scenery and built their own “props.”

The first two plays presented by the lads were war drama, written and directed by Chatterton. After many appearances in amateur plays he secured the position of general utility man with one of the Shubert stock companies in Syracuse, N. Y.

That engagement was followed by varied experiences with stock and road companies until in 1910 he was contracted for a whole season at the Alcazar in San Francisco, where he became very popular. In May, 1913, he joined the Kay Bee, Broncho, and Domino forces as leading man.

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Collection: Motography Magazine, October 1914