Wally Van — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1913) 🇺🇸

Wally Van has a high forehead, an expert knowledge of engineering, a pleasant disposition and ever so many other creditable things to own up to.

But the fact that he is a real engineer is the one he takes most pride in — and who’d a thunk it of Cutey: But he is (an engineer) and has general charge of Mr. Blackton’s [J. Stuart Blackton] yachts and motor boats and monkeys around in the Vitagraph’s engine room.

In his spare moments he plays “Cutey” roles and others and has come to like the play part of it rather well, though he confesses to a preference for boiler rooms and over-alls. Perhaps it’s difficult to imagine this, especially after seeing Wally in a “Cutey” picture, but Wally and “Cutey” are really quite dissimilar, not in looks but in disposition.

Sailing is Wally’s favorite occupation in life and ‘tis said he knows so much about power boats he could make one himself. He’s dreadfully clever, is Wally.

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Collection: Motography Magazine, July 1913