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BUFFALO BILL IS DEAD,
BUT, BILL HART ISNT
Not Even in Palmiest Days Did Plainsman Have More Followers Than
Noted Actor, Says Ray V. Frohman.
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BY RAT W. FROHSIAN.
(Copyrighl by Evening Herald Pubiisbins
C ompany.)
UFFALO BILL, is dead. But Bill
Hart still remains. And not
even in his palmiest daj-s the
days of his plainsmanship or the days
of his showmanship did the famous
former have an audience so great or
a following so enthusiastic as the
famous latter.
If I expected to get a bullet through
I'o'h ears and be snaked off my feet
by a well-thrown lasso, I was disap
pointed. For William S. Hart did none of
these things when he greeted me.
He Just looked kind of "sad but de
termined," as though he were accused
of being a stage-robber and didn't
dare to defend himself.
Bill Hart's expression in real life Is
very much the same as it is vlieu
you see him on the screen.
Plain Hill Hart.
He Is just Bill Hart. What more is
there to be said about it? Of course
there is much more to be said about
Kill, but about his appearance and
his expression just not another
word.
And I'll say he's pleasant. Why, he
didn't even knock me out and put his
toot on my chest before inquiring my
business!
We have all seen in the films a
rugged, gaunt individual with a face
like a mule's, so "hard-boiled" of
mien as to be almost beautiful: and
we have seen this knight of the plains
do goodly deeds until that face, re
flecting his homely, heroic virtues,
has registered kindliness, even ten
derness. He isn't always a cowpuncher with
a. barking "gat" in each fist.
Sometimes he's a lumberjack.
sometimes he a a convict, sometimes
a sea captain, or a frontier preacher;
but usually he s an outdoor man, and
always he's a HE-man, just as Gala
had was a HE-man, virile and admir
able. Homrly, Heroic Virtues
I found out lately why those home
ly, heroic virtues o'erspread the face
of the man who fittingly bears such
sobriquets as "Blue Blazes Rawden,"
"The Tiger Man," "Two-Gun Hicks"
and "Shark Monroe."
It's because his intimate personal
history and his biography are as full
of humble incidents and homely les
rons as Benjamin Franklin's, and
thrice as thrilling shows that he
himself has those simple virtues.
When you hear "Bill" Hart relate
unassumingly his experiences and
beliefs, it's easy to understand how he
"got started" and never stopped.
This rough-and-ready terror of
bad men" I discovered in a regular
civilized office at his studio in Holly
wood, ready to pack up for going
out "on location" in the Mojave
desert for 10 days. He was wearing
"store clothes" a clean white shirt,
neat gray pants, plain black shoes.
The son of a gun, to use the language
o( Panamint and Lost Hope. Ariz.,
was actually riding a swivel chair.'
Not Wild or Woolly.
Unless you consider the lack of a
coat and collar the mark of a plains
man, there was nothing of the wild
and woolly about this quiet, polite
gentleman with the light brown hair,
determined frown, light blue eyes,
high check " bone, firm lips with
thoughtful lines about them, and
strong Jaw.
Kxcept that he averaged one "damn"
and one "hell" to the minirte he might
have been his own gentle pinto pony
with the feed bag on.
You've got to go back into his his
tory a bit to understand "how Bill
Hart did it"; how this raw youth of
IS. who had lived in Dakota territory
until he was 15, playing, riding bare
back and shooting with Sioux Indian
kids, got his first stage job as a
"super" at Drury Lane theater in
London and a few weeks later lied
his way to New York into his first
part, in a road show; and how he
first starred on the road in 1902 as
John Storm In "The Christian."
' And then you'll want to know how
in 1913. with an established reputa
tion in Shakespearean and classic
dramas and' later in western roles, he
refused an offer to be featured in a
Bradway production in 1914 to star, at
Irs than one-fourth the salary, in his
first picture with Triangle, "The Bar
gain" until today, instead of being a
star and leading man at three or four
hundred a week facing an average
audience of 800, he stars before from
eight to ten million people a day in
about 60 pictures being shown all over
the world, with he won't tell how
much salary, "because 1 don't wish to
bunk the public, and what's the dif
ference?" Sa-ra He "Inhrrltrd It."
"I inherited what title stage ability
I have," said Mister Hart. And if
you'd talked to him you'd call him
"Mister." too.
."Hj grandfather un my faihei'c eide'
was one of the greatest criminal law
yers In England, John Gleason Hart
My father, Nicholas Hart, an Oxford
man, who came to Newburgh, N. Y.
where I was born, when he was i
young man, after going around the
world before the mast, was a wonder
ful orator.
"That's the best talent in the world
to Inherit for the state. A great
orator is necessarily a great actor. In
his speech, his gesticulation, his
graceful postures in delivery, you
have the elements of acting.
"From the time I was six months
old till I was 15 we lived in Dakota
territory. I was playing with Sioujr
kids at their typical sports while
other boys of my age back in New
York were playing baseball and foot
ball. I knew and loved there, as a
boy, the western characters I played
on the stage after playing Cash Haw
kins in "The Squaw Man" with Fa
versham in New York in 1905.
Eight Milra to .School.
"I'd ridden eight miles on a pony to
a little Dakota scnooi witn live pu
pils, but I'd had little formal educa
tion "when my parents took, me to
New York at 15. At public school
they thought me stubborn and I can
hardly blame 'em and had my father
before the board of education to ex
plain. "I had Indian habits. I wouldn't
say 'Good morning." If they'd talk
to me, I'd turn and walk away, as an
Indian does. An Indian doesn't say
'Goodby' or 'Go to hell,' or anything.
I was stoical.
"My father, who was a highly edu
cated man, decided I'd better be tu
tored at home. I was a big strapping
kid, anyhow, among a lot of children.
For a year and a half he 'crammed'
me, and I passed the scholastic ex
amination for West Point. You needed
70 to pass and I got 70.20.
"He ground it in, but I was always
great on application anything I went
after I stayed with till I got.
"I was crazy to go to West Point
so I could get back west as an officer.
I'd always lived near forts, and was
familiar with soldier life. But my
father couldn't get me an appoint
ment, and I was brokenhearted.
"I'll tell you a dramatic incident
that changed my whole life just then
I've never told this to anyone, I
think," continued Mr. Hart, his voice
sinking to a Whisper.
"There was a wonderful bond of
affection between me and my father.
I made up my mind to run away from
home. I went down to the east river
and made arrangements with a cap
tain to let me work my way to Aus
tralia. The boat was to sail at 5;
I was to go on board at 4. I made
It all right, crawling past my parents'
door with my belongings in a bundle
over my shoulder, but just as I closed
the house door I felt a hand on the
other side of the knob.
"It was my father, in his night
gown. He questioned me, and I told
him the boat would reach Melbourne
in six months 'All right, laddie I'll
meet you there,' he said and he'd a
been there, too. I went back to bed!"
Then young Hart, who had been
spending his spare quarters as a gal
lery god in New York, told his father
of his ambition to become an actor.
His dad explained that acting was
an art which called for culture and
rennement and tor which a raw
prairie boy wasn't fitted; but that it
he was determined, he. should at least
"break in" in Europe, seeing the best
development of centuries and getting
the rough edges off him. He espe
cially advised him to learn fencing.
But the eldor Hart wasn't able t
send him abroad, being just about
to take his family to plunge in a faf
northwestern venture. So "Bill'
worked his way on a cattle boat, re
ceived $4.85 at the end ofthe trip,
walked 208 miles from Liverpool ta
London, and worked there till h
saved up enough to take him to Paris.
Noting the "Ici on parle Anglais"
sign in a store. Bill submitted a little
Idea of his own delivering parcels
to people who spoke English and de
livered for four or five firms. His
room cost him five francs a week.
Mornings he washed windows and
scrubbed floors at a fencing master's,
to receive "wonderful" lessons after
hours from an assistant whom Bill,
who was always "handy with his
hands," taught American boxing.
Every night he went to the theater.
In 14 weeks Bill went back to Lon
don and, being 18, tall and well made,
without trouble got his job carrying
a spear. In four or five weeks he
went back to Liverpool paying his
fare this time and was given free
passage home on a cattle boat. .
He Ilnrl White Lie.
1 knew I had to lie and I did,"
Mr. Hart explained regarding his
landing his first part in New York.
'It 'was a white lie. I told 'em I'd
played in London. I knew only how
to put paint on.
"I got a pob at 12 a week with
Daniel E. Bandmann, on the road in
repertoire, including Shakespeare and
such plays as "Dr. Jekyil and Mr.
Hyde," and In eight months I played
52 parts juveniles, heavies, bits, old
men, boys, everything.
How did I work up from that to
become a star? The same way as
others. It takes many years service,
and I suppose there must have been
some ability behind it. It's ten thou
sand times harder to succeed on the
stage, in my opinion. A picture star
can be made almost overnight."
After that first tour. Hart served
his apprenticeship with Madame
Mojeska, Julia Arthur and Madame
Khea, playing diversified roles, leads
and heavies, in Shakespearean and
classic dramas. Following his being
starred in "The Christian," Hart was
the original Messala in "Ben Hur."
After his hit as "The Virginian" in
1908-9 he played principally western
roles.
Hard Work Doen It.
"You've got to keep attracting more
attention." Hart continued in ex
plaining his rise to stardom, "gradu
ally getting better parts and better
salary, always working hard and
making good. Did I have to 'club'
'em into making me a star? If they
want you. they want you, and you
have mighty little to say about it;
if they select you, you can go down
on your knees and thank God they
found you that's been my experi
ence." j
Walking down Euclid avenue in
Cleveland, where he was playing in
"The Trail of the Lonesome Pine."
one cold winter night in 1913, Hart
blew into a cinema house to keep
warm. It was the first picture he
ever saw. He was thrilled, and ob
sessed with the idea that his oppor
tunity lay on the screen.
Here He Comen.
Rejecting the offer to be featured
on Broadway, he paid his own fare
to California, and In 1914 began as
the "star" at only $75 a week in his
first Triangle picture, "The Bargain,"
with scenes in the Grand Canyon. He
has been starring in movies ever
since.
In 1917 began the William S. Hart
Productions, Inc., for the Famous
riayers-Lasky corporation, including
the latest release, "John Petticoats,"
in which, as a Washington lumber-
Jack, Hart inherits a modiste's shop
in New Orleans, where scenes were
taken. He is now working on the
first of nine special productions he
is to produce himself, as his own boss
and without limit on time or footage.
And that's "how" the pleasant gen
tleman in the swivel chair who could
have shot the whiskers off my eye
ball without touching the lid "did
it."
various forms is Berved and at which
Ike cannot forget the main issue ad
vertising the article. There is many
an argument between the old repro
bates concerning the rules of eti
quette and social manners, but it is
difficult to figure which has the best
of it, although it makes rare good
laughing material for the audience.
Several late song and chorus hits
will be introduced by Dot Raymond,
Billie Bingham, Charlton Chase, Clar
ence Wurdig and the other clever
principals, assisted by the Rosebud
girls, such as "Cinda Lou," "AH" the
Boys Love Mary," "Oh, Mother, I'm
Wild," etc. Matinee every day. Coun
try store Tuesday night and chorus
girls' contest Friday.
CANDIDATE FOR . CONGRESS
ADOPTS SLOGAN".
"Legislation in Interests or All the
People and Development of Ore
gon" Pledge of O. F. Jones.
BAKER, Or., March 20. (Special.)
Rev. Owen F. Jones, rector of the
St. Stephens Episcopal church of
Baker, has prepared his nomination
petition on the republican ticket as
candidate for the office of United
States representative from the second
congressional district of the state of
Oregon. The general belief in eastern
Oregon is that the reverend gentle
man will give N. B. Sinnott, republi
can, present incumbent, a hot race
to the Washington office. Jones' pe
tition should reach the secretary of
state today or tomorrow.
The campaign slogan adopted by
Rev. Mr. Jones, embodied in his pe
tition, is:
'Leghilation in the interests of all
the people, and the development of
Oregon's natural resources."
In his petition he makes the follow
ing statement of policy:
"If I am nominated and elected, I
will during my term of office, advo
cate legislation in the interests of all
the people, with due regard to the
equal rights of capital, labor and the
general public, and will give every
encouragement for the development
of the natural resources of the state
of Oregon, to the end that they may
be' enjoyed by the greatest number.
My earnest effort will be devoted to
the end that Oregon may receive its
just proportion for its own improve
ment of the funds derived by the
government from Oregon's resources.
NEWS OF THE THEATERS
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starting this afternoon, with Dillon
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Being of vast Importance in their
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merriment of the piece. Among other
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