The energy and skill she displayed when riding over the Sierra foothills and desert sands to rescue Carlyle Blackwell from so many perils meant hard work and perseverance. Later, however, in some of the Indian pictures and the old Spanish legends, she showed real dramatic ability. At first she was not much of an actress, but it didn't seem to matter. The California pictures, all taken out in the bright sunlight, brought out every line and curve in her face and form as no artificial light could do. She left New York a pretty, timid little girl, and returned a beautiful, self-reliant woman. She gathered poise and dignity as well as health and good looks. In the free- out-of-door life of the plains the young girl grew in many ways. The fact that she remained on the Pacific Coast nearly two years is an example of the uncertainties of the profession. She expected to be there two months, and was a little frightened at the idea of being away from her mother, yet awed with the prospect of seeing the wonderful West. signed a contract with her, and after a few months' work in New York sent her to California. She was too excited to notice how often she fell off, but the next day she spent near the liniment bottle. She had said she could ride and she did-over a stretch of railroad ties with a wretched saddle. Practically her only riding experience had been with an old farm horse, who walked very calmly to the watering trough but she scorned to admit any lack of ability when her chance came. One day a photographer heard her say she could ride a horse, and when he became a Kalem camera man he sent for her. Everyone was attracted by her photographs, which have been used over and over again all over the world. Later she became a photographer's model, which meant a wider field. She began her career some six years ago as an artist's model.
Quiet and reserved, she doesn't talk very much about anything, but when she does she has something to say. One of her most noticeable characteristics is that she never talks about herself. Unlike many of her sister artists, she shrinks from rather than courts publicity. This young actress, whose personality in real life is just as sweet and wholesome as it looks on the screen, is not an easy person to interview.
PROMINENT among those players of the film drama who enjoy a paradoxical popularity-delighting daily as they do thousands of theatre-goers, and yet the sound of whose voices has never been heard-is Alice Joyce, the leading lady of the Kalem Motion Picture Company. Theatre Magazine, May 1913 Popular "Movie" Actress
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