PICTURE STARS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 96, 14 July 1927, Page 16

PICTURE STARS

WALLACE BERRY Wallace Beery was born on a farm in Western Missouri. He and his brother Noah were educated in Kansas City. Among their classmates was Jesse James, jun. Wallace’s first experience in stage work was in the stock company his brother was working in Kansas City. Later, upon discovering that he possessed a good singing voice, he obtained a job in a musical comedy in New York City. Wallace started in motion pictures as a comedian and appeared in a long series of pictures as a Swedish house-

mount Pictures. maid. He went to Los Angeles with Mack Sennet and continued in comedies there. His first dramatic picture was Marshall Neilan’s “The Unpardonable Sin.” That was the beginning of his sensational career which, has placed him among the very select few at the top of the list of character actors. Since then he has played, among others, in “Behind the Door,” "The Spanish Dancer,” “The Devil’s Cargo,” “Adventure,” “In the Name of Love,” “Rugged Water,” “The Pony Express,” “Behind the Front,” “Old Ironsides,” “Casey at the Bat,” and “Looie the Fourteenth.” Beery is six feet one inch and weighs 235 pounds. He has light brown ha*r and eyes, and is an ardent hunter and fisherman.