Minneapolis today is harboring in motion picture actress who still believes in Santa Claus. And old Chris Kringle may be wary or he will be caught in his act on Christmas Eve when he emerges from the chimney at the home of Miss Margaret Quimby at 4715 Bryant avenue South. For Margaret will catch him if he doesn’t watch out. The Minneapolis girl of the silver screen who believes in Santa is Margaret Quimby who in less than 4 years has made a comfortable place for herself in filmdom.
Believes Firmly in Make Believe
She believes firmly in make believe for that is what she does in the pictures and that is why she still believes in Santa.
“I do believe in Santa Claus,” she said today,” Well perhaps not in the way that I believe that gifts come in his pack as he clambers down a chimney after parking his reindeer outside, but I do believe in the spirit of Santa Claus and all that he means and after all believing in the spirit of Santa is just as good as believing in old Nick himself.”
Just to support her belief Margaret came to Minneapolis to be with her mother and 2 brothers over the holidays and while she is here she will go to Mankato to be a beautiful Christmas Kringle for little nephews and nieces there.
Went to West High
It was mainly because it would leave her free to be home for Christmas that she was particularly glad to complete the picture she recently made with Reginald Denny at the universal studio. In this connection it is pointed out she shares honors with Marion Nixon, another Minneapolis girl in this picture with Reggie entitled “What Happened to Jones”. The picture will be shown at the state theater in 3 or 4 weeks. Margaret recalls that it was less than 4 years ago that she was doing senior work in West high school and studying in Mrs. Nobles dancing studio when she left school and all her plans for college and decided to devote her attention to the stage. It was at a dinner given for some Orpheum circuit vaudeville players that Margaret danced and was induced to join the William Seabury dancing act. Not long afterward she obtained a better connection with a nightclub in New York and then joined the follies.
In New York for work attracted the attention of officials of Universal Pictures and she signed a contract to appear in just one picture with Jack Dempsey. This was “Cupid’s Knockout” filmed 2 years ago on completion of the picture she won one a long term contract in since then has been moving upward on the movie ladder. Margaret is devoted to her work and declares that movie folks are just folks and nothing more. The villain goes home to have cold shivers run up is back and walk the floor when his child has colic and the vampire hurries off to get home to her youngsters and bake her husband’s favorite biscuits even though she has help preparing the entire meal.
From the Minneapolis Star, December 12th 1925
