Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 300, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1911 — Picture Unites a Brother and Sister [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Picture Unites a Brother and Sister

AURORA, ILL.—John.Stanton of Aurora and his missing sister, Mrs. Q. W. Waters of Philadelphia, whom he has not seen for 20 years, have been reunited through a moving picture film, and the Aurora man has gone to make Sis future home with his relative. Mrs. Waters is an actress who paid her last visit to her brother alifiost a quarter of a century ago when she was appearing at the Park theater in Brooklyn. Correspondence finally was trapped and Mr. Stanton waited year after year tor some word from the woman. Recently his attention was called to a theater poster in Aurora and the striking resemblance between the woman and his long-lost sister caused him to buy a ticket for the performance. As the drama was cast on the screw he recognised the nurse to the young heroine in the drama as his sister. He sought out the manager, obtained the address of the film company, and ultimately located her in Philadelphia. He recently returned from a ten weeks’ visit and goes back to pass the remainder of his life at her home. Stanton, who is 73 years old, was born In New York and served in the navy during the Civil war at the Brooklyn navy yards. After the war he

moved west and became a farmer. A few years ago he moved to Aurora. The Stantons have been of a dramatic tendency and most of them have been actors and actresses. Mrs. Waters has been on the stage for 46 years and expects to remain there the rest of her life. Stanton’s nephew, Barry O’Neal, la stage maanger for a film company, while Mrs. O’Neal writes many of their picture dramas. This is the second time that a moving picture film has been the means of bringing together separated relatives. Two years ago a moving picture in Goshen, Ind., showed an ostrich farm. Suddenly a woman in the audience cried out and swooned. She had recognised a boy leading an ostrich in the picture as her son, who had run away with a circus a year or more before. Communication with the company which made the film resulted in the boy being restored to his mother