Kinston, Feb. 17—His own perseverance, coupled with the interest of local friends, will get Edwin Pate, 15-year-old boy of this city, a “chance in the movies,” it was stated today. Young Pate has only one leg. He believes there is a “niche” somewhere in filmdom for a one-legged actor. He is satisfied he has some histrionic ability. Friends here will “stand by him” until his venture has proved to be a success or failure. A big producer with headquarters at New York will sponsor the lad’s adventure in the mystic land of close-ups and fade-outs.
Pate is regarded as clever by his friends. He is a bright-faced fellow. Minus a limp since infancy, he does everything a “complete boy” would do. He wrote a movie manager he could “do anything except walk on two feet.”
From page 13 of the Raleigh News & Observer, Sunday, February 18, 1923
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