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From the waves to the field of dramatic acting. Virginia Warwick, one of the famous Mack Sennett Bathing Beauties, deserted the lure of the swimming tank and the sandy beach and appears in one of the stellar roles in “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,” a Rex Ingram production for Metro, coming Saturday matinee for limited engagement at Loew’s State, with presentations at 2:15 and 8:15 o’clock thereafter. Miss Warwick in her portrayal of Chichi, the sister of the hero in this screen version by June Mathis, of the novel of Vicente Blasco Ibanez, gives to the Spanish-American beauty of the story that wealth of impulsive girlishness which one imagines such a character should possess. This former water nymph is from Missouri and came to California from St. Louis some two years ago. She was still attending high’school, being only slightly more than 15 years old —when in company with a theatrical friend she paid a visit to the Mack Sennett school of bathing beauties. Mack Sennett met her and for eighteen months her charm and beauty formed one of that galaxy of reasons why the beach of California is so popular with the motion picture fans. It was no accident or lucky chance that landed Virginia Warwick in “The Four Horsemen.” “Mr. Ingram didn’t happen to see me wandering about the hotel corridors or behold me dancing in a Los Angeles theater,” Miss Warwick explained. “I knew Mr. Ingram and had been looking for an opportunity to break into dramatic work. Director Ingram is a stickler for types and as I happened to fit his conception of Chichi, the sister of the hero in ’The Four Horsemen,’ I got the job.”