Ben Hur

In the early 1900's Baltimorean Francis X. Bushman was a down and out actor, who, to make ends meet, hired himself out as a model to artists and sculptors. In that hand to mouth existence, he became the model for the statue of Cecil Calvert, which stands in front of the Baltimore courthouse on St Paul Street today. Years later when he was rich and famous he had occasion to visit Baltimore-but he did not ask to see the stature of Cecil Calvert for which he had been the model. His explanation surprises...