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By HENRY
Gri7fj Stages a $50,000 Day for "Two Orphans"
A.FOIUTNATi: few of in won- Invited out to D. W. Griffith's ntudio nt
Mnmnroncok, on I.ohr Hnnil. Inst Sunday to sec him put on one of thoso
huge mob scenei which first made him the most famous of moving-picture
directors. OrlflHh Is making "The Two Orphans." He Is putting on the
guillotine episode on a lavish scale and it was this sequence that we saw on
Sunday.
They have constructed a mnru'loua set to represent a section of rnrls
during the Terror. All the way down the lot. for more than a city block,
ther have heen erected the fronts of houses, four, five and six stories high.
Another row runs ucross In the distance the guillotine in the foreground, a
beautiful fountain In the middle ground. I
It was n dn that will not soon be forgotten by those of us who were ,
present. Two thousand people in the costumes of the Revolution wore crowded
ln'tbc movie street; eerj door anil every window was peopled. Kvcn the roofs
allowed colorful dots where some one had climbed high to see the hated aristo- i
crats drheu tii in the carts and lid to their death under the knife.
Down at the operating end the had built platform for the cameras and
from one of these lirihlth and his assistant shouted their orders and directed '
the action
You can have no idea of what a ncrie-racking job a mob scene like this
is for a director especially to such a man as (irithth. who llnimces hi own
productions. Oue of his olhee force made a lough calculation for me and
reported that the day's expenses would be something over $50,000. This did
not Include the great cost of building the set. It was merely costumes, salaries
and expenses for that day nlone.
With ever simile mluute meaning more than $100 in cold cash, jou may
Imagine how maddening it Is to the
careful explanation and then see some
aitate rehearsing and shooting all out
yWT did not see (Irtffith lose hii iim;i oner. It tens ncccisary
at time for him in apttik Wiuriy to tome of in imnlmiM irAo irere
not gctttng the effuits he wanted, but he Inn a way of doing this that
reprimand! without leaving a stina.
LILLIAN GISH on thut daj became the world's most ncarl) guillotined
young woman. At least a dozen times she had to go through the action.
Bomctlmes it was because of mistakes in the mob Sometimes it was because
Griffith wanted to shoot It in several different wajs, to chouse the but later iu
the cutting room.
I didn't, envy Lillian her jnln'onc bit. The strapped her to the board.
lowered her and clamped her neck down .d then above her was the wicked
looking knife, and a slip of the rope or a jolt of the stand might have meant
udden death.
"I've often read." she told me afterward, "that some of those poor people
went to the guillotine laughing und eaiefn-e I don't belle e it. All da toda
I knew that ever precaution was being taken to keep that knife from falling,
but I simply couldn't get away from the fear of It. If I feit that nj, knowing
that the chances we're all in in favor, how must the hae felt, knowing that
' the chances were all against them? I think this scene was more tring on me
than the ice scenes in 'Way Down Hast." "
Unfortunately some one had told her. just before they started work, of a
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of time, lost his nerve and refused to go
The producers had guaranteed that
iiniotinr ns It was constructed could
happened. Hut he wouldn't play end
a dummy was placed on the block and
dummy's head as clean as a whistle.
TO HAKE it tcone for Lillian an Sunday, thty tool, a guillotining
scene xcith a dummy just before she went oh for her pari, .ind the
knife fell icith such a uckening thud that there couldn't be much doubt
as to its weight and possibilities for damage.
CJEVEUAL times, while she was strapped and pinioned with the wicked look-
J lng-blnile high over her neck, they had to leave her that way for man agoniz
ing minutes while something or other was rearranged iu the mob or while assist
ant directors went running down the long street with orders from the boss.
i . But each time I noticed that consideration for his people which has made
Griffith noted among directors rtj
"Are you all right. Mis Oish?" lie would call. "Are you comfortable.'
With Griffith, Lillian is always "Miss Wish, while her sister is just I
"Dorothy." And I never suw two stars more genuinely beloved by every one
' sho works with them. One little incident which came under m own observa
tion Sunday will show you why.
They had worked all through the morning and didn't call lunch until about i
2:30. Then two of the camera men had to stay on the lot to muke repairs and
did not get time to eat.
JJorotny was standing earning 10 me
two men telling each other how hungry
B8keu II tiiey nau not liau lime to get
not, she quietly excused herself from me and lett. xnree minutes later sue came
back carrying two plates heaped high with food from the restaurant. She
handed these to the men with no ostentation whatever. And I judge from the
matter of fact way in which they accepted that this was no unusual incident
that It was quite the kind of thing tlie were accustomed to have Dorothy do.
Mnny of the popular favorites of other Grifhth productions were at Mamaro
neck that day. Carol Dempster, hemm- of "Dream Street," watched the work
going on, while Charles Mack, who plaed the weakling brother In the same
production, acted as an assistant dlrei or on a platform high obo.e the heads
of the mob. Kate Uruce, the "mother ' in "Va, Down l'ast." helped till in the
mob.
Mrs. Caroline Harthelmess, mother of Richard, was down to meet her
friends and sec this big scene put on. Ilurton Holmes was there and Kyra, tin
Winter Garden danclug sensation, and 1'opa SehilcJkraut, founder of the Jewish
theatre and discoverer of many of toduy's great dramatic stars. His sun.
Joseph, of "Lilllom" fame is plaing in this production of "The Two Orphans '
Monte Blue is playing Dnutoa, and I predict a great big surprise for Ulue'n
admirers when they see the strength and dramatic fervor he is throwing Into a
part so different from anything he has ever done.
"I was glad to get the part," he told me. "Out on the Coast, they were
keeping me in the same kind of thing and I felt I was going stale. So 1 came
East and--took this. If ou stick to one kind of thing in acting, it narrows
you. I don't want to get narrow." '
Axn,
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when I irantcd to get a
expressed the remarkable suint
is tunic in (Vidcncc in Iht driffith organisation than in any I have ever
seen. ",r'' do 1 latir " he iaid "7Au is coitwg Mr. Griffith a lot
of money. If hi irants me, 1 don't uanl him to hate to lose tunc send
ing foi me. I want to be light theie."
Daily Tabloid Talks to Fans
on Breaking Into the Movies
By JOHN EMERSON and ANITA LOOS
Hoiv Emotions Are Stirred Up in the Studios
The authors of this seites are the
famous Emerson and Loos, who have
written some of the most successful
photoplays. They now have full
charge of all scenarios for Constance
Talmadgc.
tpIIE directors In most studios try
help the actors up to a proper
emotional "pitch" bj employing small
orchestras to play during the Important
cenes.
Herbert Brenon, who recently di
rected Norma Tnlmndce in "The I'n.
Mon F'ower," "The Sijn on the Door'
nil "The Wonderful Thing." wmih
not undertake the direction of a pic
ture without the acecmpiiniinent of an
crehestrn.
.Norma plays In th" more seiiou nnd
dramatic type of production and the
music is nlvvn.vs iu harmony with the
kltuntlona heine nortriived.
Yl 'On the other hand, Constance Tal-
y. aaadio, who is at her best In the lighter
livelier corned) drnmns, likes to have 11
jum band going when she's at work.
Anita Stewart, Sidney Frnnklln,
Marshall Nellnn and Charlie Chnplln
are othirs who prefer to work to music.
lYftnklln even used a small orchestrn
recently during the production of
"Courage" to make the "convicts" In a
rvlson scene do the locksten In cadence.
This may sound bizarre, but It is true,
ami Mr. Franklin got tho results he
dtslred.
K rt'neny every large siuuio, wiierr
uporo" than, one company In working,
re'M iW ru the faint strains
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few dumbbells get it all wrong and ueces i
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there would be no danger, and that the
not burin him even if an W'ldent had
the sued him in the courts. As a test, i
the knife was dropped. It sliced off the I
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unuer cue muuurm wuen wp iiruru ic j
the were Dorothy looked up and i
mncn. v. uen sne nearu mui cury huu
nroup together for a photograph, he
nf loyally and co-operation which
1 actors v 1th spoken
direction ns the
scene Is made.
Tlie w ise screen actors of todnv are
borrowing the two fiielcs of prepara
tion and nuto-suggestlon from their
trethren of the stage
t0 1 Preparation consists merely in
is begun In going over the part, In
thinking nlwut It, and In trying r'nlly
ti feel ill the emotions of the char
acter in question.
Auto-suggestion consists in
working oneself up to the part be
fore going before the camcrt bv various
expedients.
For example, one actor, before play
ing a part calling for extreme nnger
spends some ten minutes in clenching
his fists, swearing nt the hnndict fence
post, setting his jaw and so making
himself really angry.
It is not hard to reproduce emotion
by theso tricks of auto-suggestion. Try
thinking of something sad draw your
face down and before long you will be
In n vsrv glum mood.
That is the way such stars as Norma
Talmadge and Anita Stewart prodiico
tears Ion short notice. Most people
think they are tricks of make-up, such
as drops of glycerine: as a matter of
1 fart, It Is a matter of puckering the
nice ami a tew gloomy thoughts,
Tho Importnnt thing Is that he be
nware that there is such a thing ns
psychology nnd that. If he will only
understand .t, as npplled td himself, he
run improve nis work as n nlm player.
(These "TaNoid Talk
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OLD P,4?S S
IT'S EASY TO GET
INTO THE MOVIES,
! SA Y THESE WRITERS
T AND1NO a job
J-'hiis come to be looked upon as a
most gigantic and difficult undertaking.
The profession Is regarded as a most
desirable one and an opportunity to i
work In n studio Is continually being
sought not only by those who can act
or belie. c they can act. but by many '
artists and artisans who wish to ply
their reiieetlxo trndes or professions In
some one of the many other branches of
production work. The heads of the
j various departments are continually
swamped with applications from those
desiring positions, nnd a studio job is
iilwa.. tilled almost the moment It Is
vaulted. Never has n studio found it
necessary to advertise for help.
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once In a while
some one comes along nnd does the mi
raculous, and gives everybody n big sur
prise. The stories of how Hazel MacDonald
and Vienna Know Hon, two young sce
nario writers, walked right into the
I.usky studio nnd sot positions on Wil
liam De Mllle's literary staff read like
fairy tales.
"You haven't a ghost of a chance!"
or some similar expression of the same
idea was the slightly discouraging re
mark of some one within the studio to
the young ladies when they Inquired re
garding the prospects of "getting In" as
scenario writers.
And et Miss MacDonald. who has
been in the studio scenario department
now for a little over one jear. nnd Mta
Knowlton, whose photoplay experience
Is now n matter of a little over three
months, have just finished collaborating
upon a screen version'of Htta Weiinan's
story, "After the Show."
TWrlSS MacDONALD didn't even have
'i to ask for a position, rfhe was
ata nui. . ,.,,!, ,
dared to be n scenario writer
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liwlr "I
course, remarKs the young
could never refuse a dare." The dnrc
was from none other than Cecil B. Dc ,
Mille, director general and one of the I
foremost producers nt the Lasky studio, j
"I wns formerly a newspaper worn- 1
nn," she relates. "I wat. on a fair
magazine for one car in Chicago and
then wrote for Chicago and Los Angeles
newspapers. I was in Chicago nt this
time nnd Mr De Mille had come East
to confer with Adolph Zukor, president
of Famous Plaeis- Lasky Corporation
.ur. ue .Mine una .Mr. .ukor met In a 1
room
went
in one of the large hotels and I
over to get the story. I under-
stood thnt the two officials had just tlf
' n minutes In which to discuss mat
ters of grave importance before keep
ing other pressing engagements. Hut,
nevertheless, I must have the story. So
I called up the room on tho phone,
asked for a moment's interview, and to
my surprise it was granted. 1 went
right up and met Mr. De Mille.
" 'Why don't ou do motion -picture
work?' asked Mr. De Mille when wc
had finished the business at hand.
" 'I don't know if I dare try,' was
my reply
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AN IMMENSE set representing n
street In the Taris of revolutionary
days has been built by D. W. Griffith
nt his plant on Long Island for "The
Two Orphans." "The pnnorama shows
how the street looks from the back,
with construction details giving a good
" 'Then I dare you to try,' said Mr.
Dc Mille.
"I couldn't refuse n dare, so a few
wcekRi later found me In Hollywood,
asking to sec Mr. De Mille. I saw Mr.
Dc Mille and was given a position, und
after watching him direct two pictures
I was put in the scenario department.
I have now been at the Lasky studio a
little over a ear."
M
ISS KNOWLTON didn't wait to be
a scenario writer, went to Hollvwood
with a letter of Introduction to Iiculah
Mnrle Dlx, one of the staff writers nt
Lasky's, and gained an Interview with
Mis Dlx. Thnt was on February 1- of
this car.
"Through Miss Dlx I met Miss Har
mer, the little lady who Is literary as
sistant for William De Mille," explains
Miss Knowlton. "One day Mr. De
Mille came to Miss Harmer and told her
he wanted a new writer for his stuff and
asked if she could recommend uny one.
Miss Harmer very kindly recommended
me nnd that afternoon I hud a long talk
with the producer
"When we had finished our talk he
snid, 'How would ou like to come to
work tomorrow morning nt 0 o'clock?'
I replied that thnt was a consumma
tion most devoutlv to be wished nnd
came to work next morning on a sort
of three months' probation., The three
months is now up nnd I am n regit
Inr.' I had always wanted to work at
'IlP Lasky studio and I am sure notli-
"'R oiim nave inuue nie imppier.
.Miss lvnowiton s experience has oeen
varied. She btudied playwrltlng under
I'rof. linker nt Harvard for two
years and then for tlx yenrs was nn
actresR In connection with his work.
She has written nnd produced pageanti
In Iioston, her native city. She has
also been n professional dancer.
Miss Knowlton demonstrated her
ability as a scenario writer when she
won the prize In a scenario contest hell
by Thomas II Inee, the producer. Her
winning scenario was entitled "The
Little Snake."
EASILY IN MOVIEDOM
AND VIANNA KNOWLTON
to land with both feet In good joba la
Idea of how such movie cities arc braced
up. Helow Griffith is seen directing a
mob scene from the enmcra platform.
He Is the man in the straw hat.
Seated on the top step you seo Lil
lian Glsh, in white dress and cap, and
Dorothy Gish with her hair down her
back.
TWO BIG COMPANIES
MAKE APPEAL FOR
FRESH SCENARIOS
By CONSTANCE PALMER.
Holly wod, Calif.. Aug. 22.
AFTER creeping around corners,
listening nt keyholes, nnd peeking
In windows, nil in the name of me art,
somebody called me up and told me the
very thing I'd been snooping for. Ain't
Fate funny? The nnme. dearly be
loved, of Mr. William de Mllle's coming
production, scheduled to come off In
about two weeks, is "Miss Lulu Rett."
I leave It to you. what could be nicer?
Mildred Harris Is the leading woman,
and though the rest of the east Is not
yet selected, the names of Theodore
Roberts, Helen Ferguson, Clarence
Burton, Mabel Vnn Iliucn nnd little
May Glrneci were sleuthed out. Clever
Clara Beranger has written the script.
I've been hunting up nil the signs of
improving times thnt I can lay hands
on. Nothing could be more depressing
than the calamity choriiB now current.
Well, here's nn encouraging note:
Both Universal and Goldwyn are look
ing for new stories. (Soldwjn especially
calls for stories written directly for the
sci een bv what they term "a screen
mind If a promising writer turns up
they offer training In scieen technique
nnd knowledge of screep values.
Universal culls for stories for Prls
cilia Dean, Hnrry Carey, Marie Pro
vost, Miss ilu Pont nnd Hoot Gibson.
You aspiring writers would do well to
study the pictures of thebe people and
decide which one you are best fitted
and inspired to write for. Here's an
opportunity you don't have to make;
it's handed to you on u silver platter !
FERDINAND P1NNEY EARLE is
still two weeks from the end of his
production of "The Rubaiyat." I was
Invited over to watch a wonderful big
set they were shooting. The scene
showed a street In old Persia: the light
was dim so dim I wondered if it could
possibly "pick up": crowds of people,
dressed in nncient costumes, moved
about in n casually natural manner sel
dom seen on the screen. (Incldentnlly,
the costumes were pleasantly grimed,
ns If from long usage.)
Then soldiers, lashing the people out
of the street with murderous-looking
cats-o'-nlne-talls, made way for n
religious procession. It was the anni
versary of the denth of a follower of
Mohammed, and mourners, gory fiom
head to foot, passed by, lashing them
selves cruelly with whips and beating
themselves with shnrp swords, followed
by lumbering elephants and mincing
cnmels.
The mnl;e-up of the mourners was so
realistic their cuts nnd gashes so ob
viously gushing forth blood that it
made me a little sick to see them, even
though ( knew It wns only slathers of
make-up 1
There was lots more great Negroes
bentlng drums of nnimnl skin, 11 whirl
ing dervish, dancers nnd lovely women
on burros that balked Immediately
they got out of the cameras' range. If
It had been tho women I wouldn't have
been so surprised.
Mr. Earle and his wife have been
identified with nrtistlc nccnmpllnhment
in the West for so long that literally
hundreds of his fellows nie Hocking to
his assistance to male his Undertaking
the great success he has long dreamed it,
Alfred Kastner, world famous as a
harpiHt, sat him down in his shirt
sleeves to play the march for the pro
ccsBlon. Person after person wns
pointed out to me who "had come to
help Mr. Enrle" with the sets, the
lighting, the costumes und any amount
of technical detail.
May too many cooks not spoil the
broth !
Choose French Circus for Film
The "Cirque PInder," at Lo Havre,
Franre, has been chosen by John S.
Robertson as the French clicus to be
shown in "Love's Boomerang," adapted
from Dion Cnlthrop's story, "Per
petua." Mr, Robertson, nnd his com
pany of cinema playeraiwill go to Le
Havre soon to make the scenes. Ann
Forrest, recently arrived In London
from Hollywood, will pUrfY .the-leading
roie, ana unvia roweii w De me lead
LONG ISLAND
What Your Favorite
Film Stars Are Doing
Ethel Clayton, who has completed
"Exit the Vamp." will start work soou
on "Tho Crndlc," an adaptation of the
stnge play from the French of Eugene
Brleux. The continuity Is by Olgn
Prlntzlau, nnd Thompson Buchanan
will supervise the production.
Jack Mullwll has been engaged to
play Joe, the leaUing man's role In
the Rex Ingram production of "Turn
to the Right." Other members of the
cast selected so far arc Alice Terry, who
wns the Eugenie Grnndct of "The Con
quering Power" nnd the Marguerite
Laurler of "The Four Horsemen of the
Apocalypse"; Edward Connelly and
Raymond Untton.
Bert Iytoll led a group of actors in
nn attack last week on n lire that
started in the cafe opposite Metro
studios in Hollywood, Calif. He used
the fire extinguisher, Gnreth Hughes
and George D. Baker handled the hose
and Viola Dana, Alice Lake nnd Alice
Terry salvaged n stock of food.
Duslln Farnum has begun work on
his first stai ring picture under his new
arrangement at tho Fox Hollywood
studio. It is an unnamed story by E.
Lloyd Sheldon and Is being directed by
Bernnrd Durning. Mnry Thurman Is
leading woman, nnd others in the cast
Include Philo McCullough. Frnnkie Lee.
Hnrry Dunkliison, William Lovvry and
Edwin Tilton.
Charles J. Brabln, the director, got
back from his honeymoon after his
marriage, to Thcda Bara rccentlv and
Immediately began work on the adapta
tion of n story for his next Fox pro
Unction. It will ho n special in which
Estclle Taylor will have a leading role.
Answers to Questions
From Movie Fans
AUOIE Billie Burke has red hair.
Is that all you want to know about
her? There I a lot more to bo told
Of course, I get tired. Is there nny
ono who does not? Llla Lee played
Daisy 0born in "Midsummer Mad
ness." OLIVER -Eric Von Strohelm is mar
ried to Valerie de Germonprez. Doris
Kenne is starring on the rood at present
in "Romance," n stage play. She is
married to Hasil Sydney.
HONOHINE Tully Mnrhnll was an
actor on the legitimate stnge before
going into pictures. You win. Glad.vs
Walton Is appearing in "The Last
Wultz," un operettu by Oscar Straus.
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JANE NOVAK
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CONWAY TEARLE
In "BOflETY S.VOIIN"
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HAZEL DAWN
In "DEVOTION"
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BEBE DANIELS
In "THE MAItril HAltR"
CONFESSIONS
OF A STAR
As Told to
INEZ KLUMPH
THE STORY BEGINS
icllh the Jarly days in the old Fine
Arts studio in California, when Col
leen Moore, the Gish gtrls, llcssle
Love and a host of others were not
much more than extra girls. Diana
Cheyne relates the tale; she begins
with the day In the studio when she
and Isabel Heath, not stars then as
they arc now, were sitting on the
stairs when a strange man came into
the studio and looked at them. The
cameraman called them down to
meet him, and it proved the turn
ing point in Isabel's life. He was
Phil Orancy, a famous director from
the eastern studios, and he taught
Isabel to be the first of the screen s
"baby vamps," and engaged her for
such a part in a photoplay he was
producing.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER X
Ml
GORHAM, ns I have said, wns
frankly curious about the movies.
Ho'd heard a lot of gossip about the
people who made them, and, llko most
people, had believed It all.
I defended them, of course.
"But you won't deny that Leonard
Thajer Is a pretty bad lot," he urged.
"Why, I've heard that his wife had
to leave him because he was actunlly
brutal to her; a chap I know who
knows her well told mc that she got her
divorce on a clnlm of non-support
simply because she didn't wnnt to cause
any more talk than wns necessary, and
because she didn't really wnnt to make
things hard for him."
"Yes, I know that's what she said,"
I answered. "But this Is what really
happened. She wanted to leave him
because a man who holds un influen
tial position in one of the producing
companies hnd fallen in love with her
and told her that, if she'd divorce her
husband and marry him, he would make
her one of the biggest stars In tho busi
ness. Leonard Thayer had adoicd her
from the day when he saw her playing
In n stock company In n little town nnd
took her out nnd gave her a chance in
pictuies. Why he taught her ever thing
she knows. And when she told him she
wanted n divorce, he let her get one.
"But he btlll loved her, nnd he used
to go every night to her favorite res
taurant, after she left him, and order
dinner for two, nud sit there hoping
that she would come In nnd join him,
as she used to do when they were work
ing (ft different studios, and he could
say, 'Your dinner is waiting for you,
dear.' But she never did, nnd now
she's married to her new husband nud
Is mnklng 11 perfect mess of her first
picture, because she hasn't got Lconnrd
Thayer to help her. They say that if
she wants to succeed she 11 have to send
for him, and every one's wondering If
she'll do It. It would be just llko her
nnd just like him to go, too ! '
Mr. Gorhnm seemed to be convinced,
but he asked 1110 about a lot of other
rumori that he hod heard, most of them
quite baseless, some of them true. Was
Slary Pickford really unhnpp.v ? What
about the story that Thcdu Ilarn was
born in the shadow of the Sphinx?
"Oh, that's absolutely untrue she
was born in Ohio!" I exclaimed. "A
press agent made It up one dny when
he was haul up for a story nnd nobody
was more surprised than ho was when
people believed it. So, then, the peo
ple wio were pushing her got her to
burn a lot of Incense nnd wear queer
things nnd net peculiar whenever she
was interviewed she is amused nt the
whole thing, but, of course, if that's
what the public wonts she's willing to
give It to them."
We sat tlicre and talked until the
guests began to arrive for the dance,
and all the time, whether I was speak
ing to Mrs. Gorham or her husband,
I was conscious of Keith Gorham's
eyes, fixed Intently on me.
I don't like to remember that dance.
I'd expected to have a wonderful time,
becnuse as it was given for Keith, who
had just come on from the East to visit
his mint, the guests were nil young
people. And for o while I did enjoy
it; I had more partners Minn there were
dances, nnd during the intermissions
tlicre wete always lots of young mpn
talking to me.
But nftcr a while T noticed thnt the
girls were avoiding me. I'd heen In-
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troduccd to nil of them, and they'd
spoken nicely enough to me, but they ,
just seemed to drift nwny from where I
happened to be. And ono girl snld,
"Look out for your nice fiance, Louise;
the vnmpire'll get hlra!" and waved her
fan in my direction.
I had just been dancing with Keith
Gorhnm; I wns glad of that, because I
felt that I knew him better than I did
nny of the others. And I naked hlia
to take me out to tho terrace, where It
was cooler ; It seemed to mc that I
couldn't stand it nnothcr moment In
there, where I suddenly felt that all the
girls who were grouped together, whis
pering and laughing, were making fun
of mc.
It was better out on the tcrrnee, with
star-jowoled sky above, nnd the mur
muring sen berovv. I stood there In the
shadow of the great urn where Keith
Gorham hnd been standing when I first
saw him, nnd tried just to think of how
gorgeous the night was, and not re
member the girls inside.
And then n voice enme up to me from
the garden just over tho low wall on
which I leaned. It was a girl's voice,
Binug nnd self-satisfied.
"Well, probablv, Mrs. Gorham hd
a reason for nsking her, but mamma
said she certainly couldn't understand
it. And she told mo barely to acknowl
edge the Introduction and not encourage
the girl to feel thnt she knew me t
all ; people like that always impose on
you so. you know ! And she's just t :
common little movie actress, acting in,''
those nvvful slnpstick comedies. I hope .
Mrs. Gorhnm didn't halve plo served 8t
dinner if she did, the girl probably
dodged when she bow It coming, just
instinctively!"
I felt absolutely nfiamo with anger. 1
I would have jumped over thnt low wall
and faced thnt girl if Keith Gorhnm,
his hand wnrm on my bare arm, hadn't
caught hold of me und stopped me.
"Walt n minute, Diana she doesn't
understand doesn't know you " I
hardly knew what he was saing. I
only knew thnt his deep voice wns very
friendl , nnd thnt he was trying to show
me that he didn't feel as they did.
I turned nnd faced him. Ills face
wns a white blur In tho starlight, but
Uie mngnctism of his eyes held me, even
though I barely saw them. I tried
hard not to lose my self-control, but
thnt girl's words hod hurt me horribly,
nnd u moment later I covered my face
with my hnnds and didn't try to keep
back the sobs.
Even as I did It, I felt his hands on
mv shoulders, nnd heard him say,
"Don t, dear, It Isn't worth It."
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