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— more than romantically poor. At thirteen I worked as a child’s cloak-model, in Harry Kitzinger’s, Fourteenth and Fifth avenue, for seven dollars a week. A salesman introduced me to Walter Kingsley, press agent, who got me eighteen dollars playing one of the unborn children for Winthrop Ames in ‘The Blue Bird.’ Then I went to the brief ‘Folies Bergere,’ and when that broke I went to the fashionable boarding school at Larchmont.
“A charming, benevolent gentleman was instrumental in my going there. And I was very grateful to him — oh, very! But he was forty-two — and I was sixteen. You see, even then I loved youth.
“My photograph presently appeared in the Green Book and anxious mothers wanted to know if I was the sort of girl to be going to the same school with their daughters.
“But I left the Larchmont school without being fired,” she smiled. “In three years I came out a dreamer, a bit bookish. I wanted to be a librarian — a Belle Green sort of librarian.
“Yes, I wanted to be a librarian — till one day I walked down Fifth avenue and saw all the beautiful clothes.
“I decided to have those clothes — somehow. But how? The stage was the only quick way. And I wanted to wear those clothes when I was still young. I would be an actress.
“I told a friend I would be an actress; and he told John Drew.
“ ‘I can give her only twenty-five a week and she will have to furnish her own costumes,’ said John Drew.
“So I went into the ‘Follies’ chorus for fifty a week and Zieggy furnished the costumes.