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may have come to in regard to the popular little star. My story is merely upon my personal knowledge of Clara.
I HAD only seen her in one picture before she played in "It," but the roguish face and intelligent acting delighted me. Paramount bought the title of my story "It," which came out in the Cosmopolitan, and it was arranged that I should write an entirely' new one for Qara under I bat title in which the characters should be reading that magazine and wondering if they had "It." Clara was to express the mysterious quality — and believe me, she did ! We met for the first time in Mr. Schulberg's office.
(Above) On the "It" set where the fine friendship between the woman of England and the girl from Brooklyn was formed. Clara was a little suspicious of Mrs. Glyn's English reserve at first— but it soon wore off.
Clara was hatless, her flaming head tied up with some kind of scarf. She was frightfully dressed. This was the more remarkable because every little extra in the studios seems to have some clear idea of the "note" of the moment. But in spite of shocking clothes and ridiculous scarf, Clara exuded immense attraction. Her large, lovely eyes flashed with life, her tiny figure seemed all alive with a desire to go, just as race horses strain before starting their race. She expressed vitality. She talked in the toughest vocabulary I had ever heard in the film colony ! but it was apt and very funny.
WE had a long chat afterwards in my office, and I began to have an impression of her life. She was perfectly genuine, and did not pretend to have come from anywhere grand, but just from the poorest class. This naturalness drew me at once, then I saw the pathos always lurking in her great big eyes.
She seemed to have no memories of a home, or a loving mother's care. It appeared that she was just a waif of fortune with nothing to lean upon but her own talent and scintillating fascination.
As we talked I realized how intelligent her mind was with almost no education ; she saw at once every point I wanted her to bring out in the new picture we were going to make together.
She was a little suspicious at first. She had not met
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