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Bv MAUDE CHEATHAM
ahagar" sine was to that mother whose nieiiiory she adores and is to the people from her island who seek her pictnres in American theaters.
I saw it all as we were sitting in her bungalow dressing-room, where her perfectly molded features, masses of glossy hair and fair complexion were enhanced by the artistic decorations in soft shades of orchid. These bungalows arc all the fashion at the Hollywood studios, for the idea, started several years ago by Mary I'ickford's cunning bird-cage in the corner of the f.asky lot, has met with favor. At the Fox studio, each star has a jirctty grey bungalow set in a lovely garden, and Eileen, now a Fox star, has in hers an effective setting for her daintiness, which does not destroy the glamour of romance.
Her humor is of the quiet kind, and the she looks the part of the peaches and cream girl, she has a remarkably sane balance, governed by a happy view])oint of life, with a safe margin of spirit — when the occasion demands.
"Being with Mr. Fairbanks was a very wonderful experience," Miss Percy was. telling me, "and I shall never be grateful enough for all I learned with him, but I found it a pretty big jump from The Follies, to playing lead with one of the foremost film-stars. I became discouraged after completing five pictures and decided to give them up. I was only sixteen and had not yet foimd my bearing since losing Mother and tho 1 had my sister, Thel
At the studio they will tell you that Eileen is a general favorite — never indulging in temperament and always being on time. Above, another camera study, and left, Eileen at the shore
ma, with me, I nearly died of loneliness. "Oh, of course, I came to my senses." she went on, "and I suddenly realized that to succeed I must get right down to hard work and seriously study this work. The screen is illuminating, for it reaches the thought behind the action and this is, after all, tlie very point on which the finely balanced ball of success is poi.sed. If the foundation is not true and sincere, the w-hole thing crumbles — , this is so with everything, motion pictures and life itself.
".■\s soon as I looked it squarely in the face everything seemed to come to me in the most satisfactory way and now I am fired with a big ambition to make a worthy name for myself. I seem destined for comedy — farce comedy, so I presume that will be my forte."
After i)laying in several pictures with Sessue I layakawa, where her <lainty fairness made an excellent foil for the Japanese artist. Eileen was (Continued on page 100)
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