Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Dec 1920)

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J^ghts GLOW of fire-light in happy faces; merriment sparkling in laughing eyes; and a bond of light-hearted fellowship in the form of fairy Nabisco Sugar Wafers. Serve Nabisco with any refreshment — or serve them as the refreshment. MOTION PICTURE CLASSIC Ann Ascends I Continued from page 37) be a part of it. I love the theater and have revelled in the opportunity to see the work of some of the great artists. And there are many wonderful things to see and learn. Hut do you know that it is the 'outsider' who really knows and appreciates the best things in New York? What does the average New Yorker care about the art galleries or walking across Brooklyn Bridge at twilight or the view from the top of the Woolworth Building or plays like 'The Jest' ? "I have been living here with friends who seem to live in a mad whirl of dinners, teas, dances, shopping — going round and round in a circle and getting nowhere. They have tried to carry me along — because they think it's the only life for a young girl. But I had decided that it would never do for me and, as I expected to be here several months, engaged a room down-town in the dormitory of a girls' club — all of them girls who work and live for something besides a good time. "My philosophy of life may be a very c|ueer one," she said, "but it seems to me that youth is not the time for frivolity. Not if one is to get anything out of life worth having. It's the time to discover many wonderful things — to study, to observe, to travel — to cultivate worth-while people — to build. And then, when one is older and has learnt to discriminate and knows what one really wants most in life and has earned the right — why. then, let them 'as wants to' go ahead and frivol," she laughed ; "it's up to them ! "No. I'm too young in the business to have any theories about pictures. I'm just learning and glad of the opportunity to watch and learn. In the meantime, I'm glad I'm going back to God's beautiful country, where one can reallv live. But some day. when I have acquired much experience and a great deal nf nerve. I'm coming back to New York and haunt the offices of the Broadway managers until they offer to try me out in a stage engagement. Of course, T realize I will have a great many things to contend with, but the game would not he worth playing without them," quoth the shining Ann. The New Zealand Bushranger ( Continued from f<a(/e 22) was brought to a head when his father, a stern man, utterly forbade him to appear in an amateur performance for which he lad been rehearsing for weeks. It was the last straw. Jerome Patrick left home and answered the call of that will-o-the-wisp fame. ■ But he was willing to work hard, no false pride kept him from attaining his ambition. He was willing to do anything that was honest, providing it kept him in the theater. Thus he was a chonis man. a leader in stock, a player in the provinces, but all the time he had just one object {Continued on page 74) { Seven ty-t^co)