Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Aug 1919)

Before and After Taking “■^rou see, Miss Gish, the magazine editor wants us to tell Y him what you and your sister do when you are not working.” Thus spoke the hireling in the press department to the “Little Disturber.” “That’s easy for you,” said Miss Dorothy, “just tell him we go to bed and try to rest up for the next day.” “But he wouldn’t believe that; he’d think we were giving him press stuff. You know the public thinks you only work about one day a month.” “Well, I love that. I work just as hard as any other girl who makes her own living, and when Saturday noon comes around I’m right there at the window for my little pay checki And I dont get time and a half for overtime, either.” “But dont you do something at home— cooking, or feeding the chickens, or something like that?” “Not for a minute. I’ve all I want to do without trying to cook. Besides that. I’m a poor cook. We have a hired girl, or I mean a maid, who does the cooking, and we' cant keep chickens. Come again.” “But you know how to do those things, don’t you ?” “You just bet I do. I’ve done them.” “Well, that’s good enough. We’ll write the story and take some pictures and send ’em out anyway, and show the people who dont believe you do anything that you are pretty busy.” “But how’ll you get the pictures ?” “Like all the rest of ’em get the pictures. You’ll put on the dust cap and apron and do some housework. If the maid gets mad about it we’ll tell her it’s for publicity, and Here’s a little expose of how those nice domestic scenes of stars in their homes are created. Would you believe that these pictures were faked? We-e-e-1-1 I (Fifty-four),