Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1915)

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EDITH STOREY, TEE NATURE GIRL 93 \ career on the legitimate stage, but no one wants to hear abont it — it is all so very wee and insignificant. ' • ' ' Indeed it is not, I assure you, Miss Storey, ' ' I insisted, "and I, for one, am just yearning to know." "Well/' continued the young lady, almost diffidently, "I began my stage career as a child actress with Miss Eleanor Rob son in 1 Audrey. ' I was just , eight years old at that time. Later I was the little Prin I can express in mere words. From my employers down to the humblest ■ extra ' among my associates we are all like a happy family. I feel that it is a matter for congratulation to know that I am working among ladies and gentlemen— I mean ladies ar«d gentlemen in the truest and best sense of the phrase. 1 ' Of course ' ' — a n d here the little lady looked at me earnestly, with a wistful look in her eyes — ' ' the associations of any kind of stage career are not always the most pleasant. But I make the best of everything — good, bad and indifferent — and then, you know, the pleasant things about a screen career so far outnumber the unpleasant ones that one has very little to grumble about." "Was your first dramatic work in the 'movies'?" I asked, showing the interest that I felt. "No," replied Miss Storey, "I began my SiiJW