Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1919)

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Photoplay Magazine "I was getting along very well and it was just the sort of work I liked best when the chance came to go into the comedies. I' needed the money so I accepted the offer. "I shall always be grateful for the years I spent in comedy. I attained success and I made money but it wasn't the sort of work I liked. "Then came the bathing suit era and I was marked for the sacrifice. After that I spent a great deal of my time in bathing suits. I was in the water most of the day. This kept up for a long time. "Then one day I said to myself — 'Mary, the only thing you're getting out of this work is wet. Are you going to play the tanks all your life?' " 'No,' I s a i d to myself, and I began to think Mary TWurman and Mae Marsh in "Spotlight Sadie." "Then I said to myself: 'Mary, are you going to play the tanks all your life?'" "It's a long story," said Mary. "Let's begin at the beginning — but remember, it was not because I was getting fat. "Some people have drama wished on them. I had mine washed on me. In that room lies a great chest and in that chest, wrapped in frankincense and myrrh and a few moth balls, are the relics of my former grandeur — to wit, two dozen assorted bathing suits. I hope never again to look a bathing suit in the face. "Possibly you never noticed it, but comedy never came natural to me. I had to force my comedy. I became a comedian for the same reason that Rockefeller founded the Standard Oil; I needed the money. "When I first came to California, I liked the country so well that I stayed here until I was just about broke. It was then suggested to me that I might make a living in the pictures. Well, I had always been an actress at heart. "I had always "dreamed of going on the stage and the proposition appealed to me. So I started out to get a little career for myself. "My first picture was called 'The Spell of the Poppy.' It was a two-rceler and the director was D. W. Griffith. "I had a good part in Douglas Fairbank's first picture, also in l)e Wolf Hopper's first screen offering. of a lost art : my dramatic .ambitions. ''So at last the time came when comedy no longer appealed to me. In my case it was just one bathing suit after another. One morning I decided to take the big step. "I went to the studio and quit. It was then or never. It was a leap in the dark and I don't know yet just how it will turn out. However I weighed all my chances first. In comedy (Continued on page 131)