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The Ince Studios
Raymond B. West, first assistant producer to Mr. Ince, directing one of the big scenes
from a platform.
watch is kept of all the dogs which act in pictures to prevent their wandering into the midst of the tribe.
This was the first thought that occurred to the mind of Billie Burke when she arrived and inspected Inceville, for, as every one knows, one of her most valued possessions is "Ziegy," a little bundle of fluff which is called a doggie by some, and which was given her by her noted husband, Flo Ziegfeld, of "Ziegfeld Follies'' fame.
When I met Miss Burke, directly after leaving the Indian village, I subtly suggested the matter to her, and she at once became awfully serious.
"He won't get out of my sight a minute while I'm here," she said positively. "A nice, tender little doggie like 'Ziegy' would be too dainty a morsel, wouldn't he?"
The idea was too harrowing after I had looked at the discussed subject, so I changed the course of the conversation by asking the bromide question :
"Do you really like the films better than the legitimate?"
"I love them, and I only wish I could have had the experience they have given me years ago. It teaches one so much about acting to see one's self on the screen. There are so many little mannerisms that one never thinks of. Also one sees so many expressions which she wishes she hadn't."
Others at Inceville had told me all about Miss Burke's triumph in "Peggy," her first screen play, but I decided to learn what she thought about it, so I prompted her by saying: "It must have been like a first night in the theater to go into the projection and see yourself on the screen for the first time."
"A first night wasn't a patch of it," she declared emphatically. "It was perfectly weird to sit in the dark and see myself flutter about the screen. I had a real case of stage fright all by myself in the dark."