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One Extra Girl
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the one I had been seeking, I thought to myself, as I asked her: "It isn't 'just fun' for you, then, like it is for some people who play small parts, is it ?"
""No, indeed!" was the quick reply, and it was accompanied with a sort of a wistful smile. "You see, I have a little apartment in upper Manhattan with my mother, and when one has to meet the landlady regularly with one's rent, it doesn't leave much time for playing before the camera 'just for fun.' I think that those girls and young men who come to this and other studios to work, when they don't really have to, shouldn't be hired. They till the places which ought to go to the people who are depending on this work for a living, and I have seen so many girls turned away from the studio who really needed the money that I have come to have a firm dislike for the other class."
"But isn't the work fascinating enough to draw one to it, even if money didn't enter into the bargain?" I protested.
"I don't think I'd say that," Miss Cloak answered, and from her manner I could judge that she was really quite as much of a business woman as she
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Miss Cloak had been skating on the p Central Park, New York City, just fore this picture was snapped.
was an actress ; "but it is really very much more interesting than any other kind of work a girl can do. I go home every night very tired, but I hardly can wait until morning to get to the studio again, if I know that I am to play a You see, I am never certain of just what the next day will bring. I may or may not be called on to workin a scene — but I always live in hopes. I have done practically all my work at the Universal studio, for I believe that the best way to break into the ranks of the regular players— and that is my ambition just now — is to concentrate my efforts in one place. All the directors have my telephone number, and call me up whenever they need me. It's just a trip across the ferry to the interurban line, and only a few minutes' ride to the studio, so I can get there much quicker than the girls who live in other parts of the city." "Have you ever had any important parts ?" was my next question.
"Xo, I really haven't. They are mostly small roles in the picture, characters which have nothing to do with the story, but which often allow me to appear in scenes alone for several sec
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