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H^Miss Evans satirizes the stories of our screen stars' success
its way towards one of the buttons on his desk. Mother, at the same time, picked up a heavy bronze statue. Mr. Gluck, never a very strong man, fainted. When, later, he recovered, the contract making me his leading woman for the next five years at an increasing salary was all drawn up and was lying on his desk all ready for his signature.
It is such thoughtfulness as this that has made mother the most famous of all "Movie Mamas." There isn't a producer in pictures today who will not pay tribute to her great
want the world, that is to say, my fans, to know that every picture which leaves my studios is autographed personally by me" says Sylvester Simplex. "It is a sacred duty."
sagacity, her strength of character, and her unerring aim. A Talk about Lydia Lukewarm
IL/ydia Lukewarm, the intrepid serial heroine, is courage itself before the camera, but when confronted with pen and ink is somewhat at a loss. That is why we will let her girlhood chum write for her :
You ask me to tell you something about Lyd. Well, it's been nearly twenty years since she left town with the circus, and I remember at the time I was so young that Papa and Mama didn't like to talk about her in my presence. But I have hunted up a great-aunt of mine who used to go to school with her, and she has told me all she can, which is enough, heavens knows.
It seems that Lukewarm is her real name — at least Lukewarm was the name her father took, among other things. Theirs was the first family in town — as you come in. Lyd was the favorite of her parents — she was always trying to run away with a circus. No matter how many times the circuses sent her home, she was not discouraged ; she always ran away again. It was her will power that made her what she is today. You may know what that is ; I don't. For five years she persevered. By the time the circus finally decided it might as well let her join up she was a little heavy for the trapeze work, so they let her pose in the living statues act.
After this her family cast her off. Lydia learned one pose — it was the top statue in a group called "The Coming of Spring." One night while the group was posing a movie director was there. She would. The director went up to her afterwards and said — this speech has been quoted in all Lyd's interviews since — "Little girl, I don't know your name ; but I have been looking for you for years and years. Anyone who is so insensible to danger is [Continued on page 95]
d,"Litt!c girl, I don't know your name," said the director who discovered Lydia Lukewarm, "But I have been looking for you for years and year s."
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