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he Diary of a Movie PA
By Knna Vrophater
Drawings by Wynn
Dec. 12. I take my pen in hand to.rite in my diry. After reeding my daughters articel on How I cum to be a grate Star and ma's articel on How it feels to be a famus mother. I decided that the public mite want to heer something about the old man.
Unless you are deef, dum and blind you must of heerd of my daughter Maizie Garrick tho that aint her real name by a long site. The idea is this. Her name was supose to be Garrick and my name was supose to be Garrick and one of my ancestors was supose to be an actor named Garrick, altho none of our family ever sunk so low as to be actors altho they was none to good. Anyways Maizie gets wished with the name Garrick to explane where she got her talent from, which is like me taking a chink name to explane why I got a laundry mans pig tale which I aint.
But I aint trying to get nasty or make no wiscracks about a girl wich is a good meel ticket. I am just riting this to give the grate public a low down on my home life.
Today I have gone back to work for the first time in 15 yers. I am riting fancy signatchures of Maizie's name on pictures wich is sent out to l/i wits that rite in and ask her for them. I get Si per 100 autografs, paid to me by old thunder and
ffl You have read many stories of
and by movie mothers. CI Here is the first story of a movie father.
ffl Or as Mazie Garrick's father says: "After reading my daughters articel on How I cum to be a grate Star and ma's articel on How it feel to be a famous mother, I decided that the public mite want to heer something about the old man."
lightning wich is my wife. Id rather work for strangers but Maizie and the ball and chane wich is my wife dont like me to go mixing in the studios wich is all the work there is in this dratted hole. So they have killed my ambishun.
Dec. 13. My arm paned me something terribul last nite until I thot Id die until Ben cum along. Ben is the footman and rides in the third rollsroice but he aint no swellhed but a regular he guy and knows a feller that brings it in direct on ships.
Well as I was saying my arm paned me terribul and Ben brot something along that he had for a customer and we polished off a bottle between us. Then Pete the gardner cum in and tells us that he was going to brake into the movies but he aint got no more chance than I have of braking into one of C. B. De Mille's dinner partys or "C. B." as we movie peeple call him. Dec. 15. Yesterday I didnt rite none because I got tired of taking sass from my donnerwetter wich is my wife. So I says I am going out and ern some money of my own and you can just get sombody else to sine these dam fotos if you can find anyone thatll work so cheep. So Ben gave me a coupla tall ones and says Dont forget your old friends when you get famus. So off I went to a studio with a bird by the name of
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