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I was bawled out. To-day I should have been turned out. To-day a scene with two such bHghts in it would be re-taken. But both this and the scene wherein Millie and I had made such spectacles of ourselves were allowed to pass. But I was eventually the cause of one re-take before the picture was finished and I had left the lot never to return, unwept and unmourned.
In those days each actor was supposed to keep account of what costume he had worn in what scene. The assistant director would announce that costumes worn in 'such and such a scene were to be donned for such and such a day. To be brief, akhough there were many dissenting voices, I obstinately, and in good faith, really, put on a darkish dress for a certain scene when it should have been a lightish dress. The result, as run off in the projection room, was a spectacle of me in the corridor of the school building attired in snowy white and opening the door of Bessie's room. Then — presto change — in Bessie's room in a dress that registered quite black.
I pass over the painful scene that followed. The chief thing that strikes me now as I look back over my brief career in the movies is how tolerant the industry was then compared to its cold and efficient attitude of to-day.
When Millie and I went in search of our pay at the end of the boarding-school picture, I recall clearly the face of Mr. Allen.
Millie said breathlessly, " Could I — that is to say, would you be able to — I mean, I'd like to stay on if you could use me in other pictures./'
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