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stage creations, in none of which did the greatest living actress reveal a complete grasp of the technic of the newer art. Madame has not hesitated to proclaim that such art as she has been permitted to reveal on the screen could not by any stretch of the imagination be regarded as on a par with that which gave her worldwide renown.
Lawrence Trimble, who is now Miss Turner's business associate and co-producer, is a unique figure in the film world, in that he not only had no association with the speaking stage, but the purpose for which he entered the film studio has never been accomplished. That Mr. Trimble is to-day celebrated as a producer and author is due to one of those strange developments for which the history of moving pictures is noted.
Born in New England, Trimble revealed ability as a writer at an early age, and he sold stories to the magazines and newspapers, earning in this way a fair income, which, hov/ever, was not sufficient to induce extraordinary effort. He knew how to coax the pot boiler, and his "copy" was invariably accepted by the first recipient, but the checks were more often than not written in a single figure, a fact that convinced Trimble that he lacked most of all a big subject with v/hich to specialize. With this idea in mind, one day Trimble was impressed with the notion that he could greatly increase his income through evolving interesting stories about the motion-picture industry from various angles, and as he lived in the City of Churches, he sallied forth to the Vitagraph Studio, little dreaming that instead of writing about photoplays, he was destined to become a potent subject for others writers to criticize or eulogize, usually the latter.
Trimble has never had the chance to write the