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cidents so prevalent in our lives, to which we are blind because of their proximity — not the great studio of nature and attractive flashes of happy, innocent children and romping animals.
I knew there were such stories galore. I had read many of them myself. And then and there was born a determination to screen the wholesome topics and shun the sordid and sensational.
Life itself is a drama — one in which we all play a part — and I felt sure that my friends would enjoy the sort of entertainment which I had in mind in their recreation hours. Human nature is the most attractive thing imaginable, and, therefore, I felt sure a humaninterest comedy drama with pretty settings would be pleasing. Thus was born "Persuasive Peggy," my first offering under the Mayfair banner.
"Persuasive Peggy" is an "honest-to-goodness," trueto-life story, showing how a sweet young bride ties her blustering boy husband to her chariot wheels in so diplomatic a way that he still believes himself the master. It depicts the first year of married life — the hardest one to live through without acquiring scars. One by one the young wife places the bricks of faith, consideration, cooperation and understanding in her little dream house of matrimonial happiness. And love, of course, is the corner stone. In the end she and her boy husband learn that home is where love abides.
Of course, my pictures must be entertaining as well. In every case the story must have an original plot, pretty frocks must be in evidence, and pleasing people cast in the roles to make the offering attractive. But it need not contain anything not wholesome and refreshing. The beautiful in motion Dictures has enormous undeveloped possibil
Friend husband is learning never to be surprised, whatever happens.
ities, and I hope to exhaust every one of them before I say "die."
Romance will always be present, for it is romance that makes life worth while. When we do not crave romance, we have lost the very spirit of the drama of life. I And love — love must always be portrayed as an ethereal and elusive thing, but, nevertheless, it must always be there, for it is love that makes the world go round, whether it is the love of mother, child or sweethearts. And so, dear friends, these plans are the realization of my dreams. Like the artist, poet and musician, I purpose in my humble way, through the wonderful medium of the screen, to bring to you in your recreation hour all the beauty I am able to glean in stories, acting, frocks and settings. I hope that many stars may join me in this rebellion against the sordid and sensational in picture plots. If we unite in a determination not to appear in bad plays, the question of censoring will be settled. And I hope my pioneering may furnish box-office demonstration that my theory is sound.
"Jackpots" likes to have Peggy talk over her troubles with him.