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60 IT TOOK NINE TAILORS
more than a walk-on— just a fellow in a cutaway who was supposed to stand around and look like an ambassador or something. But it was a part with John Barrymore, and that was something I could talk about when I went looking for other jobs.
On the first day of shooting, when Barrymore came onto the set, he saw me standing there with my profile turned toward the camera. "Who is that fellow?'* he demanded. "I don't like his face."
"Why?" asked Thompson.
"Don't give me any of your silly persiflage," replied Jack. "He looks too much like me. He will confuse the plot."
There was nothing Thompson could do about it. He came over to me and told me that he was sorry but he would not be able to use me in the picture. My disappointment probably showed in my face. I not only needed the work, but was losing the opportunity of playing with a big star.
As I walked off the set, Barrymore stopped me, then leaned over and muttered in my ear, "Go upstairs and put a full beard on that kisser of yours."
So I played in the Barrymore picture for three days in a beard that made me look like a cartoonist's idea of an anarchist.
In 1916 we extras and bit players began to speculate on all the picture making out in Hollywood, but nobody believed that anything important could be happening way out there. After all, the only place to find actors was on Broadway, and no self-respecting actor would be caught any farther from Broadway than the Union Hills Studios in New Jersey, which was considered a distant hinterland, tolerated only because of the peculiarities of motionpicture making.
A few big stars like Pickford and Fairbanks and Chaplin journeyed to Hollywood because the producers tempted them with fantastic salaries; but we were sure that their hearts were really on Broadway and that eventually they would return from the sticks and force the movie companies to follow them back to the rightful center of moviedom. When Doug Fairbanks, after mak