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The Mutual
Admiration
Society
By
HARRY CARR
Blanche Sweet takes two pages to tell what she thinks of her husband; but Marshall Neilan heeded only two lines to tell what he feels about his wife
Left is a recent portrait of "the most extraordinary personality on the screen," Blanche Sweet. Below, as Anna Christie in O'Neill's drama of that name
AMI
Edwin Bower Hesser
I HAVE always wondered about these stars who are directed by their own husbands.
Whether at the breakfast table the lord and master tastes the coffee and says : "This is worse than your closeup in that love scene in the third reel."
Or if perhaps she waits until he gets his face iathered and he is sliding down the difficult slope north of the upper lip before she reproaches him with giving all the good scenes to the vamp lady in the picture.
Well, Blanche Sweet says not. Positively no.
Her husband is Marshall Neilan.
A great many picture experts agree with Blanche that he is the one great genius that the cinema has thus far produced.
He and Blanche have been in pictures together since the early Biograph days when she was a little dancer called in for a special scene in one of the first Griffith pictures and ""Mickie" was a boy driving an automobile.
The writers of "success stories" like to refer to Marshall Neilan as the chauffeur who became one of the greatest directors in the world. Far be it from me to crush the illusions and artistic yearnings of any gent now piloting a taxicab ; but the fact is Mickie was an actor and the ravishingly handsome young Valentino of his day on the screen while
(Eighteen >