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■ i |i,\ are .ill w i ong about Mi< kie iround the studio thinks that Mickie less, happ\ go-luck) idlei who drif to the studio and just sorl of ma thing up as he goes along.
I used to think so myself unti were mai i ied.
" rhe fact is that Mickie is doing 1 hardest work when he appears to be pla\ ing
"I can always tell at home when he is working out a big scene in his mind. Our home life straightwa) takes on an atmosphere of jazz and excitement.
"Mickie whuis me a round to jazz emporiums at loud and unusual hours of the night. W e dance at ro.nl houses and Mickie
to the best fox trotters and we whirl thru a round oi pleasure until 1 am positively dazed and dizzy.
"1 have learned from e\ perience to know that at these times. Mickie is working out some big situation in a big story.
"There are many minds — big, creative minds which work like this.
"No doubt there are some creative writers who need quiet and
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solitude: but the Mickie Neilans of this world nt;<<\ the stimulus of motion and excitement. It seen rouse their thoughts and stimulate their imaginations — just as a race-horse needs another horse pace-maker.
"Mickie very seldom talks about his pictures al home. I am glad he doesn't. It would be miserable to have a home life made up of Kleig lights and bab) spots and scenarios.
"Sometimes he brings up the subject of some play and discusses the situation. In the earlier days of our married life I used to torture my brain trying to help him with these situations. I know better now. 1 know from experience that he never really talks of the play he is thinking about. When he talks of one. I know that he is working out the details of other one. So 1 have learned that the way 1 can best help the family fortunes is to sleep with my bool my bedside like a fireman and be ready to go tearing around the dance halls and the jazz places while im talented husband wrestles with the muse.
"Sometimes it takes Mickie a long tithe to work out a story. 1 know that he had the idea of "The {Continued on penn S4 |
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