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Lewis Cody, H. V.
By ELIZABETH PELTRET
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experience which, he says, he would not take anything for. And then, with all of his energy, he plunged into stock, becoming actor-manager of his own company, the Cody Players, just out of New York. He had four companies before that began to tire him and then he left them to shift for themselves while he came to the Pacific coast with the Winter Garden production.
"I've been everything in the profession except a clown in a circus." and but for its being such a serious job, he might have been that too.
He fell instantly and intensely in love with Los ,-\ngeles and decided to return sometime and relain indefinite
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"Do I believe in marriage?" says Lew Cody. "Yes, indeed — for other people. I think it is a beautiful institution. But the human fgical moment that butterfly type— male or female—
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fact. Undoubtedly, Lew Cody's best work was done, not ader contract, but as a free lance, in such pictures ms the ois Weber productions "For Husbands Only," and i?orrowed Clothes" with Mrs. Chaplin. Cecil B. de lille'.s "Don't Change Your Husband " and "The Life Line," and "The I'roken P.utterfly" with Maurice fournier.
When 1 saw him at the .Alexandria, he had just j^nished his first picture made with his own company and had collaborated with his director. L. Gasnier. in the priting of the story. His second picture, he said, is to "The I'Utterfly Man" from the book by George Barr McCutcheon.
Lew Cody is, himself, very much of a "butterfly man." That is. he has the quick, volatile temperament of the artistic b'renchman who is also a natural dilettante.
"Until a year ago." he .said, "I never had any particular imbilion. 1 was conscientious enough in my work and all
that, but " He made a gesture with the hand that held
liis cigaret. Very quietly, in fact without attracting his attention |h the least, it left its holder and deposited itself on the tablecloth vhere it went on burning merrily. "(~)h. look!" I c.Nclainied, pointng rudeh-. For a moment he was decidedly puzzled; "How did that feet there :" and then, with a glance at the exquisite but empty holder, (Cot'thntcd on f<(ifir HO)
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