Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Dec 1920)

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"Bessie, Love" chaperon and perfect propriety were lurking in the immediate background. I found Bessie Love in her dressing-room, fastening at the neck a suit cut in a girlish fashion with a bolero jacket and a skirt sufficiently tight for her to feel that it was restraining, for later, she pulled it up over her knees, with a laughingly apologetic "You dont care?" and sat tailorfashion on the edge of a chaiselongue in one corner of the room. She had just finished making some tests of costume and make-up for "The Old Curiosity Shop." She came towards the door, one hand holding in place the still unfastened blouse and the other extended in the customary greeting. I was surprised that she should be so small; smaller by far than she looks to be on the screen. Her hair is dark yellow and very fine. You would notice her broad forehead and large, oval-shaped eyes BcBsie Love is tiny, delicate and appealing in appearance, but not weak. She makes you think almost irresistibly of Riley's "An Old Sweetheart of Mine" the more strongly for the slenderness of her face from her temples to her .slightly rounded chin. Her eyes and cheeks still All [ihotos Hoo\er Art Co. H i:r name is Juanita Horton. but they call her Bes. sie. Lo\e. just like that, as tho it were written with a comma. Or sometimes they pronounce it Bessie Love, as tho it were all on? word, with the accent on the last syllable. But, ln^F-'-wcr they may say it. they say it all. \o one ever thinks of abbreviating it to Bessie. She's Bessie. Love, to her father and mother, her aunts and uncles, and even her cousins, many of whom she has never seen. If her name is to be abbreviated, they will tell you, let it be abbreviated to Love; "Miss Love" for strangers. One fancies that the masculine stranger, at least, must have an irresistible desire to take her hand and say. "Little girl, let me protect you," this in spite of capable-looking eyes that, most unmistakably, have .strength of character behind them, Bessie Love is not weak. Tiny, she is, delicate and ajipealing in ajipearance, but not weak. .She makes you think almost irresistibly of Riley's ".\n Old Sweetheart of Mine"; not .so much of any particular ver.se as of the entire poem and the s|)irit of it. You will remember "that in the beginning he spoke of spicing the good a trifle with a little dust of harm, and then in the end there proved not to be any harm at all : Bessie Love reminds one of that. You can imagine her as being slightly unconventional, hut you would also feel quite certain that a V . (SUcteen)