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By ELIZABETH PELTRET
showed the traces of a make-up hastily removed, making her look, somehow or other, like a mischievous elf from a Maxfield Parrish picture.
"I believe," she said, "in, as nearly as possible, absolute realism when it comes to getting atmosphere for a picture. When we were making 'The Sawdust Ring,' I spent three weeks with a circus. The first few days I enjoyed, but after that I grew dreadfully tired. We were always on the go, moving all the time, and it wasn't very pleasant to get up and catch trains at any old hour of the night as a regular thing.
"And it was rather funny, too. I dreaded going, because I thought, in a vague way, the same thing of circus people that some from the outside seem to think of the people of the screen. Of course, when I mentioned this to professional friends, I was laughed at. They explained that there is more devotion to the family shown among circus people than in any other class, and I found it so. I grew to love some of the 'cooch' dancers . . . they were the dearest girls . . .
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Miss Love was featured as a "Griffith find"; played opposite Bill Hart m her second picture, "The Aryan"; was with Douglas Fairbanks in her Tiext two, "The Good-Bad Man" and "Reggie Mixes In" — and in her fifth picture, "Sister of Six," she became a star
"And now we are going to London on location for the exteriors of 'The Old Curiosity Shop.' We'll probably have to come back here for the interiors ; I've heard that the studios in England are impossible !"
Having spent almost her entire life in Los Angeles, Bessie Love has seen comparatively little of the world outside the Western city. But. unlike most professionals, she loves to write letters, and she has carried on an extensive correspondence with numerous friends, relatives, fans and exhibitors. She did not make her first visit to New York until she was an established star.
"But I found that I had friends, not only in New York, but all along the way," she said.
"Of course, most of them knew me very much better than I knew them . . . isn't it peculiar how well you grow to know people from just seeing them on the screen?
"In connection with that, an exhibitor, visiting here, told me ratlier an amusing thing. He said that he had been showing Bill Hart's pictures in his theatef for so long that Bill Hart became to him the most familiar figure in the world. And then, several days ago, he came face to face with Bill in the lobby of the Alexandria.
" 'Do you know, I was absolutely offended with him for a moment because he hadn't recognized me,' said this exhibitor. {Continued on page 86)
(Seventeen)