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When the girls were little, they lived, as you may know, in three rooms of a house in Brooklyn, said residence lent them by a friend, rent free. They were hard put to it to heat the three rooms, feed their faces and clothe their growing backs. Peg will tell you the details of those days with a wink and a shrug and some slight yearning for the good old days when a dollar was a rarity and what it bought rang the bell for a national holiday. Many women would have vapwred with sentimentality over the situation. They would have been soft with the offspring, innocent victims of hard times. Or they would have wallowed in self-pity, later to grow into, bitterness for life was like that. Not Peg. She bought forty-nine cent panties, dollar shoes, ninety-eight-cent dresses and was an authority on basement sales the length and breadth of the borough. And she probably said to the girls what she now says when passing cakes to elegant guests at elegant Talmadge teas, "Take it; it's too good for you." Money or no money, "every afternoon, sayr Peg, the three girls were scrubbed and cleaned, inducted into starched white clothes and set out in a row to dry. They had two sets of friends. Muddy, morning friends and one or two starched friends for afternoon. "I'd hear 'em," said Peg, "when they'd go out in the afternoons, all starched and stiff. Some of the kids would call 'em and they'd say 'Oh, my mother won't allow us to play with you.' An hour ago they'd been thick as thieves, the brats! " No, no sentimentality about Peg. "I was married," she told me, "to the {perfect gentleman tyfje. You know, the kind who supports his family by dropping a quarter in the meter every now and then. But always there with a tip of his hat to a lady. You can't have everything." No sentimentality and yet the three little Talmadge girls never went without bulgy stockings, glittering trees and other traces of Santa Glaus at Christmas times. There were always candles on the birthday cakes and the Easter bunny never passed them by. "Things were cheap in those days," Peg said. " Dolls for fifty cents and all kinds of toys for ten cents and a quarter. Money doesn't make for happiness. We were just as happy then as we are now. We got more kick out of Norma 's first fifty a week than we have ever got out of sums ten times that amount. We didn't know what to do with it. Finally decided to buy phonograph records; and then nearly died for fear someone would scratch the damned things." Peg's vocabulary would make a small boy's back-fence literature look like a first grade primer and the language of pugilists die of pernicious anemia. But no one objects to the profanities of Peg. They are pungent and racy. They are rich and early-English. Heir of Rabelais that she is, there is something salty and of the earth earthy about Peg, She is so utterly and unequivocally what she is. She doesn't change her tune for the Prince of Wales or Lady This-and-That any more than she does for Bull Montana or .''ilice White. And if you don't like what she is, you can choose the nearest exit and no feelings hurt. Peg is resjxjnsible for many things aside from the Talmadge sisters, of whom she says, "Why to have daughters instead of sons?" She has been accused of supplying many of the wise cracks for "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." She and Anita Loos did some European traveling together; and the small Anita may well have gathered up the censorable pearls that dropped from Peg's uninhibited lips with the force and rapidity of Niagara. Most mothers, modern and obsolete, could take lessons from Peg. Where her girls go, there Peg goes also. They won't have it any other way. When one sister goes in one direction and the others stay behind, Peg becomes a bone pulled by the one taking the longest trip. At the present writing she is in Nice with Constance, who is making a production there arranged for her by Joe Schenck. \^'hich does, or should disf)el the rumors that Mr. Schenck is gunning for the Talmadges. On the morning of their departure I was sharing a trunk-top with Peg. Norma, Natalie and Buster Keaton all phoned her from Agua Caliente, They were week-ending there because Peg had told them she wouldn't have them hanging around the train saying farewells and telling lies. They all pleaded with her, long distance, not to stay away long. They wanted to know . how they were going to get along without her. They made plans to get over there. It is on Peg's shoulder that Buster Collier weeps when he is temporarilv dethroned from the Constance affections. When he, half in fun and perhaps wholly in earnest, strikes an attitude and asks Peg for her daughter's hand, she says, "Take it, what good '11 it do you?" If Peg could ever get her cold broad humor across on either stage or screen, the entire Talmadge clan, including Joe Schenck and Buster Keaton, could retire on the proceeds. Nor is this all. Peg is business manager, advisory committee and final say-so on all contracts and propositions brought up for discussion. Peg says the yea or the nay. Constance, the youngest and perhaps the dearest of the three girls, never sees her own checks or her own contracts. Peg does. A year and more ago it was Peg who created the trust fund for Constance that enables her to live for the rest of her life just as she is living now whether she ever works again or not. It is Peg who says, "No more comedies for Constance," Peg who pleaded with Joe Schenck to buy "Sadie Thompson" for Constance. Peg to whom Mr. Schenck cables new plans and propositions and to whom he admits he was wrong about Constance and she was right. Why wait for people to die to give them their just due? Not that Peg's demise is in sight. Far from it, and God forbid! She can keep going better and longer than you and I. Not maybe. But I am minded of Mrs. Pickford and the appreciations, eulogies and recognitions that have filled the press since her going. She was a p)ower and ah influence. Not sufficiently realized until her power and influence were, actively, at an end. Peg is a power and an influence, too. As Charlotte Pickford was back of Mary, so Peg has been back of Natalie, Norma and Constance. Besides which she is a character on her own. Quite apart from her three "brats." She isn't the Talmadge girls' mother. She is Peg. And that's achievement, all factors duly considered. 74