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ELIZABETH PELTRET
“trouper” worthy of the name to quit in the face of an audience.
At the same time — “I cant get my mind on anything,” Billie Rhodes admitted, when the scene was over. On the way to the studio she had stopped her machine in the middle of the street, and hadn’t noticed that she wasn’t moving until she heard .some one laugh.
“Will tonight be the first time you’ve had your name in electric lights?” I asked.
She nodded. She was to make a personal appearance also.
“I feel a little sick,” she remarked.
“Scared almost to death,” said the “strong man.”
“I’m not scared,” she answered, indignantly ; “I’m just excited, and !t's hot, and I cant jet my mind on inything.”
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Billie has six broth very good-looking. It was, too. Her crs and three sisters, name is a short one and so is easily her family “the big played Up. She asked what pictures gest show on earth” were in the lobby. It was entirely the natural thing for her to say.
1 think that “The Springtime of Youth” is a good title for ne of her pictures. It fits her personality so completely.
I saw her again the next day, after the ordeal of her personal appearance was over. Everything had gone splendidly and the audience had liked the picture. She was very happy and still quite excited. This time the circus atmosphere was more pronounced. The ’cello and hand-organ were playing real circus music, and around the edge of the lot had gathered little groups of youngsters.
Every one was in a humor for work, and so the action moved quickly and smoothly. It was half-past one before the company stopped for lunch, and then you would have felt that Billie Rhodes carried the circus with her to her dressing-room.
.She is a restless little thing, is Billie Rhodes. Perhaps this is the most noticeable thing about her. “They” say that she will not live in any one house longer than six months if she can help it, and she admits cheerfully that she changes her mind about every two minutes. {Continued on page 74)
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