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The Girl With the ] Nursery-Rhyme Naul
tious. She has very few pictures; those in her bed room are all photographs. In the bookcases ar< many school-books of her own and her brothers’, : i number of novels, some collections of detectiv( ■ stories and a great deal of poetry. There really is nc rose-garden. 1 put it in with my other impression; because it seemed to me that she belonged in one.
Think of jier, then, as dressed in gingham and witl her brown hair wavy, tho not in curls, hanging dovvi her back, and you have a picture of her as sht looked when 1 called unexpectedly at half-past ter o’clock New Year’s morning.
“If I had known you were coming,’’ she said, “llj would have thought up something thrilling to tel' you.”
it hap])ened that the conversation turned or thrills, and she told me jhat." if nothing happens to prevent it, she will go to France witli the Douglas Fairbanks company and make several pic-| tures there. She was girlishly afraid that
"Seesaw, Marjorie Daiv,
Jennie shall have a neiv master, She shall have but a penny a day, Because she dont go any faster."
The girl who was discovered I jy -GeraldineFarrar as she is today, a glimpse of her playing opposite the redoubtable Doug, and as she was when Gerry fir.'t saw her
The word “thrilling” repeated frequently during a conversation, a cleareyed, wholesome girl who really means it because, to her, everything is thrilling, a California bungalow, a rose-garden, wholesomeness and again wholesomeness, a little, nervous laugh, youth incarnate— Marjorie Daw,
Because she is so easily thrilled at things she has been called “the greatest little ‘thrill’ girl in the movies.”
“That is true,” she said, “I’m not a bit blase.” (.She has a way of speaking about herself as tho she were ninety, as when 1 asked her for a picture she had had taken with Geraldine Farrar, whose protegee she is, she protested, “Biit you dont want that one; it was made years ago!” and, too, when we were looking at photographs, the ones she thought best were always the ones that made her look the oldest,) By which it may be seen that she is a real ingenue, even tho .she has on her young shoulders a great deal of responsibility. .She is sending her younger brother thru school and taking care of an aunt who lives in Arizona.
How'ever, //t/.t Marjorie Daw’ receives a great de;d more than “a penny a day,” and she “dont go any faster,” because Doug Fairbanks could not do so many wilds stunts for her if she, too, were moving quickly. .She has been with him for five pictures, longer than any other leading lady he has had.
I saw her at her home in Hollyw'ood. It is a simple little place, simply furni.shed. There was nothing in sight that one would call a luxury. In the front room, for instance, are a handsome rug, a piano and two built-iti bookcases. All of her chairs are thoroly comfortable, tho not in the least preten
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