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i 'By ELIZABETH PELTRET
pmething might happen to prevent her bing.
f “Blanche Sweet asked me to go to New jj'ork with her,” she said. “I asked Mr. airbanks if I could go, and he said that
ie thought I could, but at the last minute e found that he would have to begin a icture right away, so I didn’t get to go. ,m studying French, but I’m not setting * iy heart on the trip. I sometimes think •riat if you want a thing too much, you ^ont get it.” Which last was a curious ting for Marjorie Daw to say, because if here ever was a child of fortune, she is I'lat child. Fortune has indeed smiled !
|; Marjorie f)aw was 0 r n in Colorado prings a ;ttle over feventeen ears ago.
She was just fourteen years old when she first “broke ipto” moving pictures. She was not, however, a stranger to the studios. She and Mildred Harris, who is now Mrs. Charles Chaplin, were and are chums. She used to watch Mildred Harris work in “Indian stuff” at Inceville. “And,” she said, “it didn’t inspire me with the least desire to work in pictures myself ; it looked too much like real work ! But I like having Mr., Fairbanks do stunts, as the story says, ‘for me.’
“We were living in Santa Monica,” she went on. “When we moved to the city, (Los Angeles), my brother started working at the Fine Arts studio. So, too, did Mildred Harris.”
Marjorie, whose real name, by the way, is Margarita House, spent a great deal of time around the Fine Arts studio, tho she never worked there. Her brother. Chandler, was featured in children’s pictures. Chandler is younger than Marjorie, but he is quite tall. (This Christmas he “blossomed” into his first long pants. He is just sixteen years old, his birthday coming in January.) But to return to Marjorie Daw’s screen beginnings. Her first picture was with Wilfred Lucas and Cleo Madison at Universal and was called “The Love Victorious.”Next came “The Warrens of Virginia,” made at Lasky’s at' the time that Geraldine Farrar came West to make “Carmen.”
One day the great star, on her way to her dressing-room, paused to watch the fourteen-year-old girl work for a while. (Oh, well, it’s the same old story, except that in this case it really happened. It does sometimes, you know ; not, perhaps, so often in real life as in fiction, but often enough to keep hope {Continued on page 76)
-When she was three years old her parents took her to New York City.
“Little as I was when we first went to New York,” she said, “I remember the Hotel Belleclaire, where we "stayed. There was a fire engine-house across the street and my favorite pastime was watching the engines. Frances Starr lived there — I mean the hotel, of course, not the fire engine-house — and we became quite good friends. I remember her, but, of course, she’s forten me long ago !”
Marjorie has resolved to always carry a notebook. “Because,” she says, “I’ve changed my ambition. I want to be a scenario writer. And, perhaps, after a while I’ll write short stories” Center, one of Marjorie’s very first pictures
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