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Evelyn Nesbit in a scene from “Judge Not,” in which Miss Rosemon plays an extra
By ETHEL ROSEMON
The Extra Girl Becomt a Village Belle
A HUSH fell on the laughing, chatting girls. They paused with grease-paint suspended in mid-air, with fingers deep in the snowy contents of cold-cream jars or with pans of black cosmetic sizzling merrily over lighted candles Their eyes turned toward the open door, while then thoughts went wandering back over the years on train; of memory awakened by the low-toned voice in th( next room.
“But who was the son of Philip the Second?”
“I dont know.” ' ,
“Oh, yes, you do. Who was he ?” | r
“I dont know.” ^ 1
“Of coitrse you do, ’ You told me yesterday morning and the morning before that. Whjj cant you tell me now? Remember, candy or cake until you do.”
“Oh, yes, now I know,” piped the smal voice. “It was Louis.”
“Louis the what?”
“Louis the Lion-hearted.”
We could almost hea the teacher chuckle a; she announced a recesl in the morning’s les sons. Her rule of pedagogy from the inne consciousnes of the eterns mother, ha been tried an not found wani ing. Little Ru; sell scampere happ;ily of] perh^’s to pla at being can era-man, pe: haps to see ho i far up the seer ery he coul climb wither being caugb We smiled : sympathy an renounced oi roles of eavCt droppers to cor plete our fac for those v were soon play before tl camera.
This w a s^i new phase of tl| ever-changiri celluloid worl| where stars rij and fall accor ing to their ovj ability or that their press-ageni| where the so rows, the joys, t triumphs and t defeats of the
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