Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Aug 1919)

CLASSIC The Patrician of the Photoplay {Continued from page 19) living of the character. On the stage you play a character straight thru for many nights. It grows, expands, mellows— and you develop with it. “I find myself absolutely dependent upon my audience. That is why the lure of the stage never leaves me. There is something electrical in the way thoughts flash back and forth between a player and the playgoer.” Miss Ferguson’s eyes glowed with interest. She snapped her fingers to express the electric spark as it crackled across the footlights. “The studio’s loss of an audience at first seemed insurmountable. However, I soon found my audience in my director. But, if he cannot feel with me, react to my emotions, then I am lost. That is why, it seems to me, that a great director must be a man of infinite, delicately strung feelings.” Miss Ferguson misses the use of her voice, of course. “One thing does seem to hurt,” she admits. “It is the way subtitles are flashed upon the screen. One works up to a big scene and, just at its height, a subtitle of spoken words is flashed. Then the scene resumes just where you stopped speaking the words, frequently with the biggest bit of your playing cut out and cast into oblivion. “I shall return to the stage this fall,” continued Miss Ferguson. “I want to go on developing. The stage, as I have said, gives expansion of character thru the very living of a character. But it gives more than that — it gives opportunity to meet and study people, to read and to think. “There is nothing so restful as having time to be introspective,” smiled the ■ actress. “That is, time to sort and arrange my impressions and their reactions upon me. “When I return from the studio I am infinitely tired. I used to laugh at the idea of the tired business man and his ; love of light entertainment of the chorusgirl type. But after my months in the studios, I can understand his mood. My eyes are too tired to permit night reading and, when I do feel able to go out in the evening, I want to go to something frothy, something that will rest my numbed nerves. Yes, I am a tired business i woman these days.” 1 The mere thought seemed preposterously amusing. The fragile Miss Ferguson, at the moment daintily studying her cigaret, seemed far removed from exhaustive work. She was every inch the delicate aristocrat. But Miss Ferguson smiled. “It is true, nevertheless. But that is not the real reason for my return to the stage, since, like everybody else, I suppose I shall keep up my screen work. It is the lure of the footlights. The mere smell of the theater stirs me.” Miss Ferguson’s sensitive nostrils quivered. There was a far-away look in her eyes. “That musty, grease-painty odor of an old dressing-room !” she sighed. {Continued on page 89) (Eighty -seven) I Woxildl THe Law , Let YOU Mari-v ? 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