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DOUGLAS E. (ELECTRICITY) FAIRBANKS
of the stamps used in writing photoplayers. Fans, do you know what D. F. is willingly spending a week for you? One hundred dollars a week is what his correspondence costs him. However, he says :
"I am always glad to hear from my friends, and am pleased to see that my work is liked. I wish only that I had more time to answer all of my admirers personally. A very few of my letters are rather peculiar, but they are all sincere, I believe, and that is the main thing. Some one wants to know why I dont get Marguerite Clark for a leading lady, or Teddy Roosevelt for a leading 'heavy.' I try to, or else have my secretary, answer all of the letters. These friends have helped me to success on the screen, and I hope to keep them as true friends."
I picked up a magazine from the table and opened it. There I saw some photographs of Mr. Fairbanks, so I asked : "What is the feeling you have when you see your photograph in some paper with a very flattering 'write-up' about you?"
"Oh, at first it seems rather funny and somewhat like a dream ; but when one becomes used to it, it seems fine, and he craves for more ; it gives encouragement
and it helps a great deal. There is a great future in Moving Pictures, and I am glad that I shall remain in them, altho I did like the legitimate stage very much. Perhaps it is because I like to talk. Only this afternoon I addressed a woman's club to keep in practice."
I could not help but wish, after spending an hour and a half with Mr. Fairbanks, that there were more real red-blooded actors like him on the screen and less dolled-up beauties with neatly pressed dress-suits and a "How charmed" expression.
As we parted at the lobby door, he to join a much-delayed dinner-party and I to adjourn to Broadway, I could not help but think of the talent which fate tried to conceal by calling him Douglas. Those of you who have seen "Getting His Picture in the Paper," "The HalfBreed" and "Manhattan Madness" can truly appreciate the acting of Douglas Fairbanks.
As I walked out of the hotel, I murmured to myself, "A smile, a smile; my kingdom for a smile," and I am sure that not one of you readers blame me in the least, especially those of you who happen to know Douglas Fairbanks personally.
An Ail-Around Player
By CHARLES F. MOORE
ve worked with Theda Bara, also Nance O'Neill, Drunk wine with Clara Kimball Young, In that grand old play, "Camille"; Was a doctor with Betty Nansen, Played a general with little Marguerite Clark. Played the family lawyer in a piece called "After Dark." I worked with little Pearlie White, also Creighton Hale, And I believe the name of the picture was "The Spasms of Elaine." I worked with Alice Brady, and it seems only the other day That I worked with Mary Boland and my dearest friend, Jane Gray. I worked with Madame Petrova, and Ethel Barrymore too, But I better stop this rhyming stuff, For I'm afraid it's boring you. All in all, I've worked with some noted actors, Some are fat and some are thin,
There were roly-poly Thomas Wise, Edwin Arden and Holbrook Blinn. I've worked with Robert Warwick and "the man of many wives," Also William Farnum, who took so many lives.
But there's one I haven't forgotten, and her equal 'twill be hard to find, I mean sweet Mary Pickford, whom I doctored in "The Eternal Grind."