Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1918-Jan 1919)

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Out of the second and fourth weeks' pay the carfare is deducted, and we had to pay our own traveling expenses for short jumps, buy wardrobe and pay board. I never had a cent left — .the salary never ran more than thirty to forty dollars. My folks had become reconciled to it by that time and would send me money to return to Los Angeles. They had given me a splendid wardrobe besides, for while not wealthy people, they were comfortably fixed and did not want me to make a poor appearance, as long as I was set on being an actor. "I used to prepare them for the worst. I would write, 'Things are looking a little slow this week,' and then the next week I'd wire, 'Company busted up ; think I can get home on about ten.' My parents had a lot of patience, and my father used to say, 'If you'd only surprise us just once by coming back with a little check — just something to put in the bank for a change.' They knew I got money, but they never saw it, and it always wound up the same way — I needed a remittance. "After the last fatality I stayed around Los Angeles for a couple of months. It was summer and nothing turned up. I met a couple of people who wanted to put on a three-person act at the small towns near Los Angeles, something that would blend in well with pictures at small theaters. I had not seen any of the big shows they had back East, but one of the men was quite a clever writer, good at dialog stuff. He boldly snitched plays like 'Girl of the Golden West,' 'Lotteryman,' 'The Wolf,' 'The Dollar Man,' and took the best of the plot, used different titles and names for the characters, put in dialog of his own, for we never saw the original plays, and we would have a twenty-minute act like a short synopsis of a play. He used to take The Green Book, which then printed whole plays, and, of course, he'd get the punch, for the best scenes would stand out and we just copped those bodily. We made quite a hit playing around Whittier, Covina and such places. We even did Henry Miller's 'Havoc' under a different name. We were some pirates! "We got eighty dollars a week and split it three ways. Each of us got twenty dollars, and the other twenty we pooled for expenses, scenery, carfares and things like that. We all worked at the scenery. Used to paint lots of stuff— it was real fun. I had great experience in make-up, anyway. "But really, I had studied make-up long before I went into this. At home, when I had seen a show, I would go to my room and pull crepe hair apart and put on the funniest beards, wigs and mustaches. I had a complete outfit of grease-paints, and it was a far larger collection than I possess now, when I'm a professional. I would get home from a theater about eleven-thirty and stay up until four a. m. trying out poses and make-up. I had one of those little two-dollar Brownie cameras • and set it on a table for proper focus. Then I put a handkerchief on the floor where I was to stand after I had it focused. I had a long fuse on the flashlight back of the camera, touched that with the match, rushed back to the handkerchief and struck a pose, and thought the light never would go off, I was so excited ! You ought to see the collection of old snapshots I have taken in all sorts of make-up of myself by myself. "Yet even that little tour came to an end._ They got tired of vaudeville in the movie houses. One evening the other fellow in this trio and I were sitting in my room at home, kicking our heels against the trunk and wishing we could go somewhere, when in walked Harry Spear, of the Belasco Stock Company here. He began to talk Motion Pictures to us ; said, 'Why dont you fellows go to it?' That listened good to me. I was hoping my pal would not want to go into it, for fear if both of us went only one would be taken. Wasn't that selfish? But you see I was so crazy about acting that I thought I just must push in regardless of anybody else. Anyway, my pal made light of it — said he'd hate to go into anything like pictures, he wanted to make a stage success. "I thought this was a fine move, because I would have no board to pay. My folks always entertained me gratis. Spear told me to go to the Ince studio, near Santa Monica, and I set my alarm-clock for six a. m. When it scared me out of sleep next day I was mad, and didn't think that movies would be very attractive after all, for I'd been accustomed to long morning naps. However, I got out, changed cars three times, walked a lot and suddenly landed on what I have ever since thought the most inspiring sight I ever beheld. There were about ninety cowboys riding wildly on their ponies, forty to fifty Indians, sixty tepees, a most beautiful California morning to brighten the scene, the shimmer of the Pacific Ocean, the liveliness and busyness of the entire place — it all thrilled and charmed me. I never wanted to do anything so badly in all my life as to go into the movies right then and there. "I had been told to see Charlie Giblyn, so when we met I told him I'd suped at Morosco and Burbank, played juveniles in road companies and been in my own act for quite a while. I remember the date so well — December 12, 1912. It will always stand out in my memory. They were doing Civil War photoplays then. Not many women were used. Cannon were booming, hand-to-hand battles being fought, and over on the other side they were putting on a Western play of the usual sort, stage-coach hold-ups, and so on. "They took me right on for an extra, told me to put on a beard. I found right then that my training in making up during the lonely night hours was going to stand me in good stead. I really attribute my entrance into pictures to this, for, you see, juveniles are not accustomed to make up as a usual thing, and if I'd not been able to do what was wanted right then and there I probably never would have had a show., "I was put to work, and after the day was over, Mr. Ince happened along and talked to me for a moment. He praised my beard and characterization, and I said, 'Well, this is a little out of my line, but I've done the best I knew how.' He said, 'What is your line?' I answered, 'Juvenile.' He told me to report the next day again. I had been accustomed to making up for Lincoln, Grant and other big men,