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smile. One day, after we had been discussing her a long time, I saw an odd little figure shyly standing in the doorway, and it was a few moments before I realized that it was Mary in her make-up for the part. Mr. Lasky didn't recognize her at all, even after she spoke to him.
"I'll miss all those days together with Mary more than any one who does not know her and therefore cannot fully tmderstand what association with a person of her ideals means. She is the most exquisite person imaginable. The Castilian cast to her features is a constant source of admiration to me.
"If there were anything great enough to
tempt me from going abroad it would be to
continue as her writer, but even that fades
before the wonder of this new experience.
I have felt the force of its suggestion a long
time urging me to go, but it was not until I
read 'The Amazing Interlude,' by Mary Roberts
Reinhardt, that the real inspiration came to me. I
could not stay then, and I was about to complete
arrangements for going with the Salvation Army
when some one suggested I write to Washington on
the chance of getting an appointment along the lines
I have been accustomed to.
"As a result of that they sent for me, and now it hardly seems possible that I am really on my way to France."
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Frances Marion has been in turn writer, painter, actress and scenarist
first steps of scenario writing. In speaking of this stage of her career, Miss Marion said, "I owe my greatest success to women. Contrary to the assertion that women do all in their power to hinder one another's progress, I have found that it has alwaysbeen one of my own sex who has given me a helping hand when I have needed it."
Frances Marion's first meeting with Mary Pickford was when she played opposite her in "A Girl of Yesterday," and from that time her whole ambition was concentrated into writing a story for her. Before she dared to hope for that, however, she came to New York as a freelancer, and later became scenario editor for the World Film Corporation, where she remained a year and a half, leaving there to become special writer for. Mary Pickford.
"While I am abroad I intend to gather material for a wonderful play for Mary Pickford — writing for her . is like giving a musician a Stradivarius violin," was the tribute she paid her friend.
"Mary and I have worked and laughed and cried over all her characterizations Until they have seemed real to us. In 'Stella Maris,' the pathetic little Unity was a vivid person to us, with her poor, humped back and twisted 54
Mary Pickford calls Frances Marion not only the best scenario writer she ever had but her best friend
Miss Marion can no longer claim to be the highest salaried writer in the profession, for the $50,000 she received yearly from Paramount have dwindled into the Government's $1 per month. But true service means sacrifice, and she is now considering nothing but service.
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