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Mahlon HamiltonMan of Many Parts
fishing — all sports — and am mashed on a new car — a Stutz."
"You've smashed a new car?" I asked, in a tingle of excitement at the thought of a near-tragedy.
"Bless you, no ! That would have been a calamity. I have only had it for two weeks and there is more money to pay on it. When I get my hands on its wheel I am at peace with the world. I dont suppose I look it, but I am a very nervous chap and there is nothing that rests me so much as a drive in a smooth-running
car.
I WAS introduced to Mahlon Hamilton on the set in which he was working with Kitty Gordon at the United Theaters Picture Company studio in Hollywood. At the moment, a storm was gathering and the frame of a tall tower toppling for a fall caused a wild scramble for safety.
"Speedy work," he said, as he rushed me away, "almost up to
the mark set by 'The Hidden Hand,' in^ which I killed a man or "two every morning in order to whet my appetite for a murderous day." He moved me out of the storm into a seat in his dressing room, where he towered over my small and shrinking form, a "broth," of a blueeyed, six-feet-plus man.
"What a devilish grind it must be," he said before I could get my breath, "this interviewing people on what they have done, what they are doing, what they intend to do. Isn't the greatest bore on earth the man who insists on talking about himself, when you want to talk about yourself?"
"Not when you are the man," I replied promptly.
"You want to know, of course, the things I like to do,"
he hurried on but with a subtle intimation that he was
*iot trying to get rid of me, but was helping me to get
(7\rid of him. "I am strong for baseball, football, hunting,
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"You know that is one thing that the pictures do for us. I dont think that any one who has been a 'trouper,' who has tasted of the joys and triumphs of the stage, / is quite honest when he says he prefers the screen ; but, if he says he prefers the screenlife to stage-life, then he is talking truth; the screen-life, with its regular hours, its regular pay, its long-time contracts, its glorious out-ofdoor settings — these weigh heavily in the scale
against the glamour of the 'foots.' "
He was born in Baltimore and began his stage career there
Mahlon Hamilton, his new home in California and his equally new wife.
with Jules Murray in a college play cabled "At Yale."
"I was 16 years old but weighed 160 or, better and was as husky as I was weighty for my years. Then the SpanishAmerican War came along and I got the . war fever and en