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"How," I asked, dutifully, "did you happen to go into the pictures ?"
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cordially as if I hadn't asked the . most bromidic question in the interviewer's vocabulary.
"Oh," she said, "I didn't happen. I went. I was just crazy about the movies. Made up my mind I was going to get into them when I was graduated from the Washington Irving High School. Where there's a will there's a way, you know, and I just had good, plain Irish nerve. I applied for a place as an extra at the Edison studio, and when they asked me if I had had any experience, I said, bold
as brass, 'Yes, indeed; played in about eight pictures.' They believed me ! I was given a small part and got away with it.
"Mother is one of those dear 'yesing' mothers. Everything has always been 'yes' with her. But when she heard about the pictures she said, 'Nothing doing.' You see, there never had been an actress in the family. But when I want anything badly enough I generally get it. I wanted to be in pictures. I was tired of not being self-supporting and I went ahead. And now the family is pleased as Punch.
"Gee, I'm glad I got into pictures when I did. They've been mighty good to me. Altho I only played small parts at Edison, I was soon playing leads at Thanhouser. From the time I played Sophia in 'The Vicar of Wakefield' the critics have been kind to me. When Thanhouser went out of business, Mr. Smith offered me this starring contract with Vitagraph.
"No success I might have could make me big-headed. I shall always remember how those leading ladies at Edison used {Continued on page 101)
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