Motion Picture (Aug 1922-Jan 1923)

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They used to come in to see me at noon and ask me if I would make them something to eat, and it got to be a habit for me to fix little things they'd like for lunch. "And Mae Marsh! She was just a child. Sometimes at night, when her mother'd want to go out for an evening's diversion, Mae used to stay with me. "But Gloria — Gloria Swanson, y'know — is my baby. I've seen her grow up, it seems. We used to be together at Keystone when she was hardly old enough to have her hair out of a braid. Then she came on this (the Lasky) lot the same time as I, and I've watched her bloom out like a wonderful rose. "When Bebe Daniels was ten years old she used to recite poems to us at the beach. Her mother an' I are great friends. I always think I'm dreamin' now, when I see Bebe's name in electric lights. She's still just a youngster to me, bless her!" For hours can "Mother" Ashton go on telling storylets about people now luminant in the picture industry. It is C. B. de Mille, however, whom she calls her "pet." For it seems that when she went onto ■ the heavily dramatic Lasky "lot" from her erstwhile comedy fortress, the Keystone, Miss Ashton was terribly afraid that he'd find out she had once been in the pie comics. She took every pains to hide her comedy "past," and trembled hourly lest someone disclose it. But it happened, however, that C. B. knew it all the while. And after she had made her first picture with him he went to her and told her he was happy that she had been in comedy, because it gave her a certain dramatic perspective that he likes his actors to have. Being presented on the screen, usually, in some sort of "mother" role, has placed Miss Ashton in the position of receiving a deal of confidential mail from mothers who would like to get their daughters in pictures, and from daughters who would want to get on the screen against their mothers' wishes. "In the show business," said she, "the more broadminded you are, the better you get along. And after you've been in it as long as I have, you dont look for other people's faults. "I often advise girls to stay out of pictures— not from a moral standpoint, but because I sometimes dont think they have the real ability. "Pictures are not meant for the girl with a champagne appetite and a beer pocketbook. "And a lot of girls want to get into them because they think they'll have a chance to wear fine clothes and not have to work hard. They're all wrong. That kind of girl hasn't the right stuff in her to make success. "Morally, the picture business is O. K. I've been around studios for thirteen years. "It's the people and their remarks that make girls bad nozvadays. "I love to see girls look pretty and have pretty clothes. God bless 'em, it's only the natural woman's pride that makes 'em want to be attractive. It isn't because of any desire of theirs to be vampires. "Show me a girl's foot and I'll tell you all about her." We on the outside of the studio gates have an idea that everybody in pictures — no matter who — is rolling in wealth and limousines. Again is ignorance bliss, for this isn't the real case at all. "Mother" Ashton, for instance, keeps boarders, and thereby hangs a tale. For, while her heart is of gold, while her nature is as sunny as the land of Spain, and while her philosophy is the doctrine of "do unto others," there have been persons who haven't known the meaning of reciprocity with her. And one of her own relatives is in this category. After a life in the "show business," she had managed to save a few thousand dollars, which she was prevailed upon by said relative to invest. And, at a time in life when she should be enjoying more or less ease as the reward of hard work, her "investor" absconded with her little nestegg. That was two years ago. Almost anybody else than the gold-hearted "Mother" Ashton would have sought redress, but she — well, she cried a few tears to herself, perhaps, and outwardly started out again as a worker. While it is her three hundred or more pounds avoirdupois which, perhaps, makes her a unique "type" actress, "Mother," like all other women, would prefer more svelte lines. "I used to go into the wojection room at Keystone and cry," she said ruefully, "when I saw how they made fun of me. But," and she sighed, "I got used to it. I suppose what is to be, is. "But it's kinda ironical to think that you've got to make your living out of a real deformity, isn't it?" "Mother" Ashton's little blue moments, however, are never very long superimposed on an auditor, and seldom has anyone ever heard a recitation of her troubles. Inwardly, she may be as blue as indigo, but her cheery "Hello, darlin' !" rings, nevertheless, from one end of the studio to the other. She's invaluable at Lasky's. Whenever they want someone to put a bit of comedy relief into a picture, they write in a part for her. She has played in vast dozens of ■! pictures, yet the following are those mm\ which she has liked herself the best : ' "Old Wives For New," "Why Change Your Wife," "For Better, For Worse," "Dont Change Your Husband" — all C. B. de Mille specials — "Jack Straw," with Robert Warwick; "Her Sturdy Oak," with Wanda Hawley ; "Is Matrimony a Fail t , ure?" and "Saturday Night." Ij As she says, she "done a little of every ! thing in the show business." She started her career in "The Milk White Flag," some years ago, and subsequently was in stock, musical comedy, vaudeville, burlesque— and even was a member of Watson's famous "Beef Trust" company, in which she was a "pony" and weighed one hundred and seventy. After three seasons in repertoire with Blanche Walsh, three more with Junie McCree in vaudeville, several seasons in stock in Denver, and another "rep" show, she went to pictures. In the early days she played with nearly every film company extant — and that's how her "family" came into being. She has a tangible ambition — one that anyone might expect from knowing her. She has an adopted daughter now, a little girl with poetic eyes and sweet manners. But she isn't satisfied. She wants to adopt a whole world of homeless girls. She wants to found a school for orphan girls where they will be taught the right way of living. 96 lA^e