Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1923-Jan 1924)

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"Nearly four years the first time, a year the second time." "And why did you forsake the silent art?" "The first time? ... oh, I wanted to give the public a chance to forget the poor stories I appeared in . . . there were other reasons, too." It was evident that she did not intend to elucidate further anent her first retirement. As to the second, she said "I was ill for the better part of the year — and did some traveling •" It was not thru anything Blanche Sweet said, but rather in what she left unsaid, that she disclosed her philosophy. The high unreasonable hopes of youth,' these must have vanished long ago. Life has tempered her; neither the garish 'enthusiasms of the half-baked, nor the naivete of the unsophisticated, can reach her: One of the very first stars of the cinema, under D. W. Griffith in the earliest Biograph days, she has seen the rise and fall of a myriad such as herself. She has seen each flare high, lighting the film firmament for a glowing year cr so, only to recede into the black reaches of oblivion. And she is still in her twenties! At one point she told me " Wha't. will be will be. It is when one hopes too much and believes too much that one can "be disappointed. The main difficulty to surmount — on the screen or in life — is the disparity between what we are and what. we aspire to be. An instance — a little girl -I knew began her picture career with the finest sort of esprit. Her belief in herself was unshakable. Then she saw herself on the screen, and didn't know herself ! Yes — she actually watched herself for a whole reel, and when I told her that she did very well for her first effort, she broke down and cried. In all her life she had never conceived of herself as looking as she did, of having the mannerisms, the clumsy carriage, the lack of spontaneity, that the screen revealed ! She had believed herself to be a surpassingly charming and graceful girl." We discussed her husband, Marshall Neilan. "Our viewpoints on just about everything are identical," she said. "You know, Mr. Neilan doesn't like anyone to talk about his faith in himself or the pictures or anything like that. Rather, he feels that he must just give all he has in him to every picture — and let Fate decide the rest." She discussed her husband's democratic views, his keen feeling for life, his varied experiences, his understanding of the heartbeats of every-day people. Here she roused her first enthusiasm, which mounted as she discussed his abilky to play the piano with a feeling that moved listeners deeply. The conversation lingered dully upon Gertrude Hoffman, with whom Blanche Sweat once danced for a season ; D. W. Griffith ; symphony concerts; the art of cooking;