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AMOTION PICTURF TOl | MAGAZINE L,
all dreadful, I am sure, tho at the time they seemed extremely important to me, at least. While I was working in them, tho, I kept thinking how few the opportunities were for me to pursue a theatrical career in New Orleans, and what a broad field New York offered. Finally I broached the subject of going to New York to mother, and she consented to accompany me North. There is something of the spirit of the adventurer in her, too, I'm sure, and when our ship docked at the pier, that snowy winter afternoon of which I have already spoken, she, no doubt, thrilled at the thought of invading the metropolis, tho she may have had some misgivings. I had none.
We soon established ourselves in a boarding-house in Ninety-third Street, between Broadway and Columbus
Avenue. It was rather hard for mother and me to become accustomed to the ways of the boarding-house, to have strange people sitting down with one at every meal, and to have large bowls of food passed from hand t o hand. However, it was an entertaining experience until the novelty wore off, at least, and
Mother was sympathetic when she found I had determined upon a career, and for this I never can be grateful enough. (Left) A young Leatrice with her mother . . . (Below), in "Bunty Pulls the Strings." (Bottom), with Robert Warwick in "Her Man"
pany was leading man, and at first I was quite entranced at the thought of working opposite him. This feeling soon wore off, however. As is frequently the case, he proved nowhere near so fascinating a figure in real life, as he was behind the footlights.
Mother was quite sympathetic when she found that I had determined upon a career, and for this I never can be grateful enough. Had she insisted upon my going to La Visa to live, my life could not have been so full and happy as it now is.
I made three pictures with the Nola company. They were
gradually we got used to it. There were some kind, lovely people in that boarding-house. I often wonder what has become of the different ones.
I soon learned the locations of the various studios, and applied for extra work. Before long I received a call from Fort Lee, and so my screen career began in earnest — as an extra girl in a Roscoe Arbuckle comedy, "The Other Man."
I then worked as an extra with Alice Brady,
who was also at Fort Lee, and when I was not
working at one of the motion picture studios, I
posed for artists and commercial photographers.
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