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AN HOUR WITH ETHEL CLAYTON
By M. B. HARVEY
The Lubin studio is a large place. After wandering about aimlessly in it for some few moments, I stumbled upon a particularly obscure spot — and paused. For here, far away from all the others, a girl sat reading. The light from a little window. ^'"
set high up in the whitewashed wall, fell directly upon her head, showing me a rioting mass of many shades of red, with here and there an odd touch of gold to lend variety. She looked up — and then I saw that her eyes were as palely blue as the sea at dawn ; deep, mysterious orbs, set far apart.
"May we not be introduced?" I asked. "I'm from the Motion Picture Magazine, and you are Ethel Clayton, who has brought Shirley Rossmore into life as a picture heroine. ' '
"Then you've seen 'The Lion and the Mouse' on the screen? Maybe I didn't just love to introduce one of my favorite characters to the pictures ! I had so many ideas as to how I would play her!"
"Both you and Shirley are to be congratulated," T added. ' "For 'The
Lion and the Mouse' is as satisfactory a film as it was a play— and Shirley has lost none of her charm. ' '
"I thank you kindly, sir" — and Miss Clayton smiled. I felt and liked the friendliness of that smile, and screwed up courage to ask her a question. It was the old, old question that appears in every interview with a picture actor or actress. "Miss Clayton, do you like photoplay work \ You've been an actress on the regular stage, and so your viewpoint should be indeed interesting." Like pictures ? Indeed I do. Altho I was on the stage for quite some time and played many parts, both large and small, in stock, and as Emmett Corrigan's leading woman, and in vaudeville, I never want to go back. I have heard actresses say thai they missed the footlights, the people, and. most of all, the applause. I did, too, for a little while. It seemed a bit unsatisfactory to play to jusl a camera. But I began to realize before very long that the camera was only a symbol and stood for the millions who would eventually see my work. And 1 Pelt, too, thai my work had to be mighty ^z^m\. and that 1 had to look my best always when play
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