My strange life, the intimate life story of a moving picture actress. Illustrated with photographs of America's most famous motion picture actresses ([c1915])

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Title:
My strange life, the intimate life story of a moving picture actress. Illustrated with photographs of America's most famous motion picture actresses
Date:
[c1915]
Publisher:
New York Grosset & Dunlap
Volume:
My strange life, the intimate life story of a moving picture actress. Illustrated with photographs of America's most famous motion picture actresses
Leaf #:
00041
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Robarts - University of Toronto
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
26 52
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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MY STRANGE LIFE the panther tread in walking, the half-sliding, half-sinuous movement, which is now so fashionable. It was quite natural to me, with my strong, shapely body. I lived in that little town of A very quietly, sleeping late, arriving at the theater at one o 'clock, and with an hour off for sup- per, staying until half-past ten or eleven 0 'clock at night. The proprietor, Van Enden, being, as I have said, a friend of my good landlady, was always polite and good to me. Otherwise I should not have stayed there, at eight dollars a week. I was very happy at the Imperial. It was a small theater, seating only three hundred people; but it did an excellent business, espe- cially at night, when a great crowd always waited in the back for the seats to be emptied. It was very dark and poorly ventilated, but 1 grew to love the impenetrable gloom; I, a dark spot under the white screen, and that living mass of breathing humanity behind me. I think I had something to do with the good business, for I was, in a way, a good actress, even then. I threw myself into each film that came along, and, not being able to express the story in acting, I expressed it in music, showing every change in emotion and [26]