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women in my profession are often not good at business. I haven't been a good business woman. Of course, if you have a really great mission, a tremendous purpose, you can't be turned from it. But I never felt like that about motion pictures.'
" There we came to the first real reason for Pauline Frederick's desertion. Her deep, passionate, vital love for the stage. I don't think she herself has realized sometimes how powerful a force it is.
" ' You do love the stage best? ' I asked her and she admitted it.
" ' Oh yes,' she said, ■ I love the stage much the best. You see it was my first love and a woman always has a secret tenderness for her first love, doesn't she? I like acting on the stage better than before the camera. I learned to act on the stage, under stage conditions, with my voice as a great asset and with audiences and footlights. Yes, I must admit I like it best. But — there's another thing about the difference between stage and screen acting, another more powerful thing even than my love of the stage.'
" And that brought us squarely to the second thing. Pauline Frederick's unconquerable idealism about her work. Her artistic conscience is still intact after much battering. Her unshakable determination to do what is worthy, to give only her best, has kept her an idealist in a commercial age and profession. Some people call that being a darn fool — others call it being a great artist.
" Pauline Frederick has had bad luck. She has had some terribly unfortunate breaks in her picture experience. That comes, as she says, from not being a