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Photoplay Magazine
Bcssiclove — you just can't help running it together.
to me. And I did. And I think — though it was my very first attempt — I must have pleased him, or mother and E wouldn't have been invited to see him in his office."
Wouldn't you decide, you, as it did Bessielove's interviewer on the spot, that Motherlove's admonition about not letting a certain young head swell had been strictly observed ?
She's a bit of a girl, is Bessielove, packed full of genius and art. Just one year out of Los Angeles High School. Texas is her birth-home, and her parents brought her to California and unseen fame seven years ago. Her father is a physician ; her mother chaperones her at the Fine Arts studio.
"Down in Texas — 1 lived as a kid in Midland, you know — it was my ambition to grow up and be a school-teacher," said Miss Love. "Of course all kids' dreams artfunny — to grown-ups. But mine isn*t a< funny as most, because — well — because a girl can be a school-teacher in Texas, or she can get married. And then this blessed opportunity came along. I know I'm talking at random — skipping the years and things — but I like to. Did you know — ■ since my first picture I've played in six! Did vou see me with William S. Hart in 'The Aryan' ? He is a very wonderful actor. He has the soul of a poet. Yet he is just a splendid man ! Some of my friends at the studio think I resemble Mary Pickford. Do you?"
Bessie Love's mind flutters from thought to thought as a bee to the phlox. She is all feminine.
"Do vou know." she said naively, "I think if a girl wants to be a truly great actress she must study. I spend my evenings at home, mostly, studying. Dad's a doctor, and a ^reat student. And some of it I get from mother. I guess. She's a great reader. I suppose — " The slim girl pursed her lips in thought. "I suppose my sudden success, never having had the least bit of theatrical training, may make a whole lot of other girls — like me — crazy to act in the pictures. Tust tell them this, will you? I got my chance like one in a million. And it isn't easy. Oh. I know about the -iris that have 'acted since they were iiabies' and would 'just love to be in the movies.' But they don't know a thing about it. Once in a long, long while a girl's born with a face to fit the films, and once in a longer, much longer while she