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Well Done-"
Do it yourself. So Mickey Ncilan laid aside the megaphone and reached for the grease-paint.
"W/HAT is the word that expresses the idea of revertinR back to
yv thi old stuff?' asked Director Marshall Neilan refleclively Ho you mean 'atavism?'"' was the reply.
•;N'opc,' declared the youthful wieldir of the mej-aphoni "that isnt It. Atavism is a reversion to type and my reversion Lnt to tyjx but to a juvenile.
It was just because he couldn't net the rinht sort of a juvenile to play opr)osite Mary Pickfurd in "Daddy Lonj; Lens" which he was directmR. that Neilan decided, upon the suKKi-^tion of Mary herself to put on makeup once again after a number of years, and play the part himself.
"If you want a thine well done," quoted Mary to her stern director, 'do It yourscFf."
And Mickey did.
"Daddy LonR LeRs" will recall to the early film enthuMasls the days when Neilan was one of the handsome younn juveniles to whom the pirls wrote lengthy epLstles— when he played opposite most of the stars at some time or other. Vou mav remember him particularly, as the neclectfiil Pinkerton in "Madame Butterfly"' to Marys plamtive Cho-Cho San He plaved oppoMte Miss Pickford, too, m 'Rays" and "Little Pal ' Then he took up directinK and at less than thirty is one of the acknowledged leading producers m the business.
Mickey on hi* rrappearaace aa Here (he i« posing him for a known AeWarle fir«« position. In played the Jimmy McBiide of " D jdWebater muat have intended kid into her popular atory.
"Goih!" he aaid. it he m-ielded the eyr-pencil."it*» ^'•■n a long lime aincr I made up. But the old ^■^'•e paint smella good to me. Mickey ia always, however, an actor in tbe directing buaioesa.