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It's not so easy keeping up with Percy Marmont when he is making love to two stars at once
By
George
Landy
PERCY MAR.MOXT is leadins a double life! One would never suspect it of this distinguished ex-English actor, but the fact remains that Marmont, over at the \'itagraph studios, is giving a faithful impersonation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, although hf docs his alternating on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. This is how he manages it: he hadnt quite finished all his scenes with Alice Joyce for "The Winchester Woman." in which he is her leading man. and he was also playing opposite Corinne Griffith in another forthcoming Vitagraph picturci So on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays he made love to Alice in the professorial, iron-grey-haired, semi-detached and middle-aged manner which her par
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ticular story called for; Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays — • half-a-day on Saturdays — he was kissing Corinne in the most approved, fire-eating, ardent-lover style which her story needed.
Director Tom Terriss was switched from the Alice Joyce company to the Corinne Griffith company. And when he read the script of the Griffith production he decided that he must have Marmont for the leading man — he had directed him, by the way, in Alice Joyce's "Vengeance," the amplification of Vitagraph's "The Vengeance of Durand," in which Earle Williams and Julin Swayne Gordon appeared in the good old days. So Percy began his busy career; no little electric fan in the hottest days of summer had anything on him. Not only an electric fan, but one of alternating current, — an oscillating fan. But what a terrible thing it would be, if he forgot himself and made love in a Tuesday style on Monday!
Little things like that don't matter much to Marmont, who has been a hard-working actor if there ever was one. He came to this country about two years ago; and since his American debut he has been doubling in brass to beat the band. His first double venture — and it came within three days after he arrived in New York — was in the stage play '"The Three Bears" with Ann Murdock and the screen production of "Rose of the World" with Elsie Ferguson. His rehearsals in the Frohman stage play were held at night so that he could fulfill his picture contract. He supported Miss Ferguson again in "The Lie" and was leading man to Geraldine Farrar in her Goldwyn picture, "The Turn of the Wheel." Then came Ethel Barrymore's all-star revival of "The Lady of the Camelias" at the Empire Theatre in the role of Rene de Varville. During the daytime he maintained his oscillating reputation by supporting Marguerite Clark in "Three Men and a (Continued on page 80)
The picture below was taken on a ^Vednesday — one of Mr. Marmont s days for making love to Alice Joyce. From "Vengeance, Vitagraph s second filmization of "The Vengeance of Durand.