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WEST IS EAST
A Few Impressions By DELIGHT EVANS
THE door opened, and A very Prettv Ladv Walked In. She Looked like a Page From Vogue — she Dresses that Way, and She Smiled and Said. "How do you do?" and then I Knew who it was — No,
Not a Film Star, but
A Lady-writer —
Jane Murfin — she
Does Plays and Scenarios and
Is Easy to Look At
Into the Bargain — it
Only Goes to Show it Can Be Done.
She had Just Come Back
From California and
I Asked her if she
Had been Busy Out There.
"Oh, No," she said.
"I Didn't Do Much: Just
Two Continuities — and
Finished Several Plays — but Mostly,
I Loafed."
'Oh," I Said.
I Didn't Ask her
How she Happened
To Be a Writer, but
I'd Like to Know. Anyway.
She's
Smart Enough and
Witty Enough, but
She Smashes all those Old
Theories about
Blue-stockings.
It's Too Bad
You Can't See her
On the Screen.
TTHEN I Larry Trimble Came In — with His Dog. Mr. Trimble is A Very Nice Man but I Never Can Pay Much Attention To him when He Brings his Dog Along. It's
A Dog all right — but
It's Bigger than a Bear and
A Maiden Lady Mightn't
Like to Meet it.
Mr. Trimble was
Making it Behave so
He Could Use it in a Picture.
He
Always has a Dog —
You Remember Jean,
The Vitagraph Collie?
Jean was Mr. Trimble's Dog.
The New Dog
Acts
In "Darling Mine" and Mr. Trimble would have Given him More to Do Only
It Seemed too Much Like Keeping the Honors in
It's too bad Jane Murfin isn t on the screen.
The Family.
He Directed
"My Old Dutch"
With Florence Turner
Over Seven Years Ago —
It's Still Being Shown.
Miss Murfin is Going to Write
Some Now Stories for
"'New York cramps my style," says Monte Blue
Mr. Trimble to Direct.
MONTE BLUE Came from Indiana. I Came
From Indiana. Too.
So Unless you are
i\ Hoosier you probabK
Wouldn't be Interested >
In What we Talked About.
Mr. Blue is
\ \'ery Tall Young Man — The Very Tallest Young Man I Have Ever Seen. He
I'sed to be a Cow-puncher, .^nd he Punched until He Got the Idea That He Wanted to be an Actor. He Went to California and Tried to Get a Job In a Film Studio. Nobody Wanted him.
He Hung .Around Griffith's,
Until One Day
When he was
Sitting on a Bench
With all the Other E.xtras. jn
Assistant Director Came and Said,
"I Want a Man
To Do Some Work.
W-o-r-k!"
Monte Got Up;
All the Others
Sat There.
".\re you Afraid
Of Work^" asked the A. D.
Monte
Just Looked at him.
For Months Monte
Moved Props, until
A Director Noticed him —
He Couldn't Help It—
-And Gave him
Small Parts to Play.
He was a Heavy until
Cecil DeMille Saw him. and
Put him in Leads —
With Mary Pickford. and
Ethel Clayton, and Others.
You Saw ''Something to
Think About."
Monte Almost
Drowned Making
The Subway Scenes.
Next Year he
Is Going to Star.
There's Nothing
Upstage about Mr. Blue.
He still
Remembers when in? Job was
Teaching Connie Talmadee To Drive her Chariot for "Intolerance." "But
I Want to Go Back West " He Said to Me, "As Soon as I Can. Manhattan Sure Cramps My Style."
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