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to an intimate knoweldge. I'm glad I didn"t surpass my own abilities just at first. Workrefines the artist in a person and gives it the valuation of fine metal."
After the completion of "A Modern Salome," Miss Hampton spent several months in Europe visiting the various capitals and arranging for the foreign rights of her picture. Characteristically, she spent a major portion of her time in visiting the various cinema theaters and studios of the other continent and absorbing atmospheres and characteristics of personnel and production. She is one of the few persons I have met who can relate various incidents of her trip with insight, with sense of dramatic touch, with that rare faculty for knowing what is colorful, what is human, what is appealing.
She returned from abroad to go at once to California and commence work upon "The Bait," with Maurice Tourneur directing. "The Bait," is, in the vernacular, a "big story." It is a thriller. And the greater part of the thrill is the nicety of repression, the sense of potential things and emotions restrained exhibited throughout by Miss Hampton. She shows a sense of suggesting vital things, unusual in so young and so new, if we may use the term, a person.
" 'The Bait' is better" Miss Hampton said, sitting in a corner of one of her sets in the Fort Lee Studio, where she is now at work on her third production, still untitled finally ;
"it really is better, but I won't say it is best — oh, not by far. I'm still learning ; I'm still studying; I'm still working, and the greatest thrill I have ever had is to watch the steps of my progression."
Jack Gilbert, one of the very youngest of the young directors, and assistant to Mr. Tourneur, is directing Miss Hampton in her third story. The cast includes Percy Marmont, Jack O'Brien, Miss Hampton's leading man, and Mrs. David Landau, of all the screen mothers, one of the best beloved. Mrs. Landau's recent version of the eternal mother was as the mother of Anna Moore in D. W Griffith's "Way Down East."
With youth, with beauty, with health, with work, with the will-to-do and the will-to-be there isn't any possibility of slipping from out the Milky Way.
"If success comes at last in the measure I I want," Miss Hampton told me, in her vivid convincing way, "it will be wonderful. Of course it will be wonderful. It is something every girl has dreamed of when she dreams best, isn't it? Praise is sweet, too, and the belief in one by others as one goes along. Popularity and public recognition — they all mean so much and more than much. But the greatest of all thrills is the work of it, the climbing up the ladder and knowing that you are climbing, having the hard feel of each rung as you go up and the bright light at the very top guiding and beckoning all the time." Hope laughed, spontaneously, "I never thought I'd fall in love with zvork," she confided, "iust between vou and me — but I have!"