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FEBRUARY 1924
Pictures an d Picture^ oer
said, " and I love to have bright colours and beautiful things around me. It helps my work. It keeps me mentally alert."
How did you come to desert the Stage even tcm]>orarily for the screen?" 1 asked.
"Luck," she replied, "just pure luck. I had done very little of real importance on the Stage up to then. When 1 left my draniat le school I got my first engagement— a walking-on part in which the chief interest was that 1 had to double for the heroine's shriek. 1 did it off-stage, and brought the house down! And I really think that shriek was responsible for my first real part whieh followed — a part in ' The Yellow Jacket.' After that, I appeared with Matheson Lang in • Mr. Wu,' in 'The Thirteenth Chair,' and then in ' The Barton Mystery.' Then the screen found me.
" The general public," I said, "seem to think that your first screen part was with Matheson Lang in Carnival."
Above : Hilda as " the
Countess " in " Under
Suspicion," her first
star film. Below : With
G. K. Arthur in
" Flames of Passion."
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could do it, least ol all mj elf, hut I loved the work."
"Which is your favouriti part, Miss Baj l( j .;" I aski d,
" Simonetta " in ( ai nival,"
replied without hi sitation, " both on the
e and on the screen. Sin has such a range and such personality. B must confess," she added, a little apologetically, " that I like playing had women and downtrodden women too. 1 had a wonderful part as a drug fi( nd in When London Sleeps, and an
interesting character studs a Herbert Langley's unhappy wife in Flami
Passion. There couldn't have b( more miserable woman, I think."
"And now you're devoting yourself entirely to films?" " There are stage interludes, though," she answered, " but 1 hope my film public will always be as kind to me as my stage public has been."
"What are your latest films?" I asked, for I was loath to go although the clock was ticking away the time of my appointment.
" The Scandal," she answered, "which we made in tin South of France, and The Woman Who Obeyed."
As she shook hands Hilda murmured pensively, " You know I don't know why she obeyed! I never do!"
And I'm sure she doesn't. Hilda is a law unto herself — and a beautiful one!
Hilda Bayley.
"Oh, no!" Hilda answered. " My real debut w^as in a propaganda film during the war. I won't tell you its name, but Walter West liked my work in it well enough to engage me for a small part in A Soul's Crucifixion. Under Suspicion followed — I was a Russian Countess in that — and then Lyn Harding and I made a version of The Barton Mystery for the