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Picture s and Richure poet
AUGUST 1924
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Not even the far-famed " penny a day " can make
Marjorie work any faster, for London's climate
doesn't agree with her and the poor little lady has
been ill ever since she arrived.
on would enjoy the experience. I did when we met for the first time at the Famous-Lasky Studios, Islington, where Marjorie is at work on her latest film, a Selznick Production. Its title of the moment is Human Desires, but I was assured that it bids fair to be quite a good film, in spite of this.
The time was 3.30 p.m. and the scene a " luxurious bedroom in Paris." It was on the tip of my tongue to ask whereabouts in the film the ballroom set was used, when Clive Brook, who has the principal male role in the picture, saved me from making a bad faux pas.
" Miss Daw will be here in a minute," he told me. " We're not working at the moment because they haven't finished putting up this bedroom set." It was then that I noticed the bedstead, standing at the far end on a kind of raised dais. So I tried not to look surprised, said " Oh, yes," and waited.
Clive waved an expressive hand towards some rich wood carving, and some hanging tapestries ; his voice thrilled with honest pride :
" Rather a good idea that carving, don't you think? Makes the place look really French."
As I am no connoisseur of French bedrooms, I couldn't confidently express
The first photograph of Marjorie Daw taken in England.
Belozv : Marjorie Daiv in "The Passion ate Adventure."
an opinion, so I turned to hear what the Assistant Director had to say on the subject. He is a Frenchman and an authority for the company on matters Parisian.
His reply was simple and to the point.
" Mon Dieu !" he said. I can cemagine my wife at one end of that g-r-reat bedroom, and me at ze oze* with a megaphone."
Marjorie Daw.
It was at this juncture that Marjorie Daw came on the scene. As she walked over towards the bedstead, I took a hasty look round in search of that megaphone, but some careless person had mislaid it. However, it wasn't necessary, for presently Miss Daw came across to where I was sitting, and Monsieur the Frenchman (I beg his pardon, but I didn't catch his name) introduced us.
■"Phe interview went swimmingly after that. Marjorie is easy to talk to and refreshingly natural. She is free, too, from self-satisfaction. and really genuinely modest about her own accomplishments. In appearance she is very much like her film-self — slim and rather child-like, with light brown wavy hair which she has recently had shingled, and expressive hazel eyes. Her voice is very pretty, for she has an American accent without the twang, and it was this that made me ask her if she had ever done any stage work.
" Not professionally." she told me. " Of course, I've appeared at Charity Performances, and amateur arrangements like that, but I would never do stage work in the ordinary way unless I could have a really good dramatic training first of all. As a matter of fact, it's what I should like very much to do if I can get the time, later on, to train. 1 want to be able to take up stage work when I feel I'm getting too old for films, because for screen purposes one ages so quickly — the camera shows up every little wrinkle." But I