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to interpret. Since then other directors have carried on the good work along these lines, so that it doesn't much matter whether Colleen wants to laugh or cry — her directors have got it all arranged for her, and it looks as though everybody would be satisfied.
" I like to submerge my own personality completely in the part I am playing," broke in Colleen with a torrent of words. " I'm only happy when my parts give me a wide range of emotions and character to express. That is why I so much enjoyed my first part with Mr. Neilan in Dinty.
Below : Colleen as the ultramodern flapper in " Flaming Youth."
Above: A scene from "Painted People.'
coveries . . . that is as a star. D.W.G. was certainly thip first to see an actress and recognise her as such. Neilan intended to star Colleen, not in tragedies or comedies, but in those pictures that portray real life on the screen. The varying studies of laughter and tears that Neilan himself loves, and Colleen knows so well how
Below : Colleen Moore, Ernest Torrence, and Malcolm McGregor ' Broken Chains."
OCTOBER 1924
played the dual role of a light-hearted girl and of a saddened and ageing woman. It was a bit of a strain for the inexperienced actress that I was then, but Mr. Neilan seemed satisfied. So was Mr. Vidor. He liked my work in Dinty so much that he borrowed me from Goldwyn to make The Sky Pilot in Canada.
" After that New York again to make The Lotus Eaters. Oh," with a little shiver of happiness, " that thrills me even now when I think of it. I was chosen out of hundreds of other girls to play in it opposite John Barrymore, my idol from childhood. I never thought I should ever really have the chance. It was glorious."
Che went off into a happy dream of recollections, from which I had to rouse her rather sharply. It was growing late. John had nearly finished doing .whatever it was he was doing to the car, and I had not yet discovered what ultimately became of Kathleen Morrison. " And since The Lotus Eaters?" I asked helpfully.
" Gracious, I can't remember the order,'2— said Colleen, " there've been dozens since that happened. I know there was Broken Chains and Slippy McGee, and later on April Showers, The Huntress, Flaming Youth, The Perfect Flapper, The Swamp Angel and Flirting With Love. Next week I shall be back again beginning work on the star part in So Big. Incidentally," she said, " I've been getting married, as you know. I remember when that was all right !"
" Long ago ?" I asked.
Milton Sills and
Colleen Moore
in " Flaming
Youth "
" Last August — August 18th to be exact. August's my lucky month you know. The first is my birthday, then in August I met Mr. Griffith at that dinner party. I signed my contract with Christie in August. Then in (Continued on fagfe 47.)