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MAY 1922
THE PICTUR&GO&R
45
" It must be because I am the approved fragile type," she said,
quaintly, " that 1 always suffer so much on the screen. Or, perhaps,
because my director believes that stories like 'Way Down litis! and
The Orphans have the biggest human appeal. But even in the
first film-play Dorothy and I ever did (it was a Griffith one
reeler, long, long ago), we were chased up to the top of a house
by burglars, who tried to get at us through the stove-pipe
hole."
" Before that, though," chimed in Dorothy, " we were on the stage. Not together, always. We'd have liked to, but we couldn't choose. Father died when mother \\a^ only twenty-three, and we were quite mites. People used to say Lillian would never live long enough to get into her teens. She was so quiet and good. 1 wasn't. I used to gel into mischief, and get spanked, and then Lillian cried — so much and so pitifully that she used to make everyone round her do the same. There was a friend of moth< r's who hadn't many teeth, and sh used to shake her head over Lillian— so." (Dorothy showed us, wr i t h great effect.)
" Dorothy would
never keep quiet,"
said Lillian, with that
heart-catching smile of
hers. " She was only a
little over four when she
played ' Little Willie ' in
' East Lynnc ' on tour.
1 was si\, and I was
Ji playing the same
Dorothy looks demure
and Lillian in " The Greatest Question."
of the Storm. " You would have liked our dresses," Lillian said. " They were lavender and rose-colour ; and, somehow, when I wore mine, the big side-panniers I'd felt certain would fidget me terribly, seemed quite natural. And Dorothy and I looked exactly alike, just as we nsed to when we were quite small, and they had to make us wear different-coloured ribbons to distinguish us."
" Theda Bara came once to see working." This from Dorothy. " And she asked Lillian how she made up that way. Lillian uses ever such a little make-up ; less than I, you know. Theda Bara played in the first Two Orphans production for Fox's, and she watched us for a whole day, and then said how very much she'd like to work with Mr. Griffith."
" Everyone says that," and both girls grew enthusiastic over their director, and we all agreed that Griffith's latest was also his very greatest.
Lillian is exceedingly modest about her acting, although she values the appreciation she receives on all sides.