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Bert Lytell and Leatrice Joy on Lake Tahoe during the filming of " The Right oj Way."
" Has he been telling you of all the beautiful women that have been his heroines on the film ? " she asked, with mock seriousness.
I looked at Lytell for guidance. We were on delicate ground, I suspected, but my hostess speedily disillusioned me on that point.
" Don't think I am jealous," she said, with a happy, confident laugh, as she took her big husband's arm. " He's much too nasty a man on the screen — a veritable waster. He doesn't shave, he drinks, and takes drugs ; I'm really frightened to go and see him on the films, sometimes."
" Anyway," retorted Lytell, with a twinkle in his eye, " you were very glad to have a screen ' crook ' as a husband the other day when you lost the key of your dressing-table drawer.
" Did you hear about it ? " he asked me. " My wife had to fall back on my ' Jimmy Valentine ' knowledge of picking locks with a hair-pin to overcome the difficulties of a lost key. The man who taught me that sort of light-fingered business enlightened me in the studios. He was an expert, and we had a close-up of his hand operating the hair-pin. Everyone thought it was a great success until we heard that the lockpicking genius had practised his talent on the producer's office and helped himself to the loose cash."
We walked round the picturesque grounds of the house whilst tea was being laid on the verandah, and Mrs. Lytell recalled the days when she first met her husband at San V rancid. ,
" We were both playing at the old Alcazar Theatre," she said ; " and from love-making on the stage, we became lovers in real life."
I had a hard standard to live up to where sentiment was concerned," interrupted Lytell, with a quiet smile.
"In stock we played several plays a week, and I made love to my leading lady every evening in every variety of character. I was the bold wooer, the shy suitor the overbearing cave-man, all within a few days. Yet when I proposed to my wife, despite all the groundwork that led up to my romance, I confess that I was the diffident, stuttering amateur just as tradition paints the man who declares his affection to the lady of his heart."
Amidst the gravel paths and smooth lawns of the picturesque grounds of the house of the Ly tells, I detected signs that told of the Paramount star's hobbies. There was the neatly rolled tennis lawn where he forgets the strenuous life of the studios, and the glistening, white enamel cups let into one stretch of lawn revealed the fact that he keeps his hand and eye in training with clock golf.
When we had wended our way back to the verandah, and Lytell was momentarily occupied in helping his wife to arrange the tables around the silver, glistening tea-table, I had
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Bert Lytell and an " extra " in " Junk."
the opportunity of studying my host without an apparent staring process of analysis.
He is pleasing without being handsome in the Adonis class of the matinee idol. He has a strong face witli a firm, fighting jaw that spells determination in anything that he attempts. His thick, black eye-brows have just a slight Mephistophelian