Picture Play Magazine (Sep 1919 - Feb 1920)

Picture-Play Magazine — Advertising Section "Can't You Help Me Get Into the Movies?" Continued from page 38 101 they clutch at your finger with thentiny hands and blow bubbles with their toothless little mouths, right on through every dear dirty stage of creeping and walking and climbing. To me a baby all smelling of talcum powder, with a warm, soft fat little neck, a baby of my own, would be the one divine extravagance. I can have a limousine or a sable coat or any of a dozen things that Mary cannot afford, but when it comes to the deep fundamental things of life, the things every woman wants, it is Mary who is the plutocrat, I the scrimper. I cannot afford to have a baby. I am making too much money, far more than the man who will be my husband. I dare not throw away the chance to provide for present luxury, for old age, for the safety and comfort of any who may come later. If I should drop out of my work for two or three years now I would come back to find myself practically forgotten. And I would be further handicapped by being older. Youth and beauty comprise my stock in trade and I must realize on them now. I appreciate that in this way I have an opportunity such as few girls have, and I feel that I must make the most of it. So I am working as hard as I can and saving as much as the extravagant way in which I have to live allows, dreaming of the time when I can have what Mary can have right now. If all goes well I shall have a great deal of money then, but I shall have paid for it with my youth, the glowing, eager youth that Mary can spend like a prodigal for her own happiness, can lavish on her husband and her children when they come. I have sold mine — I cannot do as I like with it. As my part of my bargain with the public I shall have the money, a little fame perhaps. Perhaps the children will come later, the happiness with my husband. But I am gambling with the most precious things in life. If I lose them I shall rue my bargain as long as I live. Even if I win I shall not have had them when I was young. I shall have lost something out of my youth that Mary will have had. I hope this does not sound as if I were whining. I realize that I am very fortunate in having the opportunity I have had. I like the money I am making, I find my work interesting, at times fascinating, and I am vain enough to like being pointed out in a crowd, feminine enough to love the sable coats. But I am feminine enough to want the other things, too. I imagine Mary and I are a little like the two horses that stand, one on each side of the fench, each bending his head to eat the grass on the other side. The other horse's grass looks greener. Perhaps I see the happiness in Mary's life through the rosecolored glasses of longing, just as she sees the happiness in mine. There may be a little glamor in both of our eyes. But I do wish I could make Mary see how green the grass on her side looks to me. Taylor and His Taxi Continued from page 33 Courtship' was my first one, for Essanay. 'Ruggles of Red Gap,' of course, was one of my biggest successes with them. For Triangle I began with 'It's a Bear' and 'A Regular Fellow.' The next one, by the way, is being taken for the most part up at my hotel, the Algonquin. It's called 'Upside Down' — the picture, not the hotel. Now you know all about me. Hello there, Tom " Taylor turned to speak to a passing friend. For a moment they held a' conference. "Excuse me," he apologized. "I had to consult him about our next entertainment for the wounded soldiers. We give them every week — the men are brought here, given a show, and taken back to the hospitals. I don't know of anything the actors enjoy doing more than that." He stopped and looked at his watch. "The honest taxi driver has got to get busy and earn some more money," he said, smiling again, as we rose to go. 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