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Carrying On
Mrs. Wallace Reid would probably have been forgotten had she not made pictures after Wally's untimely death. Her professional work is not for self-aggrandizement, as her heart is in her home and the future of Billy and Betty.
turned to California. Everything was altered. No one knew her.
"Harold Lockwood ?" asked one director, when the late star's widow mentioned who she was. "Who is he?"
"Jimmie Cruze was one of those who had not forgotten me. He gave me a bit in 'Merton of the Movies,' but I had worried so much that I did not look very well on the screen, and so my bit brought me no other offers. Then, much later, Richard A. Rowland, who used to be the head of the old Metro Company, where my husband made his last pictures, came across me. He was very kind, and saw to it that I obtained work with First National."
Harold Lockwood, Jr., will soon appear in pictures. He is now about twenty, and with the vague recollection I have of his father, I should say he is very much like him. He is very well thought of at the studios. At present he is with First National, and it is not unlikely he will one day be as popular as his famous father.
Only last year the picture industry experienced momentary sorrow in the sudden death of Charles Emmett Mack, who was killed in a motor accident. Yet that terrible catastrophe was soon forgotten — even by those who knew him well. There were very few who thought of his young wife, left alone with her twelve-year-old adopted daughter, and her three-year-old son.
Just now, Marion Mack is feeling the pulse of a new life, though no one can appreciate the bitter suffering she has been through.
"I was new to Hollywood," Marion remarked. I knew very few picture people. Yet, though I only knew May McAvoy on the screen, she came to me and was
perfectly wonderful. I could not say anything at the time. I just let her take me here and there, and do things for me."
Charlie Mack and his young wife had the thrill of their young lives when they finally possessed their own home. It was a nice, attractive place out in Westwood, several miles outside Hollywood.
"We were just like silly kids," Marion related. "When Charlie came home at night, we would draw the curtains, turn on all the lights and sit down and look at the rooms. We didn't have very much furniture, but it was all very dreamlike."
Most of Charlie Mack's money had been invested in his home. What little they had saved went for funeral expenses.
Marion, alone, had weeks of nightmare in worrying' about bills, about the home she might lose, and about the children. No one bothered about her. It hardly seemed that she knew any one. She nearly went blind from excessive crying.
"It was then that May McAvoy came forward," she said. "Warner Brothers had also been most kind to me. They later gave me work. Of course I started only in bits, but I love it now. Dolores Costello and her sister, Helene, who only knew me slightly, came over and made me feel at home. Paul Panzer also made himself known to me, and made me much happier."
Percy Westmore, a young make-up artist at MetroGoldwyn, was a complete stranger to Mrs. Mack, but he spent two hours on her make-up one day, because he thought she was to be given a test for a role in "The Enemy." [Continued on page 107]