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130 Picture Show Annual ta rehearsing a scene with Jack Mulhall for " Within the Law. On Top : Constance and the dummy figure that saves her many camera rehearsals. Norma makes a Start I T was one of these cellar performances that finally decided Norma’s career. The piece she had written was called “ The Princess and the Slave. ” Norma was the Princess and Constance the Slave. There had been some friction before the cast was settled for Constance not unnaturally wanted to be the princess. But Norma, who at that early age had begun to show she was something of a manager, prevailed on her sister to play the slave by telling her she would have a gorgeous dress of black trunks and golden slippers and that there would be a part written in for her where she could perform her circus stunts. Among the guests that evening was a Mr. Hodge, a friend of the Talmadge family, and he was so impressed with Norma’s acting that he persuaded her mother to let him give them an introduction to the Vitagraph Studios, with which he had some business connection. Mrs. Talmadge thought long and hard before she consented, Norma was still at High School, but the time was fast ap- proaching when she would have to find some situation. The Talmadge family were hard up, and they always had been. Mr. Talmadge was a travelling salesman and it had been hard work for Mrs. Talmadge to bring up the three girls and give them a decent education. So she decided that Norma should take a chance in the movies if she could get in. Norma was in the seventh heaven of delight when she heard the news. Almost the only-entertainment Mrs. Talmadge had been able to afford the children and herself was a weekly visit to the local picture house, and Norma’s hero and heroine at the time were Maurice Costello and Florence Turner. The interview with Mr. Wilmore, the then director of Vitagraph, was successful, and Norma was engaged as one of the stock company at twenty-five dollars a week. Thus she got into the pictures without ever playing as an extra. Her first important part was in a three-reel film, “ The Tale of Two Cities, ” and soon afterwards she left New York to go to Hollywood to take up a biggish contract with D. W. Griffith. On left ; Constance at her daily exercises.