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knocking about at sea, was preparing to enter Professor George Baker's famous playwriting class at Harvard, on his way to becoming America's most celebrated playwright of a later era.
Naturally we all were anxious for our first close glimpse of Lily Langtry, the "Jersey Lily/' whose beauty was celebrated in song and story. Born on the Isle of Jersey, she had first gained success on the London stage, but her fame had long since spread around the world.
Dan Frohman brought her to the studio for arrangement of the final terms. We gathered about with proper awe. Though now past sixty, much of her beauty remained—though her straight, but full, features might now have better been described as handsome.
I noticed Porter standing aside, studying her. I joined him.
He shook his head. "She won't photograph well. Too heavy."
I shrugged. "We can't turn the clock back forty years. Anyhow, the public wants to see the great Lily Langtry."
The vehicle which she had chosen was His Neighbors Wife. Some critics would have it that the films introduced melodrama. They should look up the old plays.
Miss Langtry's role was that of a devoted wife whose husband, a colonel, is having an affair with his neighbor's wife. The neighbor, discovering the affair, tells Lily about it, and, to mix things up in a highly melodramatic fashion, demands that she elope with him or else he will shoot the colonel down. To save her husband Lily agrees but first accuses him and he begs forgiveness. The