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Cecil B. De Mille showing 'William Boyd how "the Volga Boatman" would strain and pull on a tow rope. Believe me, C. B. \nows; he has pulled many a heavy load to mar\et.
Ham Seiter; Sally Rand, also witK an escort unknown to me; Ernest Torrence with his wife; Jack Pickford with Ward Crane, and numerous others whom I didn't get to see as the crush was too great.
Twenty-five policemen helped to keep people moving, and it was all they could do to hold them back when Doug and Mary arrived. Mary was the only star at the opening who turned and went back to the sidewalk to wave at the crowd which filled Broadway until traffic had to be diverted three blocks away.
But coming back to Doug's introduction of the
cast. Mary Astor was the first. As usual, her auburn hair and eyes almost exactly the same shade drew murmurs of appreciation from those who knew her only on the screen. She won generous applause, too, from the professional folk in the house.
Warner Oland, who played the arch-duke so well everybody was sorry to see him die, also came on the stage, and he and Doug repeated the brilliant little bi' of pantomime where the Arch-duke, in the picture, i, vited Don Q to show him the town.
Lottie Pickford Forrest was called, then Stella De Lanti, but she was not in the audience. Next came Donald Crisp, the director, who was recalled as the actor — Crisp played the heavy — ■ also Jean Hersholt, the nosy social climber in the picture.
And then Charlie Chaplin was summoned. Doug deserted him, but Charlie was well able to amuse the crowd. "I am going to offer you a little story in the atmosphere of the picture, and in my own language," he began. "If you do not understand it, there is no redress.'''
Whereupon the crowd was given one • those rare treats when Charlie really exte* himself to amuse.
He gave a pantomimic representation bull-fight, dancing back and forth acr stage in character as the bull as w^' toreador.
King Vidor bids by to his pets eaving Holl~ the openiBoheme" wher'
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