Screenland (May-Jul 1926)

SCREENLAND 9} very 1 tired but only the two men on the back seat fell asleep. Mary Louise and young Hubbard, driving, had too much to talk about. First hot, then cold, soaring to the heights and dropping back in the pit of despair, Walter Page told the girl about the picture he was making. No one had believed in it or him and so he was producing with his own money — and he had painfully little currency. Every foot of film counted and he had resorted to all kinds of subter' fuges in order to shoot his masterpiece, an example of which Mary Louise had just witnessed at the Tijuana track. Salaries were the most important item on the expense sheet; Hubbard simply couldn't pay them. The actor on the back seat, for instance, demanded a hundred dollars a day cash. Fortunately they wouldn't require him longer than two days, but Walter Page confessed that the very thought of engaging a heroine made his blood run cold. Fifthrate stars cTemanded daily settlements and raised their salaries sky-high when he approached them. Everybody in Hollywood seemed to know he was working on a shoestring and so far he had failed to find a single soul who was willing to take a chance and string along with him. A dozen times during his story Mary Louise opened her mouth to offer her services and each time the actual words failed her. She wasn't even a fifth-rate star. Yet the character he explained to her got under her skin; Mary Louise saw the Girl, understood her temptations and sympathized with her efforts to climb back. It was almost as if Hubbard's heroine were someone she knew. "Any Day", he called his picture; well, such things were happening every day, not only in Hollywood, but all over the world. '.'That's what makes it worth while," Mary Louise told him, letting her fingers rest momentarily on his hand. "I believe in you." "Do you?" asked Walter Page, with a curious little note in his voice. 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