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Olive
((cThe Joy Girl"
oft, sad music was drifting through the screens that enclosed Allan Dwan's set at the Fox Studio. Through the megaphone came the di' rector's well ' modulated voice outlining the scene to Olive Borden, who had come east especially to make "The joy Girl".
"This is where you come home disillusioned after your marriage,1'' he was saying. "You pause at the door, ashamed, saddened. Cry a lit' tie, but quietly. Just let your eyes fill."
His tone was matter of fact, and he spoke with the assurance of one who knows the ability of the person with whom he is dealing. Olive, he had found, was not one of those dumb but beautiful automatons who must be conjoled and persuaded into every mood.
Olive had proved, in two short weeks of work, that she was a good trouper who did everything adequately and without fuss. He had found her sensitive, full of perception, and every subtle shading of emotion had been mirrored in her delicate face and expressed by her graceful gestures
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with a "rightness" that is the joy of every director's heart.
So now he was telling her to cry. The electricians stood waiting for the call of "Lights". THc camera men stood ready to grind. The orchestra swung from "Pale Hands" to "Absent" and from "Absent" to Tosti's "Goodbye", yet no tears welled to Olive's eyes. For the first time since the production had begun, she stood uncertain, embarrassed, and did not do as she was told.
Dwan stopped the music with just a trace of impatience in the wave of his megaphone, though his voice was courteous as he asked : "Is there any special music you would like played for this?"
Olive shook her head.
Really, he was thinking, this was unnecessary. Was she going to develop temperament after all? He knew her to be a finished actress with perfect screen technique, and here she was behaving like a scared little amateur doing her first bit. Perhaps she was ill. Maybe tomorrow — he suggested (Cont. on page 99)
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