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"Then I sit down in the waiting room with Mclctone, my bags and my one dollar, and I wonder why I come to thees country where I do not know anyone and where I am so hungry. Pretty soon I couldn't stand it and I bought some coffee and a hot dog. Meletonc had half. Then I took my bags out and sat on the curb to wait for a taxi. 'I will ride seventy-five cents worth and see where I am," 1 thought. Some boys come by and laugh and winkle at me. I laugh and winkle back. In my country it is only fun to winkle at a mans, but in thees country it means something. So they get fresh and then I get mad." "I get in a taxi ' 'otel,' I say. ^ 'What 'otel? he say. I don't know any 'otel so I just say again, ' 'otel!' 'What 'otel? he say, and so we do like that, ' 'otel,' 'What 'otel?' ' 'otel,' 'What 'otel?' for half an hour almost. Then he drive me off and I watch the meter. Every time it go up ten cents I jump. Then we turned on Broadway and I forgot all about the meter. I thought I was in heaven. So many lights, so many people and so much traffic! Was wonderful. We stop and I remember the meter again. $1.75. What am I to do for another dollar, I thought, and then I went into the hotel and there at the desk was a cookoo man." "What on earth's a cookoo man?' I asked. "You know, a mans with his two eyes looking at each other." "Oh, a cross-eyed man," I said. "Yes, in my country very bad luck. I run out and say to that driver, 'What you bring me to a 'otel where ees a cookoo man?' He say, 'Well, what 'otel then?' Se we begin that all over again. Then I think ofRichard Bennett. I have never see him but he is the only name I know to ask. 'Richard Bennett,' I say, and the driver he understand after awhile and telephone to the theatre. Richard say for me to go to his 'otel and he tell them I am all right and that he will stand the bill until I get a job. Oh my, what I eat. Everything! And Meletone! What he eat that night! "Then I say to Richard, 'Well, I cannot play in your play but I can sing and dance. Can I not get a job in your nice country? So he help me and pretty soon I play with Fanchon and Marco. But what you think. The first night I am in thees country came a mans with a contract for me to sign and he say I can't stay here unless I sign. What I know about thees country? And I want to stay, so I sign. It was not to get me a job but when I got one I had to pay him twenty-five percent of my salary. I free of him now but I have to pay him thousands of dollars. "Well, I play with Fanchon and Marco only a little time and then Hal Roach want me to take a test for pictures. And I laugh hard at him. 'Me, in pictures! How can I be in pictures. I ogly. I not pretty!' But they made me do, and then I play and then they want me for 'The Gaucho.' Douglas Fairbanks is the sweetest thing, and Mary Pickford is the loveliest womans what you ever met in your whole life. She was so kind and showed me all my make-up and what I looked best in. She was all the time helping me to make good. "And now I have this lovely house and my beautiful cars and my radiola and Amelio and Meletone here with me and the American peoples have give me all this. I am so happy — all day long. And I am so grateful. I don't care if I work all night like I have done on this last picture. My goodness, sometimes I think my eyes won't open. We work till one-thirty. It is past two before I can get to bed with an eight o'clock call. That means I have to get up at six fifteen. Was terrible. What I must look like in those close-ups! But now it is over and I can sleep all day." She flicked the ash of her cigarette in the instep of her slipper and^ looked up at me with an elfish grin. "Am I not awful? I am very lazy. Over there," she waved to a small table of trays about ten feet away, "over there ees a long walk." She has the ability to conserve her strength for things she must do and save herself steps that she considers unimportant. In a second she was on her feet again and showing me a new dance that she liked. I admired a black lacquer bench shaped in half a moon standing on short, golden legs. "I paint that," said Lupe, slapping a prideful chest with delight that her work had been noticed. "Ees not done yet, I have not enough gold paint for the hind legs." Lupe, between pictures, is anything but a stay-at-home. As soon as she is rested up she goes everywhere and sees everything. "But I will never marry," she told me. "Soon as I get a husband I would not like him. Not marry, then you always like your friends." Richard Dix Tells the Truth Continued from page 23 Day FREE TRIAL ANITA INSTITUTE. /Correct your NOSE to perfect shape while you sleep. Anita Nose Adjuster guarantees SAFE, rapid, permanent results. Age doesn't matter. Painless. 60,000 doctors, users praise it. Gold Medal Winner. BOOKLET FREE Write for it TODAY C-69 Anita Bldg.. Newark. N. J. lifted my heart out of my bosom. But would they buy it for me? Not in a million years. And so I lost it. Dick Barthelmess is going to play it. I think they're calling it 'Scarlet Seas.' I'm glad he got it — even if I couldn't. "But it's all different now," said Dix, more cheerfully. "Anybody with a lick of vision can see that sound pictures are here to stay — unquestionably. But mind you, I don't necessarily mean the all-talkie. I mean the film with some measure of sound in it. And I'm for them — heart, body and soul. And quite selfishly, too. I figured I was through when they came along. Now I have something to stick my teeth into. It's a fight. A fight to the death among movie stars, and like the fight of the human race, only the fit will survive, those whose voices and personalities will lend themselves to talking films. It's on the knees of the gods. This is the greatest gamble we stars have ever taken! I may be rotten — the next man excellent. But whether I'm rotten or not, I've got another chance to try! "You must remember while we're talking about this new invention that all our reactions today have been from the key cities — ■ that is the largest cities — only. For the smaller cities and towns haven't been able to have their picture houses wired yet. But just wait until you get returns from them! It is my belief that the Star System, instead of being wiped out as so many claim it will, will grow into a bigger and more important regime than ever before. And the reason for it will be the same reason that built up the matinee idols of years ago! And that reason is that those artists were able to express many tremendous varying ^emotions by the sheer force of personality."