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a Chance
By
Ruth Tildesley
to me, answered that appeal," smiled Mrs. Brandeis. "All varieties of infants were urged upon me. Strident mothers and shy mothers, stolid babies and vivacious ones — I was almost mobbed! But at length I selected a hundred youngsters, imported Universal^ child star, Zoe Ray, and made my picture.
"I made the film simply as a pastime, thinking it would be a souvenir for my grandchildren, if I ever had any, so I was pleasantly surprised when a Chicago company bought my picture. It is still being shown in schools and churches."
Even after that, the idea of becoming a professional didn't enter her head. Her own baby, Marie Madeline, arriving a few years later, occupied her so fully that it was not until the child was three years old and the Brandeises had come to the parting of the ways that she made another picture.
This time it was "Not One to Spare," a two-reel picture from the famous poem in an old Fourth Reader. Renaud Hoffman, whom Mrs. Brandeis met at a social affair after she had come to Hollywood, sug' gested the story and directed it.
That was the taste
'€[ "The Little Dutch Tulip Girl" was filmed in Volendam, Holland.
C[ Two little native actors in "The Little Indian 'Weaver."
C[ Left: the boy star and his sup' port in "The Little S wiss Wood Carver," produced in the Alps.
(I Below: Bill Reid, Wally's son; Barbara Denny, and Erich von Stro' heim, Jr.
(f Left: a scene from "Jeanne of France," ta\en in a Paris shop.
that calls for more. "The Shining Adventure," directed by Hugo Ballin, was a Brandeis production with two child actors, Mary Jane Irving and Ben Alexander, which grew from two to five reels under her enthusiastic eyes.
Christmas, 1927, was celebrated by the woman producer with "Young Hollywood."
"It seemed to me a great idea to use the children of stars in a film," she explained. "I knew that it would be impossible to get them through casting directors, but I knew their parents, so I suggested that it might be fun to have them work during the holidays. Then they needn't miss school and they'd have the experience.
"My cast consisted of D'Arcy, son of Tim McCoy, Mary Jo, daughter (Com. on page 98)
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