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Warner had turned over his entire life-savings, two thousand dollars, to his brother-in-law, sight unseen, to be invested in a garage. After the collapse of this, his wife returned to Philadelphia. They never met again and were eventually divorced. Stranded in Tulsa, Oklahoma, W arner turned to the stage. He was engaged by the North Brothers Stock Company to play juvenile parts at twenty-live dollars per week. The ball had started rolling. From juvenile he was soon progressing to leading man, with a salary of thirty-five dollars. Motion pictures began to intrigue his interest. He headed for Hollywood where the motion picture industry was already flourishing in 1914, but what could be hoped by a young actor from Oklahoma? No one brushed off the "welcome" mat, nor polished the front doorbell in anticipation of his arrival. He had very little money. He rented an attic bedroom in Hollywood, and literallystarved while making the rounds of the casting offices. He was a good salesman of farm implements, an ace at selling insurance, but when it came to selling Warner Baxter to the motion picture industry, he was a total loss. It was during the regime of silent pictures, of course. Baxter possessed all the requisites for screening — a picture face and the ability to act. But, like Clark Gable and other aspirants, he could not convince the casting directors. Still optimistic, when everything seemed stacked against him, Warner stuck to his vision. He could be patient. Some day he would win. He knew in his heart and soul he would get his "break" at the right time and in the right way. He did. Oliver Morosco, operating one of the finest stock companies the Pacific Coast has ever known, granted the boy an interview, had him read a part ; signed him on a longterm contract. The first thing Warner did was to send for his mother. She entrained for Los Angeles at once, arriving before Warner made his debut at the Burbank Theatre on Main Street. He met her at the train ; after an affectionate embrace, he suggested they have something to eat. When they had finished their dinner, the boy looked at his mother rather shyly : "Mums, have you any money to pay for this?" He was absolutely broke and had been without food for two days. But he was rehearsing to appear on a Los Angeles stage and was so elated that the food problem did not bother him. He opened at the Sunday matinee in "Under Cover" with Edmund Lowe and Frances Ring playing the leading roles. Mother was with him and the world again beautiful. Transcendingly so, very soon now, with the coming of love — the real thing this time! The day of his first rehearsal, Warner arrived in front of the theatre ahead of time — he is always on time for appointments. As he passed the lobby of the theatre he observed a beautiful girl chatting with friends. "What a gorgeous-looking girl !" He was so impressed with her brunette loveliness that he had to have another glance at her. He passed up and down before the lobby five times in all. Gaining courage with each trip, he smiled at the girl who returned his salutation with her own winsome smile. When the company gathered on the stage for the rehearsal, he found the lovely lady had preceded him. She was Winifred Bryson, a member of the company. She seemed interested in him and it was not until months afterward that he learned Miss Bryson's concern for him had been purely humanitarian at the start. "His cheeks were so sunken, his face so ghastly white, I felt I simply had to feed him," she explained later. Pity being akin to love, it was not long before Winifred Bryson and Warner Baxter were the central figures in a romance deeply satisfying to both. First of all, they were friends. They understood each other, liked the same things, were true comrades. Both had fought their way upward ; both knew what it was to be homeless, to find home only in an attic bedroom. Both wanted above all else a substantial permanent home of their own. Where should it be? Los Angeles was decided on. Nothing seemed to prevent. Warner had saved his money steadily through the four years of his courtship. Since that two-thousanddollar garage loss, he was more than ever inclined to be thrifty; never would he splurge again. His picture prospects seemed of the brightest. They bought a charming little home on Beechwood Drive, in the exclusive Wiltshire district, and no two children with Christmas toys could have felt more delight than the two Baxters at this glorious forward step in the career. They owned a home at last ; such a charming one, too, expressing all the harmony and hospitality for which they were becoming famed in the film colony. Who could have foreseen, just when all looked fairest, Warner was to have his first serious tumble from the bandwagon ! The picture, "Marriage Circle," was his undoing. He had been chosen and signed for leading man above many contestants, but even the first day on the set he was apprehensive. He w:as not convinced he wanted to play the part after all. As outlined to him by Ernst Lubitsch, the great European director, it seemed too theatrical, too unbelievable. Furthermore, the Continental technique rather baffled the actor. Inherently honest, he felt he could never bring himself to the point where he could feel natural and sincere in delineating the role. He asked to be excused from playing the part. Monte Blue was at once assigned to it. The picture was one of the first to be filmed in Hollywood by a Continental director. It was an over-night sensation. Monte Blue soared to sensational heights, became a star. Stoically enough, Baxter never referred to the matter since. He felt he would have been miscast. He probably was right. Sometimes an opportunity that seemingly points to great success may be rejected wisely. "It might be a failure that would be hard to live down," he told a friend the day he left the cast. Lean days followed, even the loss of his first home, but he never lost hope. He knew his real opportunity to scale the cinema heights would come, eventually. "Faith comes to us when we cease to think of external things as having power over us and realize that God, having all power, will bring good to pass in our lives," he said in reply to a fellow artist, apprehensive about his own future. "Be patient with yourself and with the working things in your life, with the details of your business affairs and with those with whom you are associated. You cannot hasten things by your