Screenland (Sept 1922–Feb 1923)

Haiy-ooA SCRBENLAND c%ufi™» 63 The Same Little Tess (Continued from Page 47.) on the beach in a few rags, barefooted. I'd run in the spray until Mother was frantic about me — but I actually gained and grew strong! "Then came that terrible rain storm, when people were drowned on the streets of Los Angeles. Why we had a house on St. Andrews, and somebody left a coupe parked on the street at our corner. Three days it poured — we were marooned — and that car was covered the water was so deep! "Mr. Porter had brought this book over to me and said he thought it would make a wonderful picture. But I was tired of grimy-ragged heroines, and I said No — I would NOT do it!" Laughter danced in her hazel eyes — "Temperamental! O, I knew everything those days! I had no money in the bank" (roguish pursed lips) "but had lots of temperament! "So I said NO! " 'Now, Murry,' Mr. Porter always called me Murry, 'you just keep this book and read it — you will like it I know,' he said. "So, I did — and I've learned to respect his judgment now— I did like it, and I called him up the next day and apoligized — and agreed to make Tess!" C"HE studied the sets built on this lovely ^lakc — sets that might have been brought from a fishing village on Cayuga Lake itself and dropped on this sunny shore. "Aren't they wonderful?" she cried, "just a marvel of tumble-down, rickety old clapboard shacks! We scoured the country for really old, weather-seasoned boards. "When we made Tess before we used the old Japanese fishing village above Santa Monica! And we had — well, not over six interiors! We built Teola's room, and the kitchen, and the court room and the church interior. But for the exteriors we used a little house at the top of Angel's Flight — no, Court's Flight, it was — above Hilt' street at First." Laughter crept into the tones of her clefcr voice. "We used one side of that house for the court house — then we sprinkled a little salt before the door on the other side, for the church!" She laughed gaily and pointed up a hillside where an imposing colonnade marked a terraced pergola. "Nothing like that then." "Why, we never had a re-take! We didn't know the meaning of dailies! We never even saw a single shot of the picture we were making! Each day the film was shipped to NeWYork to be developed, as fast as we made it! I did not see Tess until long after it had been released in the East. We had to go to Tally's Broadway theater to see it ! "The first Tess could ndt\ave cost over eight thousand dollars. We paid fifty thousand just to buy back all the rights before we began to shoot thlil We're going to make a beautiful picture of this. — I hope people will love it as much as 1 do *' You like this setting and these shacks? So do' I. I don't know what we'll do with s all this — we'll clear it all off and leave the place in order. I suppose the shacks will make a grand bonfire — all except this one, my dressing room. It is quite com-* plete, with even a bath tub. We'll haul it down the valley and give it to a very, very poor family we found living in a drygoods box!" "Ready for you, Miss Pickford " "Yes, Mr. Robertson — coming!" \ The Price You Pay For dingy film on teeth Let us show you by a ten-day test how combating film in this new way .beautifies the teeth Now your teeth are coated with a viscous film. You can feel it with your tongue. It clings to teeth, enters crevices and stays. It forms the basis of fixed cloudy coats. That film resists the tooth brush. No ordinary tooth paste can effectively combat it. That is why so many well-brushed teeth discolor and decay. Keeps teeth dingy Film absorbs stains, making the teeth look dingy. Film is the basis of tartar. It holds food substance which ferments and forms acids. It holds the acids in contact with the teeth to cause decay. Millions of germs breed in it. 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