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tinting The Plow Girl. He did everything himself and he did nothing without her. In the projection room they discussed in minute detail how to assemble close, medium and long shots. Bob was expert; he trusted no one else to touch "our" picture. Meanwhile he was preparing a shooting script for The Mormon Maid from the story by Paul West.
This story she didn't like; it was too stark with its constant confusion and sorrow, the white-hooded Mormon angels forcing other people to their way of life. Bob explained that they must make the picture, the studio was committed to it. But he pointed out that in the early scenes she'd have a chance to be delightfully tomboyish and that later, with her family endangered, she'd have a chance to show more genuine dramatic power than in any picture so far. He was writing the script himself to be sure the emphasis was right.
They shot The Mormon Maid mostly at night at the Lasky Ranch, the air so cold she scarcely dared breathe for fear of fogging on camera. Bob had the brush beaten every night for snakes, then white-hooded angels went tearing across country and she with them. Several times she had to be switched from one horse to another going full gallop. Bob would have gotten her a double but she said no, no boy with a blonde wig would look like her and she wasn't frightened. Not of anything. When they filmed the Indian raid, the only convenient tree for her to climb was the skinniest little elm imaginable. They drove in cleats and up she went, not noticing how absurdly thin it was until they saw the rushes. There was the girl, in boots and skin dress, perched like a flower in a tree no thicker than a stem. But at the time she'd been marveling at Bob on his high platform, directing the "Indians." He handled a hundred elements, blending them like a good choreographer. And like a good choreographer he appreciated her gestures, the way when, weary, she became limp, or, holding her lover in a moment of anguish, put her arms about him with her small fists doubled. He kept his eye on her, she knew that he saw everything.
When they shot on the set, reporters and photographers were
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