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SHOWMAN
That made a tremendous hit with the audience, but I didn't get the idea. I never did see what an asset Fairbanks' acrobatics were until the movies pointed it out to me. With his first production for Paramount— it was called "In Again, Out Again"— he became the leaping, bounding, balcony-climbing hero of American youth. But in these early stages he was just a highly magnetic juvenile who had a hard time getting on with the rest of the cast, so far as I was concerned.
No doubt Fairbanks' temperament had a good deal to do with the way he got across to an audience. But its regardlessness did not make him popular with his coworkers on the stage, which was unhandy for everybody, including me as manager. It did come in very handy once, however— when I produced that tremendous revival of "The Lights o' London," with a cast including Holbrook Blinn, Marguerite Clarke, Doris Keane, Tom Wise, William Courtney, Lawrance D'Orsay, Jeffries Lewis, Leonore Harris, Thomas Q. Seabrooke— and Fairbanks in the role of Philosopher Jack. His big scene was in a market where he jumped out from behind a cabbage wagon and started battling a crowd of supers single-handed, the curtain coming down on the shindy at its height. It was a fine thing, being just Fairbanks' dish. All the finer because the supers all had it in for him and it was usually anything but a fake fight. Eight times a week they ganged up on him and gave him a good two minutes of brisk battering. Every now and again they got so earnest about it that we had to
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