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Star-dust in Hollywood
members of the film industry, those perennially hopeful aspirants and supernumerary actors called " extras." While sketching the production of Douglas Fairbanks* Twenty Tears After, Jo overheard a conversation between two young supers. Their Middle Western accents accorded ill with their seventeenth-century French laces and velvets. Mary
Pickford had just come in to watch the progress of her husband's film. Her sweetness exhausted their adjectives for a time, then they passed to a question which had evidently vexed Hollywood. In the last of Fairbanks' productions, The Gaucho, Miss Pickford had elected to act a tiny part, a vision of the Virgin Mary which appeared to the young hero.
" No," declared one girl decisively, " I always will hold, whatever you others may think, that Mary didn't really demean herself by taking that part."
"Well, I dunno," replied the other. "When you think of the kind of money that Mary usually gets ! "
" Why," cried the other, " whatever are you talking about ? Don't you know that Mary did that part for nothing? "
One other inflatus besides those of wealth, mimicry, and newspaper fame distends the star's self-esteem. Thousands of letters come from admirers each week demanding signed photographs. " My public," says the star, " demands this or that of me." The star sees, outside of Hollywood, a whole continent waiting eagerly for her next film, a public in the mind of which she has created an ideal, and an ideal that she
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