When the movies were young (1925)

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CHAPTER VIII DIGGING IN "T T TELL, we're in the movies — we're working in the »» moving pictures." "Moving pictures? You're working in moving pictures? What do you mean, you're working in moving pictures?" "We're working at a place — they call it a studio — acting in little plays — dramas, and comedies — a camera takes pictures while we act, and the pictures are shown in those five and ten-cent theatres that are all around the town, mostly on Third and Ninth Avenues and Fourteenth Street — such high-class neighborhoods." "Those dreadful places ? I wouldn't be seen going into one of them." Yes, that was the attitude in those dark and dismal days when David signed that contract with the Biograph Company. For one year now, those movies so covered with slime and so degraded would have to come first in his thoughts and affections. That was only fair to the job. But only one who had loved the theater as he had, and had dreamed as he had of achieving success therein, could know what heartaches this strange new affiliation was to bring to him. Times came, agonizing days, when he would have given his life to be able to chuck the job. Mornings when on arising he would gaze long, long moments out 53