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64 When the Movies were Young
not long after our A. B. affiliation, just as I was entering the main foyer, Mr. Griffith coming from the projection room seemed more than usually light-hearted. So I said, "You're feeling good — picture nice?"
"Oh, yes, all right, but" — this in a whisper — "Wake's been fired."
I wondered how I could wait all that day, until evening, to hear what had happened. But I did, and learned that Mr. Wake with Biograph money had purchased silk stockings for Mutoscope girls, and then had given the girls the stockings for their own.
However, during a temporary absence from the studio before Mr. Wake's dismissal, Frank Woods came down with three more suggestions which were shown to Mr. Griffith direct. He bought the whole bunch, three at fifteen dollars apiece, nine jlvc-dollar bills, forty-five dollars.
Around the Dramatic Mirror offices Mr. Woods was already jocularly being called "M. P. Woods." And this day that he disposed of his three "suggestions," Moving Picture Woods with much bravado entered the Mirror's office, went over to the desk, brushed aside some papers, cleared a place on the counter, and in a row laid his nine five-dollar bills.
In the office at the time were George Terwilliger (how many scenarios he afterwards wrote), Al Trahern (Al continued with his stock companies and featuring his wife Jessie Mae Hall), and Jake Gerhardt, now in the business end of the movies. The trio looked — and gasped — and looked — and in unison spoke:
'Where did you get all that?"
"Moving Pictures!"
"Moving Pictures? For heaven's sake, tell us about it."