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First Publicity and Early Scenarios 67
Mr. Griffith read them over the second time. They threshed out their differences in friendly argument. So Lee Dougherty became the first scenario editor.
And of the sad letters and grateful ones his editing jobs brought him, this letter from a newspaper man on a Dayton, Ohio, paper, now dead, he prizes most highly :
L. E. Dougherty, Editor,
KlNEMACOLOR COMPANY,
Los Angeles, Calif.
Dear Sir:
Excuse me, but I can't help it. When I cashed the $25 check for "Too Much Susette," the scenario of mine which you accepted, I took $5 of the money and put it on "Just Red" who won at Louisville at the juicy price of 30 to I. I hope the film will bring your company as much luck as the script has brought me.
Yours very truly,
George Groeber.
"Doc" was Mr. Griffith's friendly appellation for "the man in the front office," Lee Dougherty. It was going some for Mr. Griffith to give any one a nickname. He never was a "hail fellow well met." It was Mr. So-and-so from Mr. Griffith and to Mr. Griffith with very few exceptions. Never once during all the Biograph years did he ever publicly call even his own wife by any other name than "Miss Arvidson." Only in general conversation about the movies, and in his absence, was he familiarly referred to as "Griff," or "D. W.," or the "Governor."
Mr. Dougherty was the one man at 1 1 East Fourteenth Street before the Griffith regime who had more than a speaking acquaintance with the movies. In the summer of 1896 as stage manager of the old Boston Museum, he in