When the movies were young (1925)

Wardrobe— and a Few Personalities 75 to perform. In that picture she was not "principal guest" but the "maid." Flora Finch was a guest. Miss Finch in another Jones movie becomes a book agent soliciting Mr. Jones in his office. In "Mr. Jones has a Card Party," Mack Sennett appears as one of husband's rummies, and in yet another "Jones," Owen Moore, first husband of Mary Pickford, is seen as "atmosphere" escorting a lady from a smart cafe. So chameleon-like were our social relations in the "Jones Comedy Series." A Flora Finch tidbit here comes to light. Though fifteen years have elapsed, they have not dimmed the memory of the one hundred and eighty-five feet of "Those Awful Hats." The exhibitor was told: "It will make a splendid subject to start a show with instead of the customary slides." The "set" represented the interior of a moving picture theatre. The company was audience. Miss Finch was also "audience," only arriving late she had a separate entrance. Miss Finch wore an enormous hat. When she was seated, no one at the back or side of her could see a thing. But out of the unseen ceiling, soon there dropped an enormous pair of iron claws (supposedly iron) that closed tightly on the hat and head of the shrieking Miss Finch, lifting her bodily out of her seat and holding her suspended aloft in the studio heaven. How many times that scene was rehearsed and taken! It grew so late and we were all so sleepy that we stopped counting. But pay for overtime evolved from this picture. The members of the stock company that had grown up worked on a guaranty of so many days a week. Now with so much night work our director felt that the actors not on "guaranties" should be recompensed and it was ruled that after 7 p.m. they would receive three extra dol