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124 When the Movies were Young
us lemon meringue pies. The actors were always hoping the cook would leave, or get sick, or die, so Mrs. Predmore could cook all the dinner.
Sometimes we were very merry at dinner. When Arthur Johnson would arrive bowing himself gallantly in, in a manner bred of youthful days as a Shakespearean actor with the Owen Dramatic Company, loud and hearty applause would greet him, which he'd accept with all the smiling, gracious salaams of the old-time ten, twenty, and thirty tragedian.
Evening at Cuddebackville !
The biggest thrill would be an automobile ride to Middletown, nine miles away. If Mr. Predmore weren't busy after dinner, he'd take us. It was a joyful ride over the mountains to Middletown, quite the most priceless fun of an evening. Every one was eager for it except the little groups of twos, who, sentimentally inclined, were paddling a canoe out on the basin or down the canal. There would be Mary Pickford and Owen Moore, and James Kirkwood and Gertrude Robinson, and Stanner E. V. Taylor and Marion Leonard, experiencing tense moments in the silence broken only by the drip, drip of the paddle beneath the mellow moon. Romance got well under way at Cuddebackville.
The evening divertisements became more complex as we became better acquainted. "Wally" Walthall, Arthur Johnson, and Mack Sennett became our principal parlor entertainers. "Wally" rendered old southern ditties as only a true southern gentleman from Alabama could.
Arthur Johnson and Mack Sennett did good team-work ; they were our Van and Schenck. Arthur, who presided at