When the movies were young (1925)

138 When the Movies were Young Kershaw Ince. In deep mourning for her mother who had just been killed in an accident, and all alone, with a tiny baby at home, she put in brave hours for her little fivedollar bills. When six o'clock came and her work was not finished, how she fretted about her little one. That baby, Tom Ince's eldest child "Billy," is now a husky lad and he probably doesn't know how we all worried over him then. Miss Kershaw played sad little persons such as the maid in "The Course of True Love," flower girls, and match girls, in wispy clothes, on cold November days, offering their wares on the streets of Coytesville and Fort Lee. There was the blond and lily-like Blanche Sweet, an undeveloped child too young to play sweethearts and wives, but a good type for the more insignificant parts, such as maids and daughters. David wanted to use her this first winter in a picture called "Choosing a Husband," so he tried her out, but finding her so utterly unemotional, he dismissed her saying, "Oh, she's terrible." Then he tried Miss Barker and had her play the part. But he directed Miss Sweet in her first picture, "All on Account of a Cold." Mr. Powell liked Miss Sweet's work, and so did Doc, and so Mr. Powell used her in the first picture he directed, "All on Account of the Milk." Mr. Powell was rehearsing in the basement of No. 1 1 while Mr. Griffith was doing the same upstairs. Mary Pickford played the daughter and Blanche Sweet, the maid, and in the picture they change places. On the back porch of a little farmhouse a rendezvous takes place with the milkman. It was bitterly cold, and even though the girls wore woolen dresses under their cotton aprons, they looked like frozen turnips. The scenes being