When the movies were young (1925)

144 When the Movies were Young were doing good things and were going to send a company to California for the winter, which would mean a regular salary for the time away. And so arrived Mr. Dell Henderson, who became leading man for the night company at five per night. The demands for physical beauty that he had to fulfil certainly should have earned more than the ordinary five. He had to be so handsome that his jealous wife prevails upon thugs to waylay him and scar for life his manly beauty so that the admiring women will let him alone. This movie, "The Love of Lady Irma," was one of the first pictures Mr. Powell directed. Florence Barker, who became the leading woman for the No. 2 California Comedy Company, played Lady Irma, the jealous wife. She had joined the company in December, her first picture being "The Dancing Girl of Butte," in which she was cast with Owen Moore and Mack Sennett. It was in these days that Eleanor Kershaw did her bit ; also Dorothy West and Ruth Hart. Miss Hart, now Mrs. Victor Moore and the mother of two children, played the sweet domestic wife, a role Mr. Griffith felt she was a good exponent of, and which she has successfully continued in her private life. Frank Grandin appears in his first leading part, playing The Duke in "The Duke's Plan"; and our atmospheric genial Englishman, Charles Craig, affiliated the same month, playing opposite Mary Pickford in "The Englishman and the Girl." The studio was now a busy place. A Civil War picture had to be rushed through before we could get away. Mr. Powell was busy engaging actors for it and had just completed his cast of principals when he bumped into an actor