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To the West Coast 145
friend, Tommy Ince. It seems Mr. Ince at the moment was "broke." Apologetically, Mr. Powell said he couldn't offer anything much, but if Mr. Ince didn't mind coming in as an "extra" he would give him ten dollars for the day. This quite overcame Tom Ince and he stammered forth, "Glory be" — or words to that effect — "I'd be glad to get five." Only one part did Tom Ince play with Biograph and that was in "The New Lid" with Lucille Lee Stewart, Ralph Ince's wife and sister of Anita Stewart.
I happened to call on Eleanor Hicks Powell one evening in the summer of 19 12 when our only Biograph baby, Baden Powell, had reached the creeping age. During the evening Mr. and Mrs. Tom Ince dropped in. Of course, we talked "movies." Mr. Ince was worrying about an offer he'd had to go to California as manager and leading director of the 10 1 Ranch, Kaybee Company, for one hundred and twentyfive dollars per week, as I remember. He offered me forty dollars to go out as leading woman, but I couldn't see the Indians. Mr. Ince couldn't see them either — but it was the best offer that had come his way.
Mr. Ince made a great success out of the 101 Ranch, but having ambitions to do the "high-class," he moved on in quest of it. Took to developing stars like Charles Ray, Enid Markey, and Dorothy Dalton ; became one of the Triangle outfit with David Griffith and Mack Sennett; exploited dramatic stars like George Beban, Billie Burke, and Enid Bennett; did "Civilization"— but after "The Birth of a Nation."
Who was to go to California and who wasn't? Ah, that was the question ! Some husbands didn't care to leave their wives, and as they couldn't afford to take them, they