When the movies were young (1925)

216 When the Movies were Young began paying ardent attentions to little Gertrude. Marshall had fallen in love with Gertrude from seeing her on the screen, and he told Allan Dwan with whom he had worked at the American Film Company in Santa Barbara that he was going to marry the cute little kid. In the fall of 19 12 the funny little hop-skip girl had arrived on the scene in New York. When he got back to the City, Mr. Griffith had found need for her, and he fussed ; and finally Mr. Hammer told him to send for her. Two tickets were accordingly rushed west to Los Angeles, one for Mae and one for Mae's mama. In due time two members of the Marsh family arrived. The day they reached the East the company was working outside at some place with a meaningful name like "Millville," where we took small country-town stuff. The two Marshes were so excited when they got off the train in New York and dashed to the studio at 1 1 East Fourteenth Street and found the company working outdoors that they departed immediately for "Millville." They must get right on location. So to "location" they hied. And when they had fluttered on to the scene, and Mr. Griffith looked up and saw his Mae, and not his Mae's mama, but the fair Margaret, Mae's sister, he was pretty mad about it. Margaret Loveridge, as soon as sister Mae's star began to rise in the movie heavens, changed her name to "Marguerite Marsh"; but to her intimates she became "Lovey Marsh." little Mae Marsh back on the job, did a lot of extra work before she got a part. Mr. Griffith worked hard with her, especially when a scene called for a sudden transition from tranquillity to terrible alarm. But a bright idea came to