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The Old Days End 227
he wrote to New York to ask Mr. Griffith for a job. Mr. Griffith asked Miss Bambrick if it was her wish to have Marshall come on, but Gertrude wasn't so anxious. David had him come just the same.
The K. and E. pictures, especially "Men and Women" and "Classmates," gave Marshall Neilan his big chance. He soon fell into the producing ranks, where recognition came quickly.
And he married his Gertrude. Marshall Neilan, Jr., is now nine years old. But they didn't live happily forever after. Many years ago they parted. Just recently Mr. Neilan married Blanche Sweet.
By fall, with four and five companies working, there were so many actors that it wasn't interesting at all any more. There was Millicent Evans and Georgie O'Ramey, Louise Vale, Travers Vale, Louise Orth, Jack Mulhal, Thomas Jefferson, Lionel Barrymore, Franklin Ritchie, Lily Cahill, Donald Crisp, Dorothy Bernard, Edwin August, Alan Hale, William Jefferson — oh, slews and slews of new ones, besides the old guard minus Mary Pickford.
From Chatsworth's lonely stretches and prehistoric atmosphere to the spic-and-span-ness, and atmosphere-less Bronx studio came "Judith of Bethulia" to receive its finishing touches. "Judith" was about the last of Blanche Sweet in anything as pretentious directed by Mr. Griffith.
Mae Marsh was coming along and so was Lillian Gish. Lillian was beginning to step some, and it was interesting to watch the rather friendly rivalry between the three, Blanche, and Mae, and Lillian.
Dorothy Gish was still a person of insignificance, but she was a good sport about it ; a likable kid, a bit too perky to interest the big director, so her talents blushed unnoticed