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The Old Days End 229
under David Belasco's wing. On her opening, the papers said that the success of Miss Pickford as the little blind princess was so marked that it practically precluded her return to the screen.
Adolph Zukor had followed up his first Famous Players picture, the four-reel "Queen Elizabeth" with James K. Hackett in "The Prisoner of Zenda" and Mrs. Fiske in "Leah Kleschna.,, Astute business man that he was, as soon as "The Good Little Devil" closed, he secured the play for the screen with the dramatic company intact and Mary as a Famous Player.
No, her dramatic success would not preclude her return to the screen. It would merely fortify her with great assurance in making her next picture contract. I am told it happened thus:
Mother and Mary bearded the lion in his den.
"Well, what are you asking now?" queried Mr. Griffith.
"Five hundred a week," answered Mrs. Smith.
"Can't see it. Mary's not worth it to me."
"Well, we've been offered five hundred dollars a week and we're going to accept the contract, and you'll be sorry some day."
They could go ahead and accept the contract as far as Mr. Griffith was concerned. Indulging in his old habit of walking away while talking, he brought the interview to an end, calling back to the insistent mother, "Three hundred dollars is all I'll give her. Remember, I made her."
And so the Famous Players secured Mary Pickford for a series of features, the first of which was "In the Bishop's Carriage."
But whether Mr. Griffith has ever been sorry, nobody knows but himself.