When the movies were young (1925)

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232 When the Movie were Young "Oh, please, Mr. Griffith, buy me that dress." "Will you get away?" "Well, I won't play in the picture if you don't get me that dress — I've got to have it." "All right, for heaven's sake, get the dress — but don't bother me." Lillian got the dress. Occasionally, Miss Gish took advantage of a beauty sleep. On such occasions she seldom arrived before eleven in the morning. And when she went to a party she played the role of the sphinx, and all evening long never spoke. But little Mae Marsh made up for her ; she chattered incessantly. Lillian's dope was to come and go without being noticed. She appeared one time at a midnight performance of "Shuffle Along" done up in black veils to the tip of her nose and a fur collar covering her mouth, with only little spots of cheek showing. Dorothy, on the other hand, acting like a real human being, was calling out to her friends, "Hello there, hello, hello," but Lillian, passing an old acquaintance, merely said, "Forgive me for not stopping and speaking; I don't want any one to know I am here." But as everybody was awfully busy having a good time and no one seemed to be particularly disturbed by Miss Gish's hiding away, she finally took her hat off and revealed herself. But she came out of her seclusion that time she preached in answer to the Rev. John Roach Straton at his church on Fifty-seventh Street. Some one was needed to answer the Rev. Mr. Straton's knocks on the theatre and its people. Lillian came forward, and she so impressed her brother-inlaw, James Rennie, Dorothy's husband, that he arrived late