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THE SIGN OF THE BOSS 183 before the world with echo-ringing ballyhoo, it seemed that they were some sort of superhumans, that they had been care- fully nurtured in luxury and suckled by art. Not so. Wally Reid was just what we call a 'young punF when he was being given all that fanfare. I had seen him do that fight as the blacksmith in The Birth of a Nation for D. W. Griffith, and had put him under contract for $75 a week. He was wooden and for many pictures had to be led around by the hand. A failing studio asked us to take Agnes Ayres off its hands. We found her beautiful, but the victim of depressing mannerisms which were soon eradicated. "Leatrice Joy was so frightened by the realization that her chance had come that it was difficult to get any response at all from her. She was shut right up inside of a shell and could not let herself go. We had a terrible time, and finally decided that the only way to handle her was with a club. We knew we had to smash that reserve, that shell, that tightness with which she was holding herself; otherwise, she would never get anywhere on the screen. So I started out on my campaign with her. It almost killed both of us. I scolded and stormed and did my best to break down that shell, but she seemed to shrivel up all the more. We went through two weeks of the most terrible agony for her and for myself. One night, after we had wozked very late, I brought Leatrice and her brother into my office. Leatrice was all upset, thinking I was going to discharge her. I realized that she thought this, so I decided to tell her I was going to fire her. I told her she had not made good, and that although we were two weeks on the picture, I could not go on with her. "She went all to pieces, and wept all over the chair, all over her brother and all over me. I let her go on. She thought she was through and she wept her heart out, saying that I had ruined her life by taking this from her, and that her heart was broken. Right at the height of this, when she was in the middle of the floor, broken and crumpled up, I stopped her and asked