“I’m afraid you’re too young,” he commented; “not filled out quite enough.”
It was just luncheon time. The girls said nothing, but presently dashed out, and down Fourteenth Street, to a place where, in a show-window, they had noticed the desired contours for sale, substantial ones, firm and ample, of buckram.
A bite to eat, a trip to the dressing-room, and they were ready. Griffith, considering his cast, took another look at Lillian, rubbed his eyes, decided that after all she would do.
Thus was wrought the miracle of Fourteenth Street.
III
BELASCO DELIVERS A VERDICT
Nell wrote that she was to become a mother. Lillian, awe-struck, replied:
I can’t talk to anyone about it, not now. I want it all to myself for just a little while....
I am with the Biograph, but none of my pictures have been released as yet; will let you know the names of them. I have signed with David Belasco for next season, and we open here in New York on Christmas Eve at Belasco Theatre. Although it is a good company, I have a very small part. I am going to do pictures on the side, so that is some help.... Well, I must get supper.
But she could not carry the Biograph work with her rehearsing. In November she wrote:
I was worked to death my last days at the Biograph, and then I was so excited when I started to rehearse in this new play that I couldn’t even eat. The name of the play is “The Good Little Devil.” It is a fairy play, and we open December 10, in Phila. and Xmas night in N. Y. I play Morgane, a fairy....