CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG
Easily the screen’s most beautiful brunette, and whose eyes are known the world over.
MR. GOLDWYN ACTING AS HOST AND WAITER
John Bowers, Molly Malone and Will Rogers at the table. Chaplin is serving root beer.
“But why?” I pressed her.
After some hesitancy she finally confided the reason of her unrest. Marshall Neilan, whom I have mentioned as playing with Mary Pickford, had been unable to find work in Los Angeles and was taking the train back East the very next day. The result of this conversation was that I sent for Mr. Neilan, and so impressed was I by his intelligence that I engaged him as a director at two hundred and fifty dollars a week. His success was marked from the first and I have already indicated his rapid ascent to fortune.
As to Blanche, who eight years later became Mrs. Marshall Neilan, it was not until she began to work under Mr. Neilan’s direction that she justified our expectations of her. I shall never, indeed, forget my disappointment at seeing her first Lasky film.
“What!” thought I. “Can this be the same girl who was so effective in that Griffith picture?”