RUDOLPH VALENTINO
The most talked-of personality the screen has ever known.
MAURICE MAETERLINCK
Who journeyed from Paris to Hollywood for Mr Goldwyn.
He looked at her in amazement. “What,” cried he, “you don’t mean to say that you’ve given up acting, do you?”
She looked at him somewhat sadly. “Oh, dear, yes,” she replied. “I did that some time ago. It was too discouraging—I wasn’t getting any place, you see. No matter how hard I worked nothing seemed to come of it. And of course being an extra or getting some bit now and then doesn’t keep you. So I decided I’d just get a regular job.”
“And what have you been doing since?” inquired Ingram.
“I’ve been working in the cutting-room,” replied she, “and that was fine—I mean it was fine—knowing just what you were going to get each week. But the ether commenced to get into my lungs and that’s why I’m looking around for something else.”
Ingram promised to give her the desired position in the picture following “Shore Acres.” However, something changed his plans and instead he cast her for a wild and woolly Drury Lane melodrama called “Hearts Are Trumps.” To his surprise she seemed loath to accept this chance of returning to the screen.