Show Directors Director's Mate Out for Career of Her Own Ml 4 I a I I 5 S s i S c I S y ia I 1 1 I MRS DAVID WARK GRIFFITH I By HORTENSE SAUNDERS N NEA EA Service Writer NEW YORK ill Dec iee 12 The 12 The days when women O content to be the Unknown wives s of famous men went out perli pompadours and family albums Now the wife of a fam famous us man keeps the family honors even by becoming a person personage ge on her own account a Mrs So It isn't sut BUI to find Mrs David Wark Var Griffith emerging from the obscurity that has enveloped her since she quit the movies years ago as the author of a book When hen the Movies Were Vere Young Yes she admitted Its my first book but it Isn't going to be my last I Iain am ain lull full of ideas for fiction and dramas that will have to get out of my head on paper before I Idan In Itan tan dan n have any peace of mind REMEMBER WHEN If you ou are arena are an old movie fan fan and and you yoa o i dont don't have to fo b be be old yourself to tobe tobe be Je one one if if you remember when pictures pictures pic pie tures were sh wn at and anti the admission was five cents instead of two dollars ars If you ic- ic member the little one the illustrated songs and the GoodNight Good GoodNight GoodNight Night that finished the programs you may may remember Linda Arvids Arvidson r id on on one of the girls of the early days She was also Mrs Griffith wife of the now v famous director When my husband and I worked together first a salary of 5 55 a a. day seemed quite magnificent even oven though we were rather ashamed to admit we were in pictures s she laughed We were regarded as something between freaks and circus cir clr cus performers With three thre others we formed the cast that produced When Knighthood Knighthood Knight Knight- hood Was Va In Sn Flower eADa David Javid accepted accept accept- ed his first directorship with the provision that it if he fell down on the Job l he e could have haye back his job as asan asan asan an actor LIKED OLD DAYS Those old str struggling days day appeal to her fancy mUch more how however ver than the opulence e and success that have come conic to the motion picture industry in the past last decade I am glad she told me that I se served ed my novitiate In a day when ihen w we Ve could conid afford tp be good fellows And our out hearts were oung young enough and happy enough to enjoy the way of things But with the approach of dizzy sala les departed the simple happiness happi ness and contentment of the old days when hen thirty or fifty dollars a week weak seemed like JIke a small fortune Which h is of f course Only another way wy o of saying that the journey is ismore ISmore ismore more Interesting to me than the goal I I loved lond the adventure of of- the early ealy days wh when n w we ive ac actually suffered sur- sur suE suf cold and never ne knew where the next weeks week's rent was wa coming from when we made madee our own cl clothes before the standardization standa atlon of pictures and actors began Now I feel like an outsider and anda a a. stranger t. t 1 CAPTAINS CAPTAIN'S CAPTAINS DAUGHTER Mrs Irs is tha daughter of a Swedish Y sea captain The blood of the sturdy Old ld Vikings runs in her veins and keeps her fr frOnt m ever V r settling settling set set- thing smugly in Iii any anyone one one- spot or contenting herself with a life a-life life of ease and inactivity She Is ill an extensive e traveler tra and has marIe made many trips hack bacI to Norway Norway Nor Nor- way and Sweden and she Knows Scandinavia as s well wel as California which is her native state and where she began her hel stage career She was one of the first t women to to drive a n. car across the continent She made tours by automobile In Inthe Inthe inthe the hazardous times before road maps maps simplified every turn and be before before before be- be fore roads roads' were vero made for motoring Because of her love of travel pars partI par par- s tI along the unbeaten tracks and off the tourist trail she expects to write travel books as well as write fiction My Iy husband Is still absorbed In pictures although he too is less interested in the commercial success success suc sue cess of a picture than he is with its artistic side she concluded Ho Jie II also gets ets a experimentation tion and lii Iri discovering new talent But I had nad to have a new interest interest inter inter- est and I found it in ill writing And thOU though thou 1 Ive I've finished one career I t hope hope I J. J am Just beginning on my real one |