Show hr Record Screen n Writer Littlest Woman but pan Dynamo for Work Turned f I v Productions in Three Years life hie Irene movies ovies I lovo love them lavies possibilities for good I f love Jove them because lon Eon can come from the I and for a couple I I east st cast off the trials I that weigh him down because 1 cause ause they will help Tulse of public opinion cause they are arc within j etY ery poor man woman if the movie is vast and ne ne vision vision vision-a a vision of devices to pro pro- ties of life itself f this is the person or nake these things things- poss pos- pos nes s the real producer is iss 3 s man who puts up the theas theas theas as public knowledge of ofis ofis i is Jeanie Teanie MacPherson l coast the the littlest he biggest ideas that I In n ny a day both here I c countries of Europe iy ly y electricity you mean ay when you speak of enario writing you will oving fast more fast more than with the best twentieth in m lif products Already man has the record for forr r speed peed limit of screen ig g twenty-four twenty produce rears plays fears plays written for fori i Mary Pickford and ar i. i n J to see J Joan oan the ed red for the pleasure of fit it To me it t word in the picture IB ts glad when I saw it of of a woman of one of women whose fields I are re reaching far and aid ald to Cecil DeMille Del eanie MacPherson 1 coan coan coan co- co an an the Woman they fd d Geraldine Farrar or orio orto orto to io make people love they must needs keep R Rhe The he plays play's the thing e e c and the audience is discriminating in this iss MacPherson is farI farr far- far I r IRIT SHOWS re 10 Woman she has nie the Woman And and producing spirit of Jeanie Jeanlo Mac- Mac wing owing itself In bigger nels that will dig down 10 surface the woes of ofIn ofin in In effort to set them if i- i f l greatest opportunity S picture writer and ando o waking oking king up to its pos- pos moment Jeanie Mac Mac- ering material for the the biggest play she to portray the wrongs child the child the little mUe waifs s s existence is one of offering offering offering fering and whose op op- crushed by the scorn d the frown of the their ir tr children ren l lerson ierson is going to talk rity ity she knows about 1 of of children scattered portion of the globe n ne and continuing in ir 11 very existence And nd nd Ugh gh not to preach he pleasure seeking ot pt want sermons or ory y want want to be amused ng to entertain them what they demand coat the bitter P r knowingly over the I Wo We will make It leasing easing and send them I home with a good gOOl taste In their mou mouths Yet withal she earnestly re reflected reflected re- re I I hope to make malee the people realize the situation sufficiently to tomake tomake tomalee make malee them do their bit in making things better And she will I love Jeanie MacPherson because s sh she e loves the tho things that I 1 love Many lany people could do my work she says sas If It they would woul be bo willing to give up give tip give up pleasures and parties and dig and dl di dig and anel spend endless hours to lo work workout out the finest details For e eJ ample example she the continued we may work a whole morning mornin to change chango the position of one door For this young woman is not merel merely content I with writing the play but every de detail detail detail de- de tail of the work worl until it is put before the tho public is supervised by her as it I goes along I When I r first came to work for Cecil De Dc Mille T r had been at the head I of my own company as an actress and produced my own play she saidI said I Ir I r was young oung and felt very sure of oi myself I thought I could wade right in but I r have learned much much very very much she added knowingly She h had d learned to think meekly and aini therefore is gro growing fast fast fast-a a quality I she asks every writer to cultivate I I SOME UNPLEASANT THINGS The know it are our greatest difficulties she asserts Thousands of scenario writers have a bright idea and there it ends They thing they have lave accomplished much with the idea and lost sight of the tremendous work that Is necessary to develop it Then we have troubles with personalities per per- stage stage people who take themselves very seriously It is not an uncommon thing said Miss MacPherson MacPherson MacPherson Mac Mac- Pherson after I. I have visualized a scene and for example have ordered the robe mistress to make a gra gray chiffon gown for my heroine whom I want to portray a meditative scene to be suddenly summoned to straighten straight en out the star What says the screen favorite me me to wear weal gray I 1 never wore gray grayn in n my life Besides the audience likes this side of my profile and the drapery is on the other side Perhaps the same day I am called in n an and I find Mr De Do Mille Mule tearing his ils hair because he lie does not know what the Russian is talking about I the find that I have Insisted shall play a particular part And here she went on telling me the many sides I of screen writing that are unknown to o the audience and which sh she hasto has hasto to o meet d dully ny without acquiring I nerves So her da days s 's are very full indeed A After the play pla is written the morning morn- morn I lug ing ng finds her with her scene producer I and sometimes many hours are spent in the location of a couch Occasionally Occasionally Occasionally Occa after aner we have gone half haIr way through the play we su suddenly denly discover discover discover dis dis- dis- dis cover that we have forgotten a wIndow window window win wIn- dow through which the hero must come come and and there you are Every little while one is Interrupted interrupted interrupted inter Inter- in the writing by the call of or some other scene that is being formed 1 or perfected and most of the time at night we read over the new plays and andI I plan for the prospective work worl so that every moment is taken added this young oung dynamo But the happy side of or life is not lost to her for youth is alive in her veins My favorite recreation is to dance she told me How Ilow I love to dance And her gray eyes glow with gladness at the thought of it Ah Ai truly this young person who has already accomplished so much is not unlike Alexander and yet has the world before her She has no time timeto to sigh that she has no more to conquer I But with Robert nobert Louis Stevenson down In her womanly heart of hearts she is saying sayin I 1 know what pleasure is for I have done good work And Jeanie MacPherson has a mother visiting her who laughs at Father Time and finds youthful joys with Jeanie and who In her way has contributed much as much as she has given lo to to Jeanie the Inheritance of or grandfather grandfather grandfather grand grand- father editors and ancestral workers of worth worth hut hut that is another story I I |