The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-14

to be left alone and" She paused hesitatingly. her face looking funnily wistful through the soot.
 "Yes?'
 "Well-a,' she said with that little draw of hers, they positively insist on talk. ing to me at breakfast -and l just can'i bear being spoken to in the morning.
 How She Joined the Movies
 m with you there's I exclaimed en- Enthusiastically. T wake up with a grouch and want ot be left alone with it until at least 10 o'clock
 'No-honestly?r Miss Fuller exclaimed Why. what a nice person you are, to be sure l didn't know anybody else ever felt that way mornings. Now what dc you suppose can be the matter with us anyway2'
 "Timpelimunt, perhaps" I answered laughingly, "or too much of some thing indigestible the night before. D
 Nothing indigestible," Miss Fuller said, Tor me. I'm regular old maid about what 1 eat-and that And as I told you. l never go out-unless it is 10 the theatre. I'm mad about the thea Ire And l always go alone. And I have a horror Of being recognizedl
 When l go to see myself in my own plays l go sneaking in with my collar turned up and my hat pulled down and HDbotN 'NtiN hlOWS WHO 1 am. on. hate to be pointed out!' She shud- dered
 How did you ever happen to enter the movies ?'"
 Miss Fuller spilled some more ca logne on her hands. Though she seemed perfectly at ease, I got the notion somehow that she was horribly em- barrassed at the plight in which I had discoreved her and was using the per fuma a clIbfarff0a In l. from her dirty little face.
 "Well-a," she said. "I came here to New York from Washington, which has always been my home, about three years ago. l had some money saved up-about s150-Oh, that seemed a lot of money to me-and I came here with the idea that l would go right on the legitimate stage and make my for tune. The managers didn't seem to think they had discovered anything in me. however and they passed me up without a qualm.
 "Then l posed for artists, but this was neither very satisfactory nor es- pecially remunerative and my nest egg was only little piece of shell by this time. So, when somebody said to me, Why don't you pose for the "movies?s' : lit sounded to me like pious idea. did-and somehow seemed to catch on -and I've been with them ever since
 Miss Full-ll-er,'
 Somebody called from the hallway. Mary Fuller jumped up, grabbed a Salvation Army coat and bonnest, and turned to me.
 Come on." she said. Don't you want Ito? And watch me protect a poor man?"
 "of course" said, and followed her lead.
 We walked through the fire swept studio, which was thronged with work men, and she pointed out to me the devastation wrought by the flames.
 Nobody" she told me- Knows just how the fire started, but it probably was from short circuit or something. It happened at o'clock in the morning. when only watchmen were about When we came down to work at this was the sight that greeted our eyes. There's only one stage working now-that's where am. Be careful there. and don't get cut by glass7you see. all the skylights fell in.'
 looked up and saw she spoke the truth. There were Jagged pieces of glass still up, however, and I was scared to death one of them might take a notion to crash down on my head So I scurried along tiuorously and by and by we came to the stage that was working"
 1 ScHoi SSeHe was Set up, ana repOsin8 on the cellar stars was a young maf equally as dirty as Miss Fuller. He greeted her mournfulIy:
 Mary Fuller. do you suppose this will ever come off?"
 Probably not" Miss Fuller rejoined. cheerfully; but if 1t doesn't. think what icv >se will have suing the company! All r.r1y, Mir. Edwards ?' This to the di- ~ector, smartiy dressed well set up chap whose hands and face also were dirty. He replied anxiously:
 Well, guess so-ff I can get the coal to come out in enough of a volume You see. this dwindIing business won't do. It's got to fairly gush out.''
 He turned to q counle If nfane ha y,fn