The Washington herald., 1916-07-21

TNE afternoon when came
\ J sauntering into the studio, l
stopped before one of the
sets and looked long and admiringly
upon a cunning little girl with gold
en- brown curls and big, round,
brown eyes.
Some new child actress" I whis-
pered to the girl who stood beside
me. And isn't she darling"
l noticed then the errant smile
that fitted across my friends face,
but she said nothing, just to see how
long l would be fooled.
81 have been introduced to her."
she remarked, evading my question.
How old do you think she isl"
"Oh, about twelve!" l replied, as
I took another look at the little girl,
who sat swinging her bare legs over
the edge OF a Morris chair and was
at that moment tying on her big
dolls sunbonnet.
The little girl saw US looking at
her, turned and smiled with the
ghost of a bashful grin. There was
something about her: face which
seemed strangely familiar, but l de-
cided that it was because I had
probably seen her around the studio
before.
Just then Mr.. Zukor stepped up
beside me, and calling the little girl
over, he said, II would like to intro
duce you to Miss Marguerite Clark,
our new ingenue."
OF course l fairly gasped-for
though l had seen Miss Clark many
times on the stage, l had not dream
ed that she was such a little bit of a
girl She had looked very tiny IN
"Prunella" and delightfully."- feminine
in "Anatole" when she played oppo-
site Jack Barrymore, but here she
was - pinafored and bare-legged,
made UP for her first picture, Wild
flower" which was perhaps one OF
her greatest successes.
OF course we both laughed at my
complimentary mistake, but she had
become quite used to it, as almost
every one in the studio had tumbled
to the same conclusion as l, all IN
terested because a pretty new little
theatrical child had joined our
forces.
Did you ever see such tiny feet
in all the world?" many OF the girls
remarked as they looked at her row
of little twelve and a half shoes; or,
such dear little hands," they would
exclaim.
She's more like a doll than a
really, truly grown-up lady" two OF
the children whispered about her,
and in fact, she was not much larger
than the doll she was playing with
in "Wildfower."
Her second success was "The
Crucible." Then there followed
"The Goose Girl" produced by the
Lasky Company in California; "Gret-
ma Green" and THE Pretty Sister
of Jose" in which my brother Jack
played the role of Jose, opposite
Miss Clark.
Many people have liked her best
in Helene of the North"-some say
that she was her prettiest in Out
of the Drifts" but there was no
play Sne dPPedleo IN Where Sho was
as dear as in "Still Waters"
"Silks and Satins" is her latest pic
ture, where she plays the dual role
of a modern girl and her own grand
mother, when she was a young
girl many years ago.
Sometimes it is whispered about
that Marguerite Clark will return to
the stage, and we know that the
theatergoers all look forward to her
advent across the footlights again.
There never was a cleverer come
dienne than she in Baby Mine" her
great Broadway success few sea-
sons ago.
Miss Clark is one of the hardest
working artists at the studio, and
that is one of the reasons she has
made such a phenomenal success.
We call her Miss Early Bird" for
she is there just few minutes after
the studio doors are swung open. In