New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30
BY Harriette Underhill

We didn't try to see the parade last
Tuesday because We knew that we had
only one chance in 100000 and no
one had invited us TO sit down and we
hadn't been asked to join the Mayors
party; 80 instead OF going out and
maybe getting killed we decided to do
some work, then we might spend the
next day over in Fort Lee watching
Allan Dwan direct a picture with a
clear conscience. eve mean our con-
science-not his)
OF course, interviewing people is
only work nominally. We have to call
it that because we get paid for it; and
when you have an interviewer like
James Montgomery Flagg-well, did
you ever meet James Montgomery
Flagg?
Once, long ago. oh, ten or twelve or
sixteen or eighteen years ago, we posed
for Mr.. Flagg. He made a magazine
cover of q girl that didn't look bit
like us and labelled it Loves Awaken
ing" or Spring" or something like
that. Just once during the session he
spoke to US. He said, Your eyes are
green, aren't they"
So all those years we never liked him
until we saw him play Perfectly
Fiendish Flanagan" and for that we
forgave him all Of his transgressions.
The interview was arranged over the
telephone. Mr.. Flagg said he would
be in his studio at o'clock, and how
long would it take, and we said fifteen
minutes would be ample time and six
words were all that would be necessary.
And then we stayed an hour and a
half, and should like to have stayed
longer only Mr.. Flagg was going to the
theatre and so were we.
He had the six words prepared for
us, however, and he Immediately gave
them to us to prove that he was in
earnest.
"Now, you must say, Mr. Flagg, do
you write your titles as we'll as your
stories? and I shall say, Better. -
VERY we'll, we'll make a note of
that and can promise you that it will
appear in the interview Do you re-
member us, Mr.. Flagg?'
eyes. do, but / cant think where
nor how"
Don't you remember 'Sprns':" we
began.
"Ah, yes. But you weren't one Of
those frightened girls who went around
with copy of The Common Law un
der your arm, were you. consulting it
on every occasion -
mo. indeed; wc carried a book on
Socialism ut that period and were
all imbued with that classes and mass
cs thing. The reason we didn't like
you was because you wore white silk
socks and pumps in the morning and
paid US so cents an hour for posing.
We thought that you thought that you
were classes and we we're masses.
you see, you didn't give us a chance
to tell you that we were writing the
great American novel and we're looking
for atmosphere
well, well, isn't II a small
Yes" we interrupted, "a small cloud
that never pours,' for we felt we'll
enough acquainted by this time
to act natural; and little later we got
so we'll acquainted that we riskcd our
favorite joke about the man who put
creamcd spinach on his hair by mis-
take, thinking that it was asparagus
1t went so we'll that Mr.. Flagg added
it to his list.
And then we asked Jimmie Flage
Everybody calls him Jimmie whc
doesn't call him James Montgomery
how he came to make pictures-moyic
in the first place.
WELL" he answered, you know M
first pictures were pretty girl pictures
Some one came to me and asked me
if would lend my name to some films
called Girls You All Know, or some
thing of the sort, and l said that I
should not lend my name to anything
unless I did it myself.
"As soon as I got started the thing