Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-18
Violet Heming Grants
Interview In TaXicab on
Way to Catch Her Train
Star Of "Everywoman" Talks About Herself and Her
Latest Plays While Hurrying to Station to
Board Fast Train for Boston-Says She Is In
Love With Motion Picture Business.
By GORDON TRENT.

gressed in a taxicab and finished at
the Grand Central station, with the
interviewer racing along the station
platform to catch the last word the
interviewee was machine cunning
toward him from the rear platform
of the Knickerbocker express to
Boston. The elapsed time of the in
terview was just II miHutes by a
split-second Ingersoll and through
out the whole II minutes the inter-
viewee, Violet Heming-the beauti-
full, beautiful "Everywoman" of the
screen-wondered what it was all
about. And as the, interviewer had
to devote the whole of his precious
II minutes to obtaining Miss Hem
ing's views on an amazing number
of things, he did not have time to
tell her.
SO Miss Heming, when she reads
this will know that the ll-minute-
taxicab hotel railroad train inter-
view was . direct result of her be-
coming the newest star in the frma-
ment maintained by the Famous
Players-Lasky corporation for the
entertainment of the dear American
public and the profit Of Paramount
Aircraft exhibitors. And as Miss
Heming has scored an altogether re-
markable success in "Everywoman"
and has just completed her first
starring picture, "The Cost" and
will be very much in the public eye
from now on, why she will find that
this interview is only one of many
she must submit to as Z motion pic
ture star.
"Everywoman" W. "Ths Cost.
We have seen "Everywoman' at
the Rivoli--who hasn't?-and, quite
naturally, we concluded that the girl
who played, the title role in such a
thing OF haunting beauty would
spend most Of her time talking
about the picture; but, by a most
faithful record. Miss Heming men-
toned "Thc Cost" even eftener than
She did "Everywoman." So THE
Cost" which she has just finished
at the Famous Players studio in Fit.
ty-sixth street, must be wonderful
picture, Indeed, and I am going to
watch for its release date, so that l
shall not fail to see it.
Violet Heming is so beautiful, and
her big eyes were SO appealing that
it seemed abominable to harry her
when she was trying to catch train
But the girl who played Every
woman" and who then became a
Paramount Aircraft star is news,
and the editor, being person who
knows news, had ordered that ! get
an interview with her at any cost.
This was the excuse / offered to
Miss Heming when / met her IN the
.Astor; but, to whisper the truth,
needed no excuse-I had always
wanted to talk to Violet Heming
ever since | saw her on the stage
with Margaret Ellington in The
Lie" few years ago:
I'm English: l came to America
when 1 was T." said Miss Heming'
trying to help me, while she nerv-
ously eyed the clock. What do you
think Of 'EverywomanF"
"Greatv countered the interview
er, "hut let. talk about yourself
And She's Happy in the Movies.
"I'm happy to be in the movies;
happy for several reasons; but the
best reason Of all is the fact that II
gives my mother and friends in Eng
land a chance to see me, and don't
seem so far sway to them any more
You know, haven't seen my mother
i, \ long time, and only the other
day I received a letter from her, tell
ing me how happy she was to have
seen me in The Turn of the Wheel,
my first venture in the moves, with
Geraldine Farrar. Oh, but wait until
She sees me in The Cost 1t is re-
markable story-one of David Ora
ham Phillips, you know"
"Yes. indeed" came back the in
.ert;cwer. "but you were talking
about Your mother"
Unlike most mothers, mine Ell
courased me to take up stage ca
reer. She believed in giving child
its natural bent, and mine, ever
since | learned to walk, has been
the stage. There was never any
doubt in my mind that | should
Eventually succeed in the theater.
went into it with the idea that there
was no keeping me out Of il"
There's the key to the whole sys-
tenn of success in whatever line one
undertakes! Miss Heming has an
idea, and she put her idea across
because she was imbued with the
spirit that couldn't lose Obstacles
handicaps and disappointments
were many. But when the hour
was darkest she doggedly repeat
ed the formula: "They can't keep
me out!" And they couldn't. Sim.
pie psychology.
People Quit Too Easy.
"It people would only realize
that little more heart and little
more effort will sometimes carry
them over the top there would be
less unhappiness in the world. But
people are too prone to quit with
The goal in sight. l made up my
mind long ago that success in any.
thing is not so much a matter o.
genius as q matter of stick-to-it
ivenesss
II don't remember what my frs
part was, but it was q child's part
and how / worked; Asleep O.
awake, it was ever in my thoughts
and-oh, It's almest train timer
Out Of the door and into a tax
Grand Central Station-bound. Wher
Miss Heming picked up her end o:
the interview again she had eth,
Cost" on her mind 'Everywoman
is wonderful, but possibly be
cause The Cost is my first starrin,
picture I can't get it out of my mind
l do hope the people will like it a.
much as 'Everywoman.'
what was your first truly biz
suceess?" ventured the, interviewer.