Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-03
CONFESSIONS
OF 4 STAR
As Told to
INEZ KLUMPH
TUE STORY BEGINS

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Difh the early days IN tie old Fine
Arts studio in California, rhcn Col
leen Moore, the Gish girls, Bessie
Love and a host OF Others nere nor
| much more than extra girls. Diana
Chepne relates the tale: she begins
Nth the day in the studio nhcn she
and Isabel Heath, not stars then as
they are notc, ,oere sitting on the
stairs phen n strange man came into
the studio and looked nt them. 1he
cdmeraman called them doDn TO
meet him, and IL proced the turn
ing point in Isabefs life. He ,rds
Phil Cranev, a famous director from
the eastern studios, aud nc fdh0ht
Isabel to be the first OF the screen
"boby camps" and engaged her for
such a part in a photopldy he rdS
producing.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER XI
T WENT gack to the ballroom with the
avowed intention of rcpaying those
girls who we're snubbing me in coin OF
their own making. firted with every
man there, and because ] was an
actress, they were delighted, most Of
them, and. devoted themselves to me.
I didn't enjoy it; felt hurt, and
angry. You see, ever since I'D gone
into pictures I'd played around mostly
with the girls who were in pictures, too,
and It had never occurred to me that
people looked down on us.
While I'm still on the subject. I'm
going to stop talking about myself and
tell you what just such snubbing, only
more severe one, did to girl who's in
pictures. She began in serials, because
she had been walking the streets hun
cry, and when she heard that they
wanted somebody to do stunts in one
episode of serial that was being made
at one of the studiosa ashe applied for the
job.
II was so worn out and hungry that
I didn't much care whether 7 got hurt
or not" she told me the other day,
when she sat here in my living room,
looking out over the city, and played
with the gorgeous ermne scarf that was
thrown around her shoulders. I'm fact.
l rather hoped l would get hurt and
be sent to a hospital, SO that I'd be
sure of having food and a roof over my
head for while, at least
She wasn't hurt, and she made good
and got job, and finally became a
star In serials. She was one of the
incest girls I've ever known; she and
used to ride horseback together once in
a while, and though we never got we'll
enough acquainted for her to tell me
much about herself, liked her ever so
much.
Then the most awful stories began to
60 around town about her, ana she be-
gan to act in a way that made them
seem probable. ] went East at that
time, and so never knew how much was
true and how much was just gossip,
until she told me the other day.
II met an awfully nice chap, or SO
he seemed to me, at party friend of
mine gave" she told me. 1--WE sort Of
hit it of right from the start, and
about two months later he asked me to
marry him. wouldn't, because he was
pretty wild, and even though I hit some
of the high spots myself at that time. !
knew I could always stop, and / wasn't
30 sure about him.
He did stop: though" She paused
for a moment then, and her voice took
on a warm, tender note that I'd never
heard in it before. ''He braced right
up, and stopped drinking. and began to
save his money. He had an awful lot
of it his people were some of the lucky
ones who'd found an oil well in the
back yard, and were just rolling in
mazuma.
IL said I'd marry him. but I thought
he ought to introduce me to his folks
first. So we went down to the town
where they lived, in Oklahoma-hotter
than Dutch love, it was, and when we
first gotthcre l thought I'd die of the
heat. But as soon as we got to their
house and met his family, / saw that
the coolness Of my reception would chill
the air enough for anybody
"What do you mean?" ! demanded.
Weren't they nice to you?"