Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-23
CHAPTER I

T AN not going to repeat scandal. L
l. am not going to skate on thin ice,
implying things that are not fit to tell
or telling things which will make you
feel that the worst rumors you have
heard about motion picture people must
have been true.
am just going to give you real,
true picture of what the world behind
the screen is really like. I'm going to
tell intimate things about some OF the
players, things that have never before
been told in public, that l believe will
convince you that we are real human
beings in this land of the silver sheet.
I'll have to use fictitious names In some
cases, of course, because it would be
embarrassing for those of us who are
most concerned IL you knew our real
ones. Perhaps you will be able to rec.
ognize us in spite of this change OF
name. But whether you do or not m
sure that you'll be glad to know the
truth about the people you see in the
movies.
my life has fallen to pieces in my
hands--and l cant patch 1t together
again."
That's what Isabel Heath said to me
only few days ago-beautiful Isabel
Heath, whose diamonds and emeralds
are famous in two countries, and whose
piquant little face and golden hair are
known over half the world. She's been
q star in pictures for several years now.
and when she goes anywhere in public
she almost needs bodyguard to keep
people from mobbing her.
Yet there she sat in the window Of
my living room, looking out over River
side drive and the Hudson, and sobbed
as IL her heart would break.
~ wish I'd tried to work the thing
out the way you have, DIANA she said
at last, as the striking of clock re-
minded her that she was due ut the
studio. you're star, too-but you re
happy. You're going to marry the man
you love, who's madly in love with you.
You have your own company, friends,
money-everything. Nice people won't
associate with me, yet if they only
knew it, I've never done anything
wrong; i've just been a fool, that's all.
Oh, | wish / could 60 back to the time
when we were all together out at Fine
Arts four years ago-I'd do things dir
ferently, ] can tell you!'
And watching her as she adjusted
the fables about her throat, and drew
her gloves on over the great, glimmer-
ing Jewels on her hands and wrists, !
wished, too, for her sake, that we could
90 back to that time when we were just
starting in pictures.
There were n lot of us out at the old
Fine Arts Studio in Los Angeles-Col-
leen Moore, Mildred Harris, Pauline
Stark. Marjorie Daw, Carmel Myers,
Winifred Westover, Secna Owen, Dor
othy and Lillian Gish, Constance Tai
madge, some of them stars then, of
course, to all intents and purposes.
Douglas Fairbanks was there, too, 80
was Bessie Love.
Rut none of them seemed very big
md important. Bessie and Colleen and
I nil lived near each other, and morn
incs the ones who were ready first would
climb over the back fences and meet the
other one. and we'd all 60 to the studio
togetber Colleen and | were laughing
about II lust the other day, when we
went 70 see her newest picture, in New
York
Robby Harron was there, too-Bob-
bv whom every one in the industry
loved NV heart warns to the memory
of Rohby Tor very special reason; he
introduced Derry Winchester to me, you
sce-and Derry's the man I'm going to