_Twenty-One_: SOME AUTHORS WHO HAVE TRAVELLED TO HOLLYWOOD 235 ILLUSTRATIONS MR. AND MRS. DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS _Frontispiece_ PAGE ELSIE FERGUSON 16 MR. GOLDWYN, MABEL NORMAND AND CHARLIE CHAPLIN 17 ALICE TERRY 32 BERT LYTELL 33 MR. GOLDWYN, DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS AND MARY PICKFORD 48 BARBARA LA MARR 49 CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG 64 MR. GOLDWYN ACTING AS HOST AND WAITER 65 LOU TELLEGEN AND GERALDINE FARRAR 88 THEDA BARA 89 MABEL NORMAND 112 MAXINE ELLIOTT 113 MARY GARDEN AND GERALDINE FARRAR 128 WILL ROGERS BIDS PAULINE FREDERICK GOODBYE 129 CHARLIE CHAPLIN 160 RUPERT HUGHES 161 JACKIE COOGAN 176 GEORGE FITZMAURICE 177 RODOLPH VALENTINO 192 MAURICE MAETERLINCK 193 ERIC VON STROHEIM 208 “CHARLIE,” “DOUG” AND “MARY” 209 CONSTANCE TALMADGE 224 NORMA TALMADGE 225 SAMUEL GOLDWYN AND SEVEN FAMOUS AUTHORS HE WON TO THE SCREEN 240 GOUVERNEUR MORRIS 241 BEHIND THE SCREEN _Chapter One_ IN WHICH IS FILMED THE BIRTH OF A NOTION It was something more than nine years ago that I walked into a little motion-picture theatre on Broadway. I paid ten cents admission. As I took my seat a player-piano was digging viciously into a waltz. Upon the floor a squalid statuette lay under its rain of peanut-shells. And all around me men, women, and children were divided between the sustained comfort of chewing-gum and the sharp, fleeting rapture of the nut. Only a decade ago! Yet this was a representative setting and audience for motion-pictures. Likewise typical was the film itself. For, as were practically all productions of that day, this was only one or two reels. And, faithful to the prevailing tradition, the drama of to-night was Western.