One day, before Mutoscopes ended, my husband asked me to run over to Wanamaker’s with him and help choose some pretty undies for the Mutoscope girls--photographically effective stuff--so we selected some very elegant heavy black silk embroidered stockings and embroidered pink Italian silk vests and knickers--last-word lingeries for that time. I felt rather ill about it. “Oh dear,” I thought, “this is _some_ business, but I’ll be brave, I will, even though I die.” Well, the parcel being wrapped, David took it and then handed it to me, and I thought, “Why should I carry the bundle?” So we reached Fourteenth Street. David started to the left without his parcel; I was continuing up Broadway, so handed it to him. But the lingerie wasn’t for Mutoscopes at all--but for me--just a little surprise. So then with a light and happy heart, I took my way home to admire my beautiful present. After the Biograph had engaged David, Mr. Dougherty did not want them to make any more Mutoscopes. Mr. Griffith directed possibly six. In order to influence Biograph to cut out the Mutoscopes, Doc got very cocky, and he said to Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Marvin, “You wait, you’ll see pictures on Broadway some day, like you do plays.” But they gave him the laugh. “Yes,” Doc added, “and they will accord them the same dignified attention that John Drew receives.” They laughed some more at this, and said, “Pictures will always be a mountebank form of amusement.” [Illustration: From “Edgar Allan Poe,” with Barry O’Moore (Herbert Yost) and Linda Griffith. (_See p. 90_) ] [Illustration: Herbert Pryor, Linda Griffith, Violet Mersereau and Owen Moore in “The Cricket on the Hearth.” (_See p. 92_) ] But Doc’s prophesy came true. And David did no more Mutoscopes. [Illustration: “Little Mary,” portraying the type of heroine that won her a legion of admirers. (_See p. 104_) ] [Illustration: Register of Caudebec Inn at Cuddebackville. (_See p. 119_) ] CHAPTER X WARDROBE--AND A FEW PERSONALITIES The “Jones” pictures became very popular. Many persons well known in the movies to-day, played “bits” in them. Jeanie Macpherson, author of “The Ten Commandments” was “principal guest” in “Mr. Jones at the Ball.” Miss Macpherson, who for many years has been and still is chief scenario writer and assistant to Cecil B. DeMille, got her first movie job on the strength of a pale blue crepe-de-chine evening gown.