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He became an able producer of this drama. He devised a hundred sympathetic little touches that Henshaw would probably never have thought of. He used footage on a mere platter of steak that another director might have ignored utterly. He made it gripping the supreme heart-interest drama of his season a big thing done in a big way, and yet censor-proof.
That was all from me, mind you, and yet I'd gone out there with the idea in my head of getting material for a long newsy piece out of him what we call in this business heart-interest stuff.
There was no art in the telling, only a sweet naturalness and an apparent honesty the honesty of purpose that comes to people in lonely places. Her stories were all of the class that magazine editors call "homely, heart-interest stuff," not deep or clever or problematical the commonplace doings of common people but it found an entrance into the hearts of men and women.
"That's what I'm coming to. The Ray woman is only incidental like others that get adrift in New York and end up in places like the Van Styne. Anyhow I'm not starting out to harrow you with any heart-interest stories.... I'm here to talk business, but you know how it sometimes is, Mr. Tollman.
"That's what I've needed," said he aloud, rising abruptly. She looked up at him quickly. "I've needed somebody's sympathy, somebody's sarcasm, somebody's soft hand which could be correctional on occasion and somebody's heart-interest all along," he declared, standing before her dramatically and flinging out his hands in the strong feeling of his declaration. "I've been lonely; I've been morose.
Well, the girl's mother is dead and the old man's just followed suit in a pauper's cot in Bellevue. How's that for heart-interest? You're a reporter. I ask you, will they feature that on Park row? Will they give us space for that I ask you?" "And she went on ... my God!" "Oh, of course I ain't told her yet," Mr. Lewis hastened to add. "She might have gone up."
They are unequaled. Human documents, heart-interest, delicate and piquant sex-tang the very sort of thing the dear public devours. I told you once they meant a great deal to me, remember? They're going to mean more. Come about four, please." He lifted his hat, bowed, and was gone. Mary Virginia went to his office at four o'clock the next afternoon, as he had planned she should.
It is a perpetual sermon to those that would thresh around to no avail, be they orators, melodramatists, or makers of photoplays with an alleged heart-interest. Let us consider Gilbert Stuart's portrait of Washington. This painter's notion of personal dignity has far more of the intellectual quality than Van Dyck.
"They offered me a position if I would write a 'heart-interest' story of my life signing it and concealing nothing." The young man nodded. "I know and I saw your eyes as you refused. I'm not talking as a reporter now, but as a human being. You won't make any mistake by trusting me, Miss Burton. Is it so bad as all that with you? Hunting a job?"
Now, did Mr. Smith really take such a heart-interest in cesspools and wet-traps as he appeared to do? and did Mr. Perkins really think he mattered all that?
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