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Updated: May 24, 2025
I thought of old "T-S," as the screen people call him for short the king of the movie world, with his roll of fat hanging over his collar, and his two or three extra chins! I though of Mary Magna, million dollar queen of the pictures, contriving diets and exercises for herself, and weighing with fear and trembling every day!
I recalled that T-S had had pretty good success with his "Tale of Two Cities" as a topic of Conversation, so I began: "Mr. Carpenter, the spectacle you are going to see this evening is rather remarkable from the artistic point of view. One of the greatest scenic artists of Paris has designed the set, and the best judges consider it a real achievement, a landmark in moving picture work."
Said I: "Won't you please promise, Mr. Carpenter " He answered: "I make promises only to my Father. Let me be." I went downstairs, and there was T-S, wandering around like a big fat monk in a purple dressing gown. And there was Maw, also only her dressing gown was rose-pink, with white chrysanthemums on it.
"The lady what you hear that ees Meeses T-S. You know Meester T-S, the magnate of the peectures?" Carpenter did not say whether he knew or not. "They come to me always, the peecture people; to me. the magician, the deputee of the god of beautee. Polly Pretty, she comes, and Dolly Dimple, she comes, and Lucy Love, she comes, and Betty Belle Bird.
I took my telephone-book, and looked up the name Abell. It is an unusual name, and there was only one attorney bearing it. Yes, Comrade Carpenter had just arrived, and Miss Magna was with him. They were going to have a little party, and they would be glad to have me come. Yes, Mr. T-S would be welcome, of course.
Says I, 'Vot you gonna learn? and he says, 'I gonna learn to be a better man. Den he vaits a minute, and he says, 'Mr. T-S, he told me to foller him! J' ever hear de like o' dat?" "What did you say?" "Vot could I say? I vanted to say, 'Who's givin' you de orders? But I couldn't, somehow! I hadda tell him to go ahead, and come back before he forgot all my business."
However, the crowd was orderly, the only disturber being some kind of a Socialist trying to sell literature. I saw Mary Magna come in, with Laura Lee, another picture actress, and Mrs. T-S. They found seats; and I looked for the magnate, and saw him talking to some one near the door.
Abell. More surprising yet, T-S had seated himself inconspicuously at the foot of the table, while at the prophet's right hand there sat a convict with a twenty year jail sentence hanging over him John Colver, the "wobbly" poet! Again an ancient phrase learned in childhood came floating through my mind: "He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree!"
It wasn't often that T-S asked favors, but he wanted to ask one now; he wanted the "Times" to let up on this prophet business, and especially about the prophet's connection with the moving picture industry. Everything was quiet now, the prophet wasn't bothering anybody Suddenly, at the height of his eloquence, T-S stopped; and it seemed to me as if he jumped a foot out of his chair.
T-S was still hanging about, and at first he tried to check this insane extravagance, but then he thought it over and grinned, saying, "I git my tousand dollars back in advertising!" When I pointed out to him what would be the interpretation placed by newspaper gossip on Mary's intervention in the affairs of Carpenter, he grinned still more widely. "Ain't he got a right to be in love vit Mary?
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