PICTURES

Waikato Independent, Volume XX, Issue 2275, 3 July 1920, Page 5

PICTURES

FOOTBALL CLUB BENEFIT.

MONDAY NIGHT.

Dorothy Gist has the role of tf slavey named “ Boots ” in her next Paramount picture to be screened at - the Town Hall on Monday night.- She is called “Boots” .because it is the English custom to refer to the- bootblack by that term. The setting- of the picture is in London. .

As the maid of all work in>the"cheap' boarding house, , Miss Gish required to black the boots of all boarders. It happened that the studio bootblaqk an artist in his line, heard of the foie Miss Gish was to play. ~ Professional' curiosity led him to the stage where she was working on the preliminary ~ scenes. He watched Miss Gish, as shesat under the glare of the lights with' -; the boots .to be blacked in her her -’ hand. He watched her as she -went' through the movements of blacking them. Then professional pride got- the better of him.

“Good Lawd, Miss Gish, ” he inter* ruptod, “that ain’t no way to black shoes. Nobody in de world ‘ever done it like dat! ’’ . : . General consternation followed. Miss Gish looked hopelessly at the anxious hero. The director scratched his head. ‘ 1 All right. ’ ’ said the star. f 'How do vou do it?” Whereupon Director Elmer Clifton retired to. the background, and his place was taken by the bootblack.. Miss Gish was easy to direct. It' didn’t take him more than five min* utes to explain to her the latest, most / efficient, and truly modern and artistic method of blacking boots. “She’s a quick one,’’ he said, as he returned to his stand. “Some of ’em’ as I’ve tried to learn can’t get onto lt< ! in six years.” Whereupon Miss Gish', was highly flattered, and the siceno ’ continued. ' \ .