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JANUARY 25, 1920 ROOSEVELT' ARTICLE' GIVES PROOF OF JAPAN'S FRIENDSHIP . Ex-President Brands Agitators as German-Inspired and Points Out That Orientals Have Helped All Allies Put Down Prussianism, Doing Their Share as Well as Any. THE SUNDAY OHEGOMAN, PORTLAND, (Copyright by the New York Times Com pany. Published by Arrangement.) JAPAN'S career during the past 50 years has been without par allel In world history. Japan has played a Dart of extraordinary use fulness to the allied cause in -this war for civilization. Japan's friend ship should be peculiarly dear to the United Slates, and every far-sighted public man in the United States should do' his utmost to keep a cor dial working agreement of sympathy between the two nations. These three facts should be continually in the minds of every good American; and especially at this precise moment. Japan's sudden rise into a foremost position among the occidental civil ized powers has been an extraordinary phenomenon. There has been noth ing In the past in any way approach ing it. No other nation in history has ever so quickly entered the circle of civilized powers. It took the yellow-haired " bar barians of the north who overthrew Borne six or eight centuries before the civilization they built up even began to approach the civilization tiiey had torn down; whereas Japan tore down nothing, and yet reached the level of her western neighbors In half a century. Moreover, she en tered the circle of the higher civiliza tion bearing gifts in both hands. Her appreciation of art and nature, her refinement of life, and many of her octal conventions, together with her extraordinary and ennobling patriot ism, convey lessons to us of America and Europe which we shall do well to learn. Every thoughtful American who dwells on the relations between Japan and the United States must realize that each has something to learn from the other. Japan's Part Praised. In this war Japan has played a great and useful part. That she had her special and peculiar grievances rfgainst Germany goes without saying So had we. She took these grievances into account precisely as we took our grievances into account. But she ranged herself on the side of hu manity and freedom and justice ex actly as wo did. Her duty has been, first of all, to drive Oernjany from the Pacific and to police and protect the orient. If she had not done this It is probable that at the present moment a British and American force would be besieging Kiao-Chau and that our commerce would be suffer ing from German raids in the Pacific. Great Britain and the United States are able to keep their fleets out of the Pacific at this moment because the Japanese fleet is there. But she has done much more than this. Gradually, as the war has grown. she has extended her assistance all over the globe. Her volunteers have appeared in that most hazardous of all military branches, the air service. at tne extreme fighting front. Biic has sent her destroyers to protect English and American troop ships and cargo ships in the Atlantic ocean, the North sea and the Mediterranean. Japan's part has been great; far greater than anything that she was called upon to do by her alliance with Great Britain. She first captured Kiao-Chau and sank all the Aus trian and German ships there. She then drove the German ships out of the Pacific. Soon thereafter she lent three of her cruisers to Russia to strengthen her fleet In the Baltic. At present her destroyers are working together with the British and Ameri can destroyers in the Mediterranean sea and off the coasts of England, Spain and France. Her submarines have been working In company with the Italians. The transports from Australia and New Zealand have been convoyed safely by Japanese warships. Our own war vessels are free for convoy ing our troops across the Atlantic largely because of what Japan has done in the Pacific. She supplied, enormous quantities of arms and munitions to Russia. She lent Russia heavy guns and loaned her millions of dollars She has given to the allies quantities of copper. She has sent medical units to England, France, Russia, Serbia and Ruirfcinia. She has offset the German intrigue in India. One in 28 of the people of Japan be long to the Japanese Red Cross; one In four of the Japanese In this coun try are in the American Red Cross. Two thousand Japanese are fighting In the Canadian army. "Japan has done everything she has been asked to do or permitted to do In this war, and this statement will be questioned by no human being who is both honest and acquainted with the actual tacts. Trouble-Makers Scored. Yet, at this very time, when Japan's sons are fighting beside ours in the waters of the Mediterranean and the Bay of Biscay and the North sea and in the air over the western front, there are blatant Americans WHO have served Germany against America, who have played the German game to the limit, by striving to make trouble between Japan and the United States; by seeking every way to rouse sus picion and distrust of Japan in the United States; and by doing all that malevolent and unscrupulous base ness can do to taunt Japan into hos tility to our country. There are in .nis country certain demagogic poli ticians, certain agitators seeking no toriety, and certain conscienceless and sensation-mongering newspaper owners and writers who are willing to make money or obtain preferment for themselves by any appeal to dis trust and suspicion, no matter what infinite harm it does to this country: These sordid creatures have worked hand in glove with the scarcely more sordid creatures who are paid by Ger many in downright cash to advance Germany's aims, whether by striving to provoke an ill-will that might eventually produce war between the United States and Japan or in any other fashion. They have been guilty of conduct so shameful that it cannot be too strongly condemned. Japan has a real admiration for America, dating back for 60 years to the time of Perry. The two nations have been in relations of close friend ship. The Japanese have patiently borne misrepresentation, insults and false accusations from various au thors, writers and public speakers of this country. They are a proud na tion. They have su-ffered under this vilification. They have believed that our people would themselves realize the injustice of these attacks. Their belief is justified. Our people are be ginning to understand that of recent years the most flagrant of these at tacks have been made by German agents who worked diligently and secretly with ample government money to create distrust between the two countries. The time has come for us Americans to show our trust and confidence In Japan as a great. loyal, modern people, whose seat at the table of the family of nations is next to ours, and who sit there on a full equality with all other civilized peoples. The rights and duties of the: United States and Japan toward each other must be treated on a basis of exact reciprocal equality. Each must have full control of all things vitally affecting its own well - being; each must treat the other with frank and loyal courtesy and consideration. Germans Back of Effort. The origin and persistence of Ger man propiStanda for the purpose of embroiling Japan and the United States is now fairly well recognized. Yet until Viscount Ishii openly and publicly accused Germany of being the agentfof this nefarious work, the people of our country knew practi cally nothing about it. At a recep tion given by the National Press club In Washington to Viscount Ishii as the head of the commission from Japan, September, 1917, he made an address which was for the most part devoted to exposing these insidious efforts of Germany. He said in part: "For more than ten years a propa ganda has been carried on in this country, in Japan, and. In fact, throughout the world, for the one and sole purpose of keeping nations of the far east and far west as far apart as possible; to break up existing treaties and understandings; to create distrust, suspicion and unkindly feel ing between neighbors in the far east and in the west, and all in order that Germany might secure advantages in the confusion. I do not think that you, gentlemen, in your busy Uvea here during the last ten years' have given more than passing attention to developments in the far east. The well-equipped agent of your enemy and mine has taken advantage of your preoccupation or of your kindly credulity. For many years his work was easy. The world Was flooded with talks of Japan's military aspirations and Japan's duplicity. Have these been borne out by history? Even now the German publicity agent whispers first in your ear and then in mine His story is specious, and is told in dim light which falls upon tymna- thetic pictures cleverly painted by himself and presented to you and to me in the past. To the accompani ment of appeals to the human heart ne tens to me otner stories of wur duplicity and to you of mine. Blonder Gives Clew. "For 12 years, gentlemen, up to the present time, those agents have worked among us and elsewhere per sistently and cleverly. They have been supplied with unlimited re sources. No wonder we have been deceived. A short time ago a bad blunder gave us a clew. The Zimmer man n note to Mexico involving japan was a blunder. It made such a noise that we were disturbed in our slum bers and so were you. This gave a check for a time, but since the agents have been hard at work. They were at work yesterday, and they are at COLONEL ROOSEVELT'S INTEREST IN HOLDING JAPAN'S FRIENDSHIP. When, in the latter part of July, 1918, Colonel Roosevelt's atten tion was drawn to the persistent attacks on the Japanese in the press and in magizlne articles, signed in some cases by men known to be In the pay of China and persona non grata In Japan or by authors who wished to pose as prophets in predicting war with Japan, he instantly saw the importance of putting a stop to it. For that reason he wrote the accompanying article. From the moment when the matter was mentioned to him he seized upon it with his usual energy and urged haste in securing the quotations and other material which he needed. Several times, in the Interviews at Oyster Bay which followed, he rose from his desk and walked the floor, saying, "This is of international impor tance," or "We must attack this wherever we see it," or "Doesn't any sane man know that Japan's friendship is the best asset we can have in the orient?" The "message," as he called it, wu written in those sad, trying days when he was receiving cable confirmation of Quentln's death, and I saw. by his manner, as well as by his kindly words to me, when I suggested that Our Interviews be postponed, that it was a relief for him to have a subject before him to which he could give his whole heart. The manuscript came in ten days, on the date set by himself, together with a letter to me instructing me to show the article to Viscount Ishi, and, if it met with his approval, I was then permitted to publish it wherever and whenever 1 chose. Accordingly. I went to "Washington and submitted the original manuscript to Viscount Ishii, explaining that Colonel Roosevelt had written It in order to help counteract the antagonism toward Japan; also that he had not been asked to write it by any Japanese or by anyone representing or connected with the Japanese or any other government. A few days later Viscount Ishii expressed his approval and his thanks in a brief note to me, requesting that it be shown to Colonel Roosevelt. J. B. MILLET. (Editor's Note J. M. Millet, traveler and writer, had long been a friend of Colonel Roosevelt. Having spent much of his time in Japan, Mr. Millet was specially interested in presenting to the American public the truth abtrut that country's war record and ideals. So he went to the ex-president and asked him to write the article printed herewith.) work today. Every prejudice, every. sympathy, every available argument has been appealed to and used to show to your people and to ours what a low, cunning enemy we have each in the Other, and how much dependent we are upon the future friendship, support and good-will of Germany." The Zimmermann note was an offi cial invitation from Germany to Japan and Mexico to join in dismembering the United States; for Germany has with cynically Impartial bad faith striven to draw her own profit from the ill-will she has endeavored to ex cite in each of the two nations, Japan and America. Every American public man, newspaper editor, speaker or writer who since the publication 6f the Zimmermann note has striven to excite America against Japan has been deliberately playing Germany's game against this country. Such action amounts to moral treason to the United States. If any person thinks this too strong a statement, I call his attention to the recent deliberate utterance of Secre tary of "State Lansing, ex-Secretary of State Root and ex - Ambassador Gerard. Suspicion Is Discerned. Mr. Lansing Pays: "There had un questionably been growing up be tween the peoples of the two coun tries (Japan and the United States) a feeling of suspicion as to the motives inducing the activities of the other in the far east, a feeling which, if un checked, promised to develop a seri ous situation. Rumors and reports of improper intentions were increas ing and were more and more believed. Legitimate commercial and industrial enterprises without ulterior motives were presumed to have political sig nificance, with the result that opposi tion to those enterprises was aroused in the other country. The attitude of constraint and doubt thus created was fostered and encouraged by the campaign of falsehood which for a long time had been adroitly and se cretly carried on by Germans whose government, as part of its foreign policy, desired especially so to alien ate this country and Japan that It would be at the chosen time no dif ficult task to cause a rupture of their good relations. Unfortunately there were people in both countries, many of whom were entirely honest In their beliefs, who accepted every false ru mor as true, and aided the German propaganda by declaring that their government should prepare for the conriict which they asserted was in evitable, that the interests of the two nations In the far east were ho tile, and that every activity of the other country in the Pacific had a Binister purpose. Root Scores Propaganda. Mr. Root says: "There never has been in this country, so far as my ob servation and reading go, any more dangerous and persistent misrepre sentation regarding the relations. the purposes, the character of another country with which we have relations than in the case of the relations be tween the United States and Japan. I haven't the slightest doubt that the misrepresentations and the attempts to create a feeling among the peo ple who have it all in their hands now, the attempts to create bad feel ing between the United States and Japan have been very largely the re sult of a fixed and settled purpose, and that purpose, it seems to me. growing day by day more clear, was the purpose that formed a part of the policy of the great ruling caste of Germany, which is attempting to BUb jugate the world today. "For many years I was very fa miliar with our department of for eign affairs, and for some years I was especially concerned in its oper tion. During that time there were many difficult, perplexing and doubt ful questions to be discussed and set tled between the United States and Japan. During that time tho thought less or malicious section of the press was doing its worst. During that time the demagogue seeking cheap reputation by etlrrlng up the pas sions of the people to whom It ap pealed was doing its worst. Tliere were many Incidents out of which quarrels and conflicts might have arisen, and I hope you will remem ber what I 6ay. I say that, during all that period, there never was a moment when the government of Japan was not frank, sincere, frlend- y and most solicitous not to en large, but to minimize and do away with all causes of controversy. No one who has any familiarity at all with life can be mistaken in a nego tiation as to whether the one with whom he is negotiating is trying to be frank or trying to bring on a quarrel. Peace Always Championed. "That is a fundamental thine that you cannot be mistaken about. And there was never a more consistent and noble advocacy of peace, of in ternational friendship and of real, good understanding in the diplo macy of this world than was exhibit ed by the representatives of Japan, both here and in Japan, during all these years in their relations to the United States. I wish for no better no more frank and friendly inter course by which Japan in those years illustrated the best qualities of the new diplomacy as between rulers. Mr. Gerard says: "All during the winter of 1914 in Berlin. Germans from the highest down tried to im press me with the great danger which they said threatened America from Japan. The military and naval at taches of the United States embassy and I were told that the German in formation system sent news that Mexico was full of Japanese colonies and America of Japanese spies. Pos cibly much of the prejudice in Amer ica against the Japanese was cooked up by German propagandists, which we later learned to know so well." Japan's friendliness and good -faith were strikingly shown in the early days of the war, when the question arose whether, in case of war be tween the United States and Japan, Great Britain would be obliged to assist Japan. This was excitedly dis cussed here and in England. The proposed treaty of arbitration be tween Great Britain and the United States came up about this ttme, and It was found that such a treaty was precluded by the terms of the alli ance between Great Britain and Japan. It was at Japan's request that the terms of her- treaty with Great Britain be revised so as to re move the obstacle to the arbitration treaty, to which Great Britain con- sented. This was Japan's contribu tion to universal peace. Regarding this. Viscount Ishii said In his address In the National Press club in Washington, "Now if Japan had the remotest Intention of ap pealing to arms against America, how could she thus voluntarily have renounced the all-important co-operation of Great Britain? It would have been widely quixotic. Treaties are not 'scraps of paper' to Great Britain. Japan knew 6he could reiy on Great Britain religiously to carry out her promise. It was my good for tune to be in the foreign otrice at Tokio at the time of the revision of the treaty of alllanee with Great Britain, and. modest as was the part I took therein. I can give you the per sonal and emphatic assurance that there was at that time no one In the government or among the public of Japan opposed to the terms of that revision. There is. one may surely be safe in saying, only one way to interpret this attitude of Japan. It is the most signal proof if. indeed, any proofs is needed' that to the Jap anese government and nation any thing like armed conflict with Amer ica is simply unthinkable." Nothing Lent Japan. Japan, alone among the allies, hae borrowed no money from the United States; and she has lent hundreds of millions to the other allied nations, The Jauanese have made a record in war charities during the last four years which is of really extraordinary fineness and disinterestedness. The women of Japan used the same meth ods for raising money to be sent to Belgium and Serbia and elsewhere that our own women did. They had their "Japan Belgian Relief Society, their "Japan Serbian Relief Society, etc. They sent $150,000 to the Italian refuges who lost their homes when the Teutonic armies invaded Italy. Stimulated by these smaller but very active organizations, a movement was started which spread from end to en'-' of the empire fcnd then across to Korea. Its title is "The Japanese Association for Aiding the Sick and Wounded Soldiers and Others Suffer ing from the War with Allied Coun tries." Its president is Prince Iyesato Tokugawa, president or the house oi peers. The vice president is Baron Shlbusawa. the financier so well known In this country. The fund col lected amounted to tl. 000,000 and was distributed as follows: Tn Rn.il Britain l4.nno France 1K4.000 Jtussia 1S4.IMMI Itnlv 1S.I HrlKium lS4.lll.it Horbia tln.nml Rumania 00,000 People I nlled for War. Ordinarily funds of this size and character are distributed by a com mlttee, but this association adopted i less exepensive and much more mod ern method. The money was sent to the Japanese official representa tives in the various countries. A pamphlet was published in Japanese and in English under the title "Japan to Her Allies," which stated the pur nose of the association and also In cluded articles written by leading men of the country. In which they se forth their sympathy with all the sufferers, their opinion of Germany's responsibility for the war, and he abominable methods of conducting It, and their belief in the ultimate vie tory of the allies. It is a remarkabl publication; nothing quite equal to it has originated 1n any of the occiden tal countries. The quality of the phamphlet Is shown by the following ' quotation from the dignified and im- pressive statement of Count Terauchl, the prime minister and official spokesman of the Japanese people: "Far removed as the empire of Japan is from the. center of action, and little as the people of Japan has . suffered in comparison with their European allies, Japan and her peo ple, none the less, know the meaning of war, and are able, therefore, to appreciate the sufferings and sacri fices of their allies as their own. The people of Japan feel themselves one . with the people of the invaded coun tries, just as the people of the allies do. They are oner in sympathy and tho fight for international justice. and ftand ready to share the hard ships of the struggle to the fullest ex tent. . . As the prime minister of Japan it Is my privilege and pleas ure Hereby to express the sympathy and good-will of the people of Japan lor tne allied armies and peoples In this day of trial. . . . Though the amount contributed may seem no more than a mere trifle in comparison with the need of the suffering nations, the heartfelt sympathy and admiration of a whole nation go with it. Those who receive the gift from Japan may well look upon it as the widow's mite that eans more than all the offerings of the rich." Respect for Japan Demanded. - There is not time in this message to; discuss fully our proper relationsto; Japan; I have set them forth as I eea them and as I see our proper posi tion as regards all our international relations in my booa "Fear God and Take Your Own Part." But there is always time to point out the ele mental fact that this country ehould feel for Japan a peculiar admiration and respect, and that one of the car dinal principles of our foreign policy should be to secure and retain her friendship, respect, and good-will. There is not the slightest real or nec essary conflict of interest between the United States and Japan in the Pacific; her interest is in Asia, ours in America; neither has any desire or excuse for acquiring territory in the other continent. Japan is playing a great part in the civilized world; a good understanding between her and the United States is essential to in ternational progress, and it is a grave offense against the United States for any man by word or deed to jeopard ize this good understanding. The case has been put In a nutshell In Viscount Ishii's eloquent and ap pealing address at Fair Haven, Mass., on July 4, which he closed with these words: '.We trust you, we love yon, and, if you will let us, we will walk at your side in loyal good-fellowship down all the coming years." All good Americans should act to ward' Japan in precisely the spirit shown toward America by this able and eloquent Japanese statesman. The nimpi of the three Japanese cruis ers that were Riven back to Kusaia after the outbreak of the war, together with " their original Kussian names, are: Saea ml (Peresviet), 12.074 tons: Tanso (Pol tava), 10.U60 tons, and Soya tVaryagj. tiooo tons. Japan has financed her own part In the war without borrowing and has lent more than t.VJO.OOO.lKIO to England. Franca and Russia. fcGIRL CROOK OF FILMS' IS CHARMING OFF STAGE Priscilla Dean in Real Life Is Amazing and Electric Talk With Her Makes Your Pulse Beat at 190 or More, Declares Frohman. ; - c i k ' " r;X w - A ' " . . , v ) k o- f i it 4 t? s ? ' & l ' 'v s i y ? I' ? " fi - A ' : $ - -v "t " . h - - -V -; - " -'rjc- I ' -T- ' yn ? - t I t - SJC",?", P I . - . . v - ' Meet the wildcat lady the honest crook the gentle cyclone. Prlscilla Dean Is all of these. On the screen she is one kind of a person and off It she is distinctively an other. Come on. Prisuilla, you tell them about it. Just listen: BT HAT W. FROHMAN. (Copyright, 1919, by Evening Herald Pub lishing Co.) IN SCREEN plays she's crooked that's straight! And if you like girls who are "full of 'pep' every moment" and who doesn't? Priscilla Dean is your genuine Cayenne. As everybody this side of Mare probably knows, Prlscilla is not only the dashing girl crook of pictures but the original "wild cat" of the screen. Of course, in her milder film ve hicles, she moderates her before-the-camira temperament and becomes only a tv-himiscal spirited spitfire! But after having her under the micro scope, as it were, in the interests of science, the Evening Hers Id and wcrj body else, 1 can testify that Priscilla is the personification of vi vacity. In real life, Priscilla the amazing is electric: Her eyes gleam; her fea tures are keen, keen. Keen; she is a sprightly chatterbox, never still a mo ment, full of handicaps, screams, gur gles and giggles. A talk with her makes your pulse beat about 190 or whatever pulses shouldn't. Swap merry badinage with Priscilla. and you'll forget all about dinner if you're hungry, "lady-loves" if you're sentimental, the high cost o' living If you're poor! If you don't know Priscilla person ally, leap under a shower bath, with the fountain needles particularly fine and the wsh pure ice. That might give you something of the same ef fect. Priscilla is the prettiest French maid type you ever saw. sublimated. She is Farrar at her highest volu bility and she is like no one else in the world! Star Met at tnivernnl. I found her on the "back ranch" of Mr. Unlversal's little 360-aere studio, haaging onto the iron bars, watch ing a long lean brown dog lope around inside the cage of a lady lion puppy, who had a chop sticking out of her mouth. It seems that the lady lion puppy wouldn't'swallow the rest of the chop until the long lean brown dog would stop trotting around the edges and play for they had been brought up together. It was really quite a ro mance. So this was Priscilla Dean this lively-looking, swarthy, bare-legged urchin in a piebald rag of a turban, waist concocted of subdued tints like Joseph's "coat of many colors." smeary blue-velvet vest decked with gold braid, sash created out of some gav scrap, and cheap black cotton skirt, what there was of it with brown bits of arms and legs peeping through her tatters, and an occa sional flash of white where she'd for gotten to put on the earthy stain! Eyed "Normal" and Bright. And her eyes were normal big. bright. snappy, dark-brown eyes 'with nothing put in em, under long dark lashes, and beneath lighter- brown hair that hung down In long bangs and in fuzzy clumps on either side of her head! Her features were thin, fine, clean cut quick and sharp and the teeth that flashed through her rouged, rouged lips were perfect really they were. Priscilla was distinctly "French y." "But I thought there was something 'off about your eyes when I saw you on the screen!" I protested. "You were a girl CROOK, posing as a French maid and in love with a crook. There was a devilish glint in your eyes a wicked look!" "Oh. I'm really not like that in private life, either. I'm really quite nice." said Priscilla. "Isn't this costume awful? This Bash I found it in an ash can I I told ent to save all their rags for me. I tore down a curtain for this tap- Dine the turban with her index finger. "Every time my bangs get long, they give me a part In which I have to cut 'em off. But I roll around in these rags ride a camel there are several 'chases' 'beat up' a girl, 'n everything!" We walked back a few yards to the "act," rescuing en route the English novel Prlscilla was reading between waits crammed, by the way, with letters requesting photos. Evidently she reads 'em! By "waits" we mean that for three days Priscilla had been getting "all worked un" each morning to cry in a certain scene, but they kept wait ing for Just the right light. She ex pressed fear that her weeps' reservoir might be dry wnen tne crucial mo ment really arrived. Voila, the "set." There were Turks galore, and mayhap an Arab or twain. There were flocks and flocks of Jars earthen and bronze and gilded. And there -was "Pete," the camel, noble of prow and eternally elastic of cud. They were using camels, lions, dogs, leopards, snakes and cats in that picture, I was told, and a lucky pigeon was to peck right out of Priscilla's bill; I might add that they were also using a very frisky and playful kitten Priscilla. Prlscilla Does the "Hooch y." And some tfrne during the "shoot ing" they'd had Priscilla doing a "cootch" formerly dubbed the "hoochy-coochy," and eke the "can can" so keep your husbands away from that picture, girls. Then Priscilla and I flopped Into a studio car with her dlrectof. Tod Browning, and other members of the cast. We stopped at the projecting room for a "preview" of the first few scenes of the picture. Spirited little Priscilla, coy, irresistibly alluring, was wasting her animation flirting prettily with "Pete," the camel, try ing to make him wink! And then we blew over to Pris cilla's spick-and-span dressing room, done in old rose and colored pictures from a fashionable magazine. Pris cilla curled up In a chair covered with variegated cretonne and submitted, under protest, to a grilling on "the story of her life." ' She squirmed and she shrieked. Star la Silent on Age. She wouldn't tell her age, "because so many actresses stay -1" though I assure you that Priscilla hasn't. reached the sidestepping point on i that tender question. If she Isn't 18 or so, judging by her looks, nobody is. She didn't remember how much pay she got for her first stage Job j 1 11 have to ask my mother." The air was full of Priscilla's gig gles, handclaps. "Do I have to tell you all that?" "I won't tell!" and such gasps as: "Intimate 'closeup?' For the public! I must weigh ev'ry word!" But after an hour "on the stand," this is Priscilla's testimony: I was talking to the manager of a show in New York a man named Taylor, who had a whole buncn of initials and Phillips Smalley, hus band of L,ois Weber, said he'd like to use me in a picture. I was only a little kid in short dresses NO. I won't tell how old I was or what year it was -about four years ago. . I thought pictures were 'terrible' then. So I did 'bits 'Child parts, of course in three pictures for the Re liance company, one-reel dramas and melodramas. One was called 'The Merry Widow." But my real start was with Mr. Griffith, In small parts with Blograph." Dances oa Stage Recalled. After those thrc Reliance pictures. Priscilla went back to the stage, dancing for about six months at the famous "Follies Bergere." OO, LA LA! No wonder she could do a 'cooch"! But hark: "Mr. Griffith saw me dance at the Follies and asked me if I d come down to Biograph, on East Four teenth street. I did a few pictures. one-reel dramas, and danced in some. I guess I was there about a year. Out west here I was first with the Mutual, in one-reel comedies. Yes, I was featured. How did I happen to 'land' In the west? They wanted me they saw me on the screen and liked me. Soon Priscilla went out to the place where she has been ever since, the Universal studio at first to make one-reel comedies with Eddie Lyons and Lee Moran for about six months. "Lois Weber wanted somebody full of 'pep' to play a 'baby vamp' in i problem play. "Even As You and 1 She looked all over the 'lot. For a week she coaxed and coaxed Lyons and Moran to let me play the 'baby vamp. It Was she who got me out of comedy into drama." First "Five Heeler" Remembered. In that, her first flve-reeler, Prls cilla, with several others, was fea tured. That was about 1917, the fair victim of the inquisition admitted. And then about a year ago only some three years after she started in pictures and only about two years after she began taking pictures seri ously Miss Dean was starred for the first time, and has starred ever since "Pretty quick, wasn't it?" chirped Priscilla, hopefully, not conceitedly. It was under Elmer Clifton's direc tion in "The Two-Souled Woman,' founded on Gelett Burgess' "The White Oat." She had a dual role, that of a sweet girl who doesn't like man. but who later, after he has hypnotized and married her and changed her disposition, "vamps" him "How did It happen that they starred you in that? I asked, produc ing an electric storm. "They liked me as the "baby vamp They the management here there are so many bosses,! said: 'You're different type.' "They put out 'Even As You and to see how it would go and it 'wen over' with a bang! Then the exhibi tors wanted me. Yes, that means th 'dear public' wanted me. Wild Cat Parts Taken. - "Till then no one had taken a 'wild cat' part seriously. They'd had char acters full of 'pep,' even somewhat wildcatty,' but till then no one had featured that. Yes. Farrar did one wasn't it 'The Hell Cat?- but that was much later. "1 originated the 'wild cat' in 'The Wild Cat of Paris." I was an Apache wun a slinky walk: an ADachn who laws, scratchless and bites I n k n 1'f e fights! Oh, I did everything in that!" "Then, in 'The Brazen Beautv.'" continued Priscilla. "I was a 'si.ltfire' fresh. They decided to nut me in girl-crook plays. 1 wonder If they could think of anvthinir weef for m-? 'The first one was -The w:c-wrt Darling.' Then came three more, 'The Silk-Lined Burglar,' 'The Exquisite Thief and 'Pretty Smooth.' which Waldemar Young wrote for me from Bayard Veiller's 'The Chatterbox I like 'em. They were lots of fun and something new" But you haven't told us how vou broke in' on the stage,' I insinuated. while Prlscilla was going good. Girl Bora In ew York. 'Oh, I was born in New York and named after a boat going up the Hudson," replied the Chatterbox. 'My mother was a well-known emo tional actress, May Preston Dean. 'My first appearance was on Broad way! I'm one of the many whose first 'start was with Joseph Jefferson in 'Rip Van Winkle.' I played a little girl. Mini, and, the second season, Heinrich. 'I was four and I used to travel alone! All I remember of it is thun der and lightning, and crawling un der a table and screaming. All I re member of my kid part in 'Shore Acres, too. Is kneeling down to pray -Now I lay me down to sleep. I also played with James A. Hearne in 'The Children of Kings.' tor oversea year I was with the Ben Greet players presenting Shake spearean repertoire, going to the dif ferent colleges. I played the ingenue or Ingenue lead In each of our six plays. "Oh, I had some other wonderful experience in Proctor's Fifth-avenue theater stock company, with Amelia Bingham, Florence Reed, James Young and others." And hooray, felluhs! Priscilla isn't married. She "can't think of two things work and marriage at once." "There aren't many of the picture stars you've Interviewed who aren't married, are there?" she added. And then, the grilling over, Pris cilla collapsed! Rut about four minutes after ban ishing me to the studio gate Priscilla reappeared to drive me downtown in the dusty runabout for which she apologized her own car being in the process of being upholstered. Those four minutes, by tne way. had transformed Prlscilla Into a chic, dashing motorist In a dark blue serge suit and plald-llned cloak to match, with a saucy snow white tam-o'-shanter slapped over one ear. And sacre carburetter, how she can drive! And then, at the end of the short. short trail, Prlscilla said, over a friendly handshake: "It's been a pleasure! 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