I made inquiries, of course, and felt a really personal sense
of loss when I could get no trace of him. I knew then, as well as I
know now, that he was destined for eminence in our world of painted
shadows. You may imagine my chagrin later when I learned that
another director was to reap the rewards of a discovery all my own.'
"And so," continued Miss Blivens, "it was with the Henshaw words
still in my ears that I first came into the presence of Merton Gill,
feeling that he would-as he at once finely did--put me at my ease.
Simple, unaffected, modest, he is one whom success has not spoiled.
Both on the set where I presently found him--playing the part of a
titled roue in the new Buckeye comedy--to be called, one hears,
'Nearly Sweethearts or Something'-and later in the luxurious but
homelike nest which the young star has provided for his bride of a
few months-she was 'Flips' Montague, one recalls, daughter of a long
line of theatrical folk dating back to days of the merely spoken
drama-he proved to be finely unspoiled and surprisingly unlike the
killingly droll mime of the Buckeye constellation.
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