How Millie Became an Actress (1911)
Struggling young actress Millie Becker gets a letter of introduction from her friend Dick Graham for an interview with leading theatrical manager Howell Conn. She calls at his office, is treated with impertinence by the office boy, and is kept waiting until he gets ready to call his boss, who at last grants her an interview--if his contemptuous treatment of her can be called such. She perseveres in procuring a promise from him to attend one of her performances to see her work. He does so and after witnessing her performance, writes her a letter, telling her that she is not an actress and never will be. At first she is discouraged and then she makes up her mind that she will prove him wrong. She learns that he has gone away for the summer and goes to the hotel where he is stopping, makes up, and secures a position as a chambermaid in the hotel. She must wait on Conn and takes every opportunity to make his life miserable--by upsetting his ink, spilling his coffee, sweeping dust on him, and making herself a general nuisance. He never suspects who she is, but complains to the landlady about Millie, who takes the proprietress into her confidence, and at last, when Conn is in a furious rage, he seeks quiet in the garden. Millie gives him a shower bath from the sprinkling pot with which she is watering the flowers, and he is now quick to make overtures to her. She then reveals her identity and asks him if he does not think now that she is a good actress. He is indignant at first, but confesses that she is, and the humor of the situation strikes him so forcibly he gives Millie his card, making an appointment with her at his office in the city, where he gives her a contract at a large salary and acknowledges that she has the ability to make a name for herself and a fortune for him.
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