Margaret Mayo

Margaret Mayo
Margaret Mayo (1882–1951) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and actress. She is best known for her play "Polly of the Circus" (1907), which became one of the first works to be adapted into a silent film. Mayo wrote several successful plays, including "Baby Mine" (1910) and "The Fighting Hope" (1908), often focusing on romantic comedies or social dramas. Over her career, she made significant contributions to early American theater and cinema, both as a writer and as a creative force in adaptations for the screen.

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Chapter I The band of the "Great American Circus" was playing noisily. The performance was in full swing. Beside a shabby trunk in the women's dressing tent sat a young, wistful-faced girl, chin in hand, unheeding the chatter of the women about her or the picturesque disarray of the surrounding objects. Her eyes had been so long accustomed to the glitter and tinsel of circus fineries that... more...

CHAPTER I Even in college Alfred Hardy was a young man of fixed ideas and high ideals and proud of it. His friend, Jimmy Jinks, had few ideas and no ideals, and was glad of it, and before half of their first college term had passed, Jimmy had ridded himself of all such worries as making up his own mind or directing his own morals. Alfred did all these things so much better, argued Jimmy, furthermore,... more...