Maud Allan, part V

At the end of her fifteen-month tour of the Far East, New Zealand and Australia, Maud Allan sailed from Australia in late January 1915, arriving in San Francisco in late February.1 For about a year she stayed with her parents, who were living in a bungalow on Lucille Avenue, in a seedy part of Hollywood. During the summer of 1915 she played the lead role, which included a number of dances, in a photoplay titled The Rugmaker's Daughter, no copy of which has as yet been discovered. To judge by the extant reviews, this romance had few redeeming features, one critic complaining that it was much of a melodrama to be a good burlesque, too much of a burlesque to be any sort of drama.2 In all likelihood Maud agreed with the critics because in later years she barely referred to this venture. En route to London in early 1916, Maud had an emergency appendectomy in New York, from which she nearly died. Her parents came to join her during her convalescence and posed for a photograph with her in Central Park. In New York she also met the colorful journalist Frank Harris, who had recently been appointed editor of Pearson's Magazine. One of his portraitswhich was printed in the Musical Courier for April 17, 1916

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