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Jack: How much did the ice cream cost?

Mary Pearl: I think only 10 cents. Everything was cheap in
those days, because nobody made good salaries. It was good ac-
cordingly, but not good like today.

Jack: Do you remember the first movie you saw? Or any actors?

Mary Pearl: Oh no. I’m trying to think of that woman’s name.
She was a real rough talking thing.

Mary Claire: Mae West?

Mary Pearl: No.

Virginia: Marjorie Main.

Mary Pearl: That was the one. There was a show with a whole
bunch of kids and their pop was an engineer and they kept hol-
lerin’, “Pop, can I blow the whistle?” That movie, that was good.

Jack: Did you like Charlie Chaplin movies?

Mary Pearl: No. I didn’t like him then and I don’t like him
today.

Jack: Why didn’t you like him? I don’t care for him either.

Mary Pearl: I don’t know. Just something about him. I’m
that way. I just like you or I don’t like you. Nothing in between.

Jack: Tell me, Nanny, at the World’s Fair, didn’t you ride in
gondola boats?

Mary Pearl: Oh yes, they were beautiful, the way they curled
up in front. They had “lagoons” they called them at the Fair. We
had a lovely time. I got in free because they thought I was twelve
years old.