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"The thrice-mended Maxwell ended up with a bashed-in rear end, even if I did not. But this casualty was not fixed. At all the subsequent showings [of Something New]—wherein I brought disgrace on my profession by stooping to commercial advertising—that self-same Maxwell stood fenderless, paintless, battered, in the theatre lobby. An immmodestly lettered sign claimed she'd come through the Hell of the Desert and a Thousand Gun Shots exactly as she came spanking-new from the Factory! It was almost true."
-- Nell Shipman


Source:
Shipman, Nell. The Silent Screen & My Talking Heart: An Autobiography. Boise, Idaho: Boise State University, 1987. (p. 89)