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Starting as an extra girl earning twenty-five a week or less , she had managed , somehow , to get the part of Betty in the screen version of The Magician , probably because she struck the director as being the type ; or perhaps her gift of mimicry had something to do with it , and the youth glow that was in her face . At any rate , when the picture was finished and released , no one was more surprised than Lyddy at the result . They offered her three thousand a week on a three-year contract . She wired her mother , but Irish Mary wired back : `` I do n't believe a word of it hold out for five am coming . '' She left for the Coast . Incidentally , she got the five for Lyddy . Lyddy signed her name to the contract -- Lydia Lissome -- in a hand that would have done discredit to an eleven-year-old .