He cynically mocked her prayers: ("Hey, I mean, praying""s for church, huh?"), and then confessed the uselessness of it all: ("Well, there""s not much sense in my going to church").And then, they encountered the Library Ghost (Ruth Oliver) (aka The Grey Lady) for the first time - the free-floating, ransparent, purplish apparition was in the form of an elderly lady in the library who was reading a book.This film was made earlier in 1923 during the silent era with Florence Vidor.This film was the first major directing success of George Stevens and it was responsible for inaugurating his career.When Jem complains to her that his father "is too old for anything," she stoutly defends him:He can do plenty of things.