Aubrey Smith), who took her up to the offices of a major Broadway management casting office, Lewis Easton Productions, where while waiting in the lobby, she met her competition - a more experienced actress Miss Gwendolyn Hall (Geneva Mitchell) swathed in a fur wrap, who complained about the number of auditioners:"Evidently everyone else has heard it too." Self-deprecating, Adrian replied: "Don""t tease me," but Rocky was respectfully sincere about her budding beauty: "I""m not teasin"" ya." In he film""s first hint at her stinginess, she is upset and naturally distressed by the diagnosis: "Oh no! That will cost too much, won""t it?" "For the first time in his life, McTeague felt an inkling of ambition to please a woman.His stoic, unflappable reactions to fateful calamities, his ingenious and resourceful uses of machines and various objects (water tanks, a large piece of timber, a cowcatcher, a rolling artillery cannon on wheels, and unattached railroad cars), and the unpredictable forces of Nature, provide much of the plot.