Actorviews (1923)

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Twenty-Thousand Dollar Legs HEAR that you,” said Miss Fay Marbe, over our fruit cocktail at the Blackstone, “that you like to interview stars or beautiful women.” I laughed ; her “or” made me. For Miss Marbe, patrons of the Apollo Theater will recall, is not the star of “The Hotel Mouse” — not by at least one Frances White and one Taylor Holmes. And she is a beautiful woman — girl ; dark of eye, of hair, with an ever-smiling full mouth of coral and ivory, vivid in a summer-bronzed face of magnificent oriental modeling, and with a form whose delectable sculpture not even the prevailing sweater can exaggerate. I said, superfluously, “Which are you?” She confessed her beauty by answering, “I’m not a star yet, but I shall be next time I come.” “You’re not,” I asked, in what approximated anxiety, “going to stay away till you lose your looks?” “Oh, no,” she replied scrupulously; “I shall have both.” “I like your confidence!” I smiled. “And I like you,” she rejoined — God knows why. “I’ve been hearing some lovely things about you.” “Swaps?” I conjectured. “You call them that here, too! I didn’t know the word had gone so far. Oh, not that Chicago,” she quickly recovered, “isn’t charming. It’s my first visit