Modern Screen (Dec 1931 - Nov 1932 (assorted issues))

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A marvelous article with vital information — both for men and women. An absorbing feature by Adele Whitely Fletcher called "Ten Commandments for Popularity." If you want to know how to increase your number of admirers, read it. 104 and well liked than that he should find out what a really mousey sort of person I am ! " As a matter of cold truth, Ann had not a single beau to her name. She was not the type that men invited out to "show off" or to be entertained by her wit. She never has been and never will be any part of a "goodtime girl." She was disgusted with the silly philosophies of young boys her own age . . . and fearful that she would bore men older than herself. When Howard Hughes would call up, Ann would sit beside the telephone shivering and shaking with excitement as though she feared he might be able to see through the 'phone, discovering her there alone, unasked for, her face cold-creamed, eating a ham sandwich, instead of enjoying the scintillating social' festivities I concocted for her ! As "Scarface" advanced further into production, the Hollywood "grapevine" carried the reports of a new and startling discovery. Ann would read to me with delight the columnist hints of a new actress, said to be the most colorful personality since Joan Crawford. It seems the girl's name was Ann Dvorak ! When the picture was actually completed Ann sat back to await the developments of the role that was to establish her. Is there need to go into the many delays and postponements of release dates that held up "Scarface"? The censors played havoc with the picture that was doctored and changed so many times before it saw the light of a movie screen in New York. In that time Ann was like a person going through the wild hysteria of a nightmare. She had visions of the picture never being released ... all her glowing ambitions smashed to earth before they had a chance to blossom. She even discussed the possibility of attempting to borrow certain scenes out of the picture to use as "tests" to show other producers what she could do. Just when Ann had decided that Cesca was created to perish unseen, the censors relented and "Scarface" opened in New York ! I DID not see the picture until it opened in Los Angeles. It did not seem possible that this vivid creature the New York critics described as Ann Dvorak could be the girl who was my daughter and friend. I couldn't help wondering about this "abandon" they so insistently contained in their paragraphs regarding Ann's work. The girl I knew was so different from the person they painted. It was not until I saw the picture that I actually understood . . . Ann was an instinctive actress — true, she needed polishing — but her work was all the more amazing to me because the emotions she portrayed were not gained through real experiences, but from some inexplicable understanding within that we know as talent. I knew when Ann first flashed upon the screen that she was there for an interesting career ! Warner Brothers had become very enthusiastic about Ann as a screen personality following her performance in "Scarface." It was arranged that they should borrow her from Howard Hughes for James Cagney's picture, "The Crowd Roars." Upon completion of that film her contract was bought from Mr. Hughes for $20,000. Ann received no part of this money. Her salary from Warners was $250 weekly. Following "The Crowd Roars" Ann went into production on "A Stranger in Town," then into another picture whose title slips my mind (certainly Ann must not have been enthused about this part for I heard so little about it). Then the momentous day when she was cast in "The Strange Love of Molly Louvain." I say it was a momentous day because it was in that picture that Ann met Leslie Fenton, the man she married two and one half months after their meeting ! IT has been repeatedly written and hinted that I do not like Leslie Fenton ! That I objected strenuously to their marriage and did all in my power to stop it. This is not true, and I am sure that Ann and Leslie would be the first to back me up in my claim. To the contrary, I consider Leslie Fenton one of the most charming men I have ever met, although my sense of humor compels me to admit that I had met him only twice before he became my son-in-law. One of these occasions was a casual encounter in the hall of our apartment building when we paused to chat for a moment before he and Ann went driving. The other was the night I pleaded with him and Ann from eight o'clock in the evening until two o'clock the next morning, to wait a year before they jumped into matrimony. Strange how things happen, isn't it? When I first began to feel that some other great influence was coming into Ann's life, I met the man who had become estranged from me because of Ann's career. In other words, I went back to my second husband (Ann's stepfather) just about the time Leslie Fenton came into Ann's life. If I seem to be hurling facts too rapidly at the bewildered reader, it is only because, in attempting to recreate the emotions and events at that time. I discover they happened in amazing rapidity to us ! Ann never exactly told me she was falling deeply in love. She did not have to. I knew it. I knew all the restless, ecstatic symptoms. At first I was frightened by the depth of emotion I recognized in Ann. Yet how could this first love be otherwise to a girl of her intense nature? Ann had never even been mildly interested in a man until she met Leslie. There hadn't been any little puppy love experiences. Love hit Ann like a ton of bricks . . . from out of nowhere . . . without warning ! Just as my husband had objected to Ann's career, he objected to Leslie Fenton as a possible husband for her. He had no particular reason except that his great fondness for Ann had convinced him that there are very few things, and practically no men, good enough for her. Once more we knew the stormy sessions of clashing wills in the confines of our apartment home.