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formallv, a friend, (or interviewer), in ]i;ijanias is quite all right. (We'll say it is, ami so would auvouc who had beheld Auu May.)
"I know you wont mind." she began. "You see, I'm so frightfully busy, as I'm leaving tomorrow for the coast, with only three days' notice. Now what do you think f)f that?' I came Hast after finishing 'Paris (ireen' with Mr. Ray, expecting to stay all spring and summer at least. But here I am," indicating the adjoining room, where one glimpsed a bewildering array of dainty feminine am'arel, "madly packing.
"Not that I'm not glad to go back to the coast,'.' she said, becoming mor shining each moment. "I adore it there and I dont like New York, not at alt. The atmosphere is so unreal and every one hurries so and there are no neighbors or uiceu cozy, homey .times and no long, be-au-tif u 1, al way swarm-and-sunshiny automobile roads here as in California— I'm so tired and need tea," touching a bell and giving an order. "You dont mind if I
Ann May has never been on the stage, altho she studied dramatic art for five years. She is practically a newcomer to the screen, but her work as leading woman for Charles Ray was so effective, that she is again going to play opposite him in his first First National picture
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IF I ha<l to choose one word with which to describe .\nn May, I would choose .'hiiiiiii/. she is so un(|ualitiedly that. Shining Ill-own hair, worn in a mass f curls, eyes like twin -tars, a face as bright and a smile as sunshiny and alluring as a June morning. She has an air, too, this shining .\nn, of delicate, high-strung intensity, as llio poised. l)ir<llike. to sec wliat woiulerful thing is happening ne.xt, just around the corner. I'.veii her voice, heard before I saw her, was "shining." and then she came blithelv in, clad uiiembarr.issedly in black pajamas bizarrely embroidered in green. r<d and gold.
Time was, of course, when pajamas were merely sleejiing apparel and were never, not f'vr, worn outside one's bedroom. T'.ut times have changed and. with them, the ways of pajamas— and to receive, in
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