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By FAITH SERVICE
sky-line. "I nearly," she told nie, "went crazy the first night I arrived. Some friends met me and took me some place to dine ... I dont know where ... I was so excited and seeing so many things all at once, so it seemed to me. I just kept bobbing from one side of the taxi to the other, asking questions galore and always coming hack to 'Where is the Statue of Liberty !'' I thought I couldn't be hajipy until I had seen that."
After dinner we insjiected some creative fabrics known, commonly, as gowns ; likewise hats and vamp negligees and such-like triumphs. I discovered in tlie delicate process the innate good nature of Juanita, a sort of ready and open obligingness pleasing to find. Tired from a long day at the studio, strenuously serialing, anticipating a repetition of the same early the following morning, she still tried on the various hats and gowns for us, (her secretary, her P. .\. and >ne), with unvarying eclat and with varied and always bewildering achievement.
Then we went into the dimly lit, mirror-hung, exotic living-room and toasted our feet against a coal grate . . . and talked ... I asked her what had induced her to leave the Sennett line of work, et al.
riiotographs by Edward Thayer Monroe
Left, Miss Hansen in a Turkish costume which reduced ye interviewer to a state of semi-consciousness for the entire evening. "One day I made up my mind that I would make good," she says. "More importantly, 1 made up my mind that I could make good" — and she has
"/ s ti d d e II t y found myself," she said; "I 'had always been very self-depreciatory and without any .self-confidence at all. I thought every one I sawwas so supremely much better than anything 1 was or was doing that I would come away completely crushed and discouraged. I'd see Lillian Gish, or Norma Talmadge, or Blanche Sweet, and I would go home and think, 'Oh, they are zvondcrful! I can never be like that.' and I would be so blue I would be actually in despair. Then, one day, it came to me like a flash that each one of us has his or her own ])articular place in the scheme of things which no other person can possibly fill or even touch. No matter how small the place, it is our own place, uniquely, to do with what we will. It came to me as sort of revelation. No one can take anything from us or give anything to us in so far as our niche in life goes. We are all personalities. No two of us are similar, really. I sort of felt that I had met myself and for the fir.st time. I took a look at myself in the glass. I was still young. I made up my mind that I would cut out ]/arties and fooling (Continued on paye 83)
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