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particularly bestial or submarine qualities. Her answer surprised me. Drawing a chair for me alongside her own, she said, with the clear voice of one speaking with authority, "All picture stars, or for that matter, all people who achieve in any line of work are closely connected with the animal or bird world. The more pronounced the resemblance, the more definite the success."
I asked Miss French if she were sufficiently acquainted with any of the film personalities to give me a few examples. Her next answer was even more surprising. It seems that Miss French, while in no way a movie fan, knows most of the stars from A to Z, for the simple reason that she studies them as a scientist studies a bug.
"I go to pictures not because I particularly enjoy the drama," she told me, "but because I can watch human beings in every phase and mood of emotion. I read the movie books, too, and study the features of the directors and producers as well as the stars. I find the former even more interesting than the players."
Tho I didn't tell the lady, I was beginning to see that she was just my meat. She might give me something to pass on to the world. She did.
I dont want to show partiality, but the first thing I asked was, "To what animal is Jack Gilbert allied?"
"To the Cat family," promptly replied Miss French. "Oh, decidedly so. Notice his smooth, graceful movements — his almost pantherlike dexterity. Panther is most descriptive of him. All people of extraordinary sex appeal," she summed up, "are Cat people. Ricardo Cortez is another {Continued on page 80)
Ricardo Cortez is a panther mart.
It is sex appeal that places you
in the cat class, incidentally
Both Lillian Gish and May McAvoy are of the bird families. The little, fluttery movements betraying Lillian more than any actual resemblance
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