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S-t Pays
By DOROTHY MANNERS
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Homely
I BRING tidings to the freckled. I sing solace to the bowlegged.
To the cotton-topped, knock-kneed, pigeon-toed and even cock-eyed, whose closest friends insist on telling them, I offer poems of peace. ;
I feel like a girl scout doing good deeds for the day.
Before this truly remarkable undertaking is completed I will attempt prove that we buck-toothed people have just as much chance for happiness in life as our fancier brethren and sistren; that it isn't necessary to look like a magazine In th* toP ro™ above fr°m le£. to rifht<
i r 11 1 -ii r • i are Ernest Torrence, Zasu Pitts, Lon
cover to get the fellow who will furnish chaney and Louise Fazenda. In the the home if you furnish the trousseau. center, Wallace Beery; and just below
Don't you worry, little Clarissa, about him. Ben Turpin
the mole on your chin. You may get your man yet. And keep him. Fear not that your feet are flat, Burton. Look at Jack Gilbert. His aren't. But he lost Leatrice Joy. Clara Bow has all the it in the dictionary, but she's missed out, so far, on that little bungalow for two all covered with vines and mortgages. Claire Windsor is beautiful, swell and elegant, but she's failed twice in the matrimonial race. Madge Bellamy, Jacqueline Logan, Dolores del Rio, Florence Vidor, Virginia Valli, Marian Nixon, Constance Talmadge, Evelyn Brent. All beautiful, all divorced!
On the other hand, Louise Fazenda has gone through life getting her feelings hurt about her looks. According
In Matrimony, Fortune Favors the Freckled
to the standards set by Venus and Ziegfeld, Louise's features don't quite jibe. She's had that brought home to her almost all her life. When she was in school, no smitten youth mailed her valentines or wrote poems in the back of his 'rithmetic book or asked her to parties. Worse than all, even the girls rather ignored her. Louise is the first to admit that her teens were not a lovely age. She was an ungainly kid with large wrists and a mouth that spread too far when she laughed; and funny, rather crinkly eyes in place of large, dreamy ones. When she grew a little older and went into pictures, the bathing beauties over at Sennett's used to refer to her as the homely girl. It hurt at first. It hurt something awful, as it always does with girls with hearts as lovely as Louise's and exteriors that don't match. Even after she became famous on the screen with her comedy antics, there were dark days and nights when Louise wondered if life with its lovely gifts of love and happiness was going to pass her by because she didn't look the part.
But Louise, the homely girl, has won out where the
beauties have failed. For a year she has been married to
the good-looking and popular Hal Wallis. Her home, her
happiness, her life, is every girl's dream come true. And
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