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She has perhaps posed for more cameras than any other girl in the w orld.
Making Over Martha
A process aided by her own deter
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mmation and a very small hat '
SHE went into a little Broadway shop. For the umptieth time that day, she uttered '"Have you a very small hat — so — flat— — witli a feather?'' This time, after all her search, she was to be rewarded. For she saw unmistakably the object of it, a hat of her description, in a show case. But the saleslady smiled, and brought out a willowy hat with plumes, and said:
"Try this on. Miss Mansfield. It's more like the type you wear on the Roof."
Only by the most admirable self-control did Martha Mansfield retain her habitual poise. "But — but I don't want that kind! " she cried. "I tell you, I have been uptown and downtown and all over town trying to find a very small hat, flat — so — with a feather — 50. I want it for a picture, an ingenue part: Fm not on the Roof any more!"
The glitter that a Ziegfeld girl gives off lives on after she has passed — into private life, or pictures. But Martha got the hat. Martha transformed herself from the gorgeous peacock who parades from eleven until two P. M. on the roof of the Amsterdam Theater, where Mr. Ziegfeld makes good his
boast that he has the most beautiful girls in the world workinsc for him. Martha became the sweet, unspoiled MiUlcent Carew in John Barrymore's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" — the one ray of light in that masterpiece of crime and horror. Martha wore old-fashioned gowns, old-fashioned hats, and an old-fashioned mien. The hat is the hat she wore in the final scenes, ilurinp the murder of Dr. Jekyll by Mr. Hyde, during the heroine's last dim tryst with her fiance. Martha simply made herself over; and incidentally. Martha made good.
She tried both Follies and films for a while. When you have been a beauty of the theater, in Winter Garden and Dillingham Century productions and in Follies and Frolics, it's a bit hard to settle down to regular hours and early-to-bcd-andearly-to-rise rules. At first. Martha Mansfield would act in the Follies and the midnight revues — snatch a bit of sleep and a bite of breakfast, and get down to a motion picture studio at nine the next morning. But when she would return to the theatre in the evening she encountered the friendly kidding of her co-workers. "Wake up. Martha I" they'd laugh at her. (Continued on pagf 121)
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