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color, and despite the fact that she has slipped a bit on her satin trains, the statuesque Betty still may be seen in brief scenes as a queen in "Glorious Betsy," as an opera star in Greta Garbo's "The Mysterious Lady," as modistes, and those inevitable "other women."
A score of actresses have won fame as "other women." Not the type for stars, such actresses as Hedda Hopper, Lilyan Tashman, Julia Faye, Gertrude Astor, Natalie Kingston, Mildred Harris, Julanne | Johnston, Seena Owen, and Margaret Livingston, have donned their most scintillating cost u m e s and
Wh? Don't Tke? Star?
Some of our heroines can very capably handle the vamp role, and can bedeck themselves in jewels and sin with a great deal of effectiveness. Witness Anna Q. Nilsson, as Iris d'Acqiiila, in "The Whip," Pauline Starke, as a colorful underworld girl, in "Man, Woman, and Wife," or Estelle Taylor, in the role of Lucrczia Borgia, in "Don Juan." And Dorothy Revier, that golden blonde in "The Red Dance" and "Submarine."
And so the actresses denied stardom do their parts in supporting roles. You think sympathy is due them? Sympathy because their names cannot appear in foot-high electric lights? Well, perhaps they may have a few regrets, but after all, are their positions not more secure than those of the stars? Stars may come and stars may go, but there is always a demand for these colorful ladies whose public does not tire of them in their brief scenes. A few of them fade away. of course. Nita Naldi, Dagmar Godowsky, Arlette Marchal are gone.
but it was through their own choosing, not because of lack of public interest. Nita Naldi might return now, if she desired— and reduced. Greta Nissen, the sparkling, naive, little blonde, is doing her luring and flirting on the stage at present, but the screen will doubtless see more of her. Anyway, there is still "Hell's Angels," and "Fazil" cannot be forgotten overnight.
And so they vamp and pose
and dazzle ! Not to be pitied,
but envied. Their few feet of
film are bound to be what the
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Yola d'Avril is wasted on inconsequential roles.
personified the feminine allure.
There are two new personalities who, although they assume, along with Pickford, Philbin, and Astor, the name of Mary, seem destined for vampire roles — Mary Nolan and Mary Duncan. One blonde, one brunette, they are arresting and unusual.
Did you see Charley Murray, in "Do Your Duty"? Did you notice the girl crook in the picture? She was interesting, and con Carmel Myers, as Iras, in "Ben-Hur," fairly dripped pearls, tributed a bit of and since then she has never entirely ceased playing bejewcolor. And yet her ■ eled temptresses,
name did not even appear in the cast. It was Yola d'Avril, the little French actress with First National. Wasted in next to needless roles, Mademoiselle d'Avril might be another Myrna Loy. Or the lovely girl appearing as a Grecian princess in the beautiful prologue of "Manhattan Cocktail"? Majel Coleman, although the cast didn't say so. And have you noticed Jocelyn Lee, portrayer of vampires de luxe? And Rose Dione, French actress, cast perpetually as a voluble modiste?
Rose Dione, a brilliant actress, is forever cast as a voluble
diste, more
comic than
dramatic.