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been disputed. Miss Ferguson was born in New York City and attended normal college before she went on the stage. She is the patrician off the screen as well as on. Her home is on Madison Avenue, in New York, which will not mean much to you, unless you know that it is the last stand of the old Knickerbocker families and quite impregnable if one doesn't happen to be just the right sort of person to live there.
Once upon a time, there was a pretty little blond girl attending the University of Washington, who was specializing in music, and who dreamed of becoming a grand opera singer. Her name was Wanda Petit, and she studied at the university for two years, then went to New York and was graduated from a conservatory of music. The very week she received her diploma, she lost her voice ! She was very miserable for .a while, even accompanying Alfred Spaulding, the violinist, didn't console her. Then the opportunity came to play a small part ill a picture. She accepted and has been in the silent drama ever since. Now she's a star. You know her as Wanda Hawley. Secretly, 'tis said, she hopes and hopes that some day her voice may return to a condition where she can depend upon it and achieve her big dream after all.
If May Allison hadn't been just too cute and fluffy and gay for grand opera, that highbrow form of art probably would have caught her, too. She admits that she used to want to be an opera singer back in the old days when she was graduated from the Centenary Female College of Birmingham, Alabama, where .she took a special course in music. Afterward she studied music in Boston and in New York, too. But all of a sudden the family needed money, and so May went into musical comedy. In fact, she and Blanche Sweet and Lois Meredith were at one time all together in the same chorus. Later on she distinguished herself in musical comedy and farce, but left the stage to go into pictures with Metro.
A lovely and picturesque little figure was that of Tsuru Aoki as the only Japanese girl at Stanford University the year she entered. Miss Aoki, who is the niece of Sada Yacca, the famous Japanese actress, was sent to this country by her aunt to be educated. She studied first in a convent, but afterward went to Stanford University.
"But I was so lonely," she told me pathetically, "away from all my family and the
sisters and girl friends of the convent that I only stayed a little while. Then I went back to my father."
Betty Blythe took two years of collegiate training at the University of Southern California, then spent two years studying voice in Paris. Once she thought to be a writer, and later she had ambitions to be a physician, but she listened to the siren call of musical comedy, and she's played everything from front row of the chorus to "Ophelia" on the legitimate stage. But, no matter what her minor ambitions were, she always attended closely to her musical (Continued on page 85)
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'The aristocrat of the screen" — Elsie Ferguson.
Wanda Hawley almost reached the operatic stage.
May Allison had a good musical education.