Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Jul 1929)

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Learning to make up putty noses and Fijian headdresses — to wear fifteenth-century costumes — to balance huge, plumed hats on one's head. However, there was that nice boy, Buddy Rogers, patiently donning one gray beard after another. If he ever became a star, of course he would wear beards ! And pretty Jeanne Morgan and Josephine Dunn making up as old ladies. There was always something to laugh at. "I was there three months before I really became interested. I might say to Richard Dix, 'You made me what I am to-day!'" she hummed. "I was terribly — er — broad. It hadn't worried me at all. As I crossed the stage one day, he grinned and said, 'If you want to be my leading lady you'll have to reduce.' Who cared about playing his leading lady? It was all nonsense. 'Bet you can't reduce,' he gibed and stalked away. "I couldn't, eh? Well, we would see about that. It made me furiously mad. So I went on a diet and took off thirty pounds in a month, and I've kept slim ever since." Later, after her ambition had suddenly awakened, she found the work really interesting once she put her mind to it. Paramount brought her West as one of the graduates worthy of actual training in the studio. And she did play Richard's leading lady. The metamorphosis of the cocoon into the butterfly commenced on the train, with the germ of an idea. "I had always felt so cramped, as if the walls were pressing in upon me. While I had not been conscious of any urge to be wild, I wanted to FOR SHIN AND COMPLEXION be where one didn't have to consider always the proper thing to do. At home, as dearly as I love Boston and its traditions, one's life is too neatly laid out for one. "As the train carried me farther and farther away, I wondered if out here among new associations I might shake off a little of that primness and preciseness. California, with its glorious climate, stimulated me instead of enervating me, as it does many. I felt a freedom I had never known before. "Gradually I began to come out of my shell. People looked at youth and beauty, I noticed. While brains and learning are the fundamental values, there seemed to be others worth considering. I had determined by then to succeed in pictures, and therefore I must adopt some of the new rules. So I began to pay more attention to my appearance, to shop not only for lovely clothes, but for the most stunning— for things a little different. "California has given me the youth I had missed. I have shed the years that had been added to me only by atmosphere and association." I recall that when she came to Hollywood she was a shadowy figure, hovering in the background of the brilliant personalities. The very word "schoolmarm" scared people away. My first consciousness of her as a beauty occurred at a tea given by Betty Bronson. A buzz of conversation rippled in whispered undertones across the room. The gist of it was a name, Thelma Todd. Following wondering glances, I saw her — tall and graceful, golden head against the black satin of a highbacked chair. That day she had cast off inhibitions, had made an effort to be charming and witty, and succeeded. And from then on her popularity grew. Does she miss the classroom, the rows of shiny, little faces upturned like cups to the fount of her young wisdom? The monotonous hours, the routine work, the endless grading of papers? Would she like to be a schoolmarm again? Don't be silly! ALAS! Twinkle, twinkle, old-time star, How I wonder where you are. Once you shone so bright and gay, Now you're but a yesterday! M. K. Roof.