Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Jul 1929)

Advertising Section "Txtfinkletoes" Continued from page 65 me dancing dey paste up on streets. At night I sneak by und cut dem off und take home to keep. I stand out in front by t'eater to vatch my name go up und down de lights. I am grand suc-cess, ooh, boy! "Den agent from Keith-Albee offer me American contract. My manager say I cannot go, he haff contract for me in Berlin. I can't be bothered. I hear of Pola in America. So I vill come here. Nobody did I haff to read contract. No, not me, I am a smart girl. I am chust plain darn fool. Dat contract not v'at he says. "I put on airs, to my friends. From de boat I write my manager I cannot act for him no more. I am gone to America. In New York my Keith-Albee manager leave me at hotel. Dat night I hear a v'istle — fire, you know. How I jomp from my bed is nobody's bizness. I vas so scared. Later, v'en I am in show at Hippodrome, peoples v'istle. I am scared und I run und von't go out front of de curtain v'en my manager push me. Den I find out dey v'istle because dey like me. Fonny! "Und I t'ink Hollywood close by. Second day on train I ask, 'Vere is Hollywood? Not Hollywood yet?' Dey t'ink I am era-zee. V'en I get here I go to Ambassador. Sure, I live grand. For t'ree days. I find out v'at it cost und I get out queeck. In Berlin I haff meet Elise Bartlett Schildkraut, so I call her und tell her I am here. She invite me to visit dem, so I safe my skin. Dey are ver-ee nize. "Den de Barrymore peecture, 'Tempest.' Sixteen veeks I vork, many close-ups. At home on piece of paper I put down always v'en I haff close-up. But at preview v'ere am I ? Only vun close-up. Yah. Dey giff me vamoose, und how !" Her real name is Sascha Bragowa. She is of German and Russian parentage, with French somewhere in the background. With her black hair — worn straight, like a Japanese doll's, her brown eyes and olive skin, she looks Latin, rather than German. At first she had "much troubles" about money. "I buy somesing und leafe twice as much for change. I go into hotel und I figure, so, on paper. I see I am cheated. So I go back und say, 'Giff back to me more moneys.' Vaiters t'ink I mean all dat for tip, sometimes, but dey find out no." The matter of ordering food was also a problem. "Eggs for veeks because I can say it. Den I order v'at odder peoples haff, und v'en I get it I don' like it. Tough times, I'll say." At the moment she was having a tough time with the celery. "Not again vill I haff dis in poblic," she decided. "It's too stiff. It's not nize for peoples to hear you eat." Again this child of candor startled me. "Not much schoolings. I hate it. In Berlin I go to de public schools, but I vill not study. Dey teach you from books, but not about life, und it's life you got to know." Just how much this naive twentyone-year-old knows about "life" she didn't say, and it's difficult to hazard, so mixed up are her childlike enthusiasms and her sophistication. She has her "mudder" here now, and a new house and a lot more dolls. She is enjoying going to parties, buying clothes and taking tests, and thinking about when she will be "all ofer in electrics." Frankly, she admits missing champagne and the attentive gentlemen abroad who gave "grand celebrations" for her. "Already I got two t'ousand und eight hondred fan letters here, yah. You bet your life I count 'em. Und I answer dem myself, in English. V'en I haff a million und my name in lights all ofer America und Europe, I go home und giff my friends a celebration." Altogether, she's rather a joy to listen to, and to watch. How much of that impetuosity will get onto the screen, movie formulae for vamps being what they are, I can't prophesy, but I don't see how they can entirely snuff that twinkle. Tke Herd Instinct He missed the boat, he missed the train ; He went bareheaded in the rain. He never thought his watch to wind, Did everything before — behind. 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