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OJttiss La Mart is a child of the camera — with an odd gypsy intelligence.
from Hollywood across the border to Mexico. Only considerably more exciting and expensive.
She's an imposing person to meet, is Barbara. A combination of Gloria Swanson, Nazimova, Petrova and Theda Bara. A perfect composite of all the screen vampires. She shifts and slides from pose to pose and then disarms you by being suddenly and completely natural.
"I use to write, too," she tells you, "I began in pictures by writing scenarios. And I write some now. I was terribly in earnest about writing. I would write until I nearly dropped from fatigue — smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee all the time. I was dreadfully poor."
\"I am not really beautiful," says Barbara. "I have none of the marks of beauty. I am too longwaist cd. My nose is too sharp and pointed. My head doesn't fit my body. My eyes are crooked."
RUSSELL BAI
Barbara's Callot Pose
This immediately puts you at your ease. You, too, feel dreadfully poor and terriblv in earnest.
Shopping in Europe? _
"Clothes bore me. I hate to shop. I am not interested in clothes. They make no difference in my life. However, it's lucky I can walk right into anything Callot makes. And then my secretary is exactly my size. If I want anything, she can go to the fittings for me."
Indeed. Barbara is wearing a Callot dress at that very minute. Obviously it makes her nervous. You feel that clothes interfere with her personality: that her hair is apt to tumble down on her shoulders. She is much too restless a person to enjoy being well-groomed.
A Child of the Camera
arbara, you reflect, must have looked awfully new and unfinished in Rome. She is one of the newest products of the newest art. She is a child of the camera. And when she is away from the camera she is ill at ease. She doesn't know whether to register demureness, worldliness, mystery or temperament. She rushes from the Ritz, to the studio, to a prize fight, to the photographers, to the theatre. You mention her adopted son. "Ah, yes," she tells you, "he is being well taken care of. And I am making plans for his education. I should [Continued on page 104]