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nce upon a time there was a little girl with golden hair and blue eyes. What? You've met her before? No, no; this is another little girl. Besides the golden hair and blue eyes she possessed some' thing much, much rarer. She had courage, of a very remarkable kind. It may have been the beautiful hair and the wide blue eyes that put her into the movies; but it was her courage that kept her there.
Winifred Westover, a real-life heroine of motion pictures! A popular leading lady, she married the great big star, Bill Hart, and became the mother of Bill Hart, Jr. And her screen career seemed to be over. But that's where the courage came in! Winifred began a battle to win back her rightful place on the screen. And, after months of hoping and waiting and praying, she won her fight. The biggest acting role in years — the heroine of Fannie Hurst's "Lummox"— was hers. It was not handed to her; she went out and got it. She had to convince both Miss Hurst and director Herbert Brenon that she and she alone was born to be Lummox. She succeeded. Her performance is an artistic triumph. The little girl with golden hair and blue eyes, still young, still pretty, still sweet ■ — is very nearly a great actress. May she win other roles as great, and play them as beautifully!
Above: as Lummox, the title role of the screen version of Fannie Hurst's impressive novel, Winifred Westover wins our Honor Page. She submerges her own character in that of the inarticulate, pathetic servant girl, who, despite her crudity, still has a craving for beauty in her soul. Miss Westover's performance in this film is one of the greatest ever screened.
Left: Lummox, an old woman now, finds her final happiness with a family of motherless children. The pathos of the yearning servant girl grown old, who has made so many sacrifices for her son, is fully realized by the actress, who disdains to depend too much upon her ageing make-up. Winifred Westover's Lummox will move you to heart-felt applause.