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CAiiOLE LOMBARD (Paramount Player)
The marvels of plastic surgery kept Carole Lombard's screen career from coming to a tragic end.
Some years ago the blonde Port Wayne, Indiana girl, then a student at a private school of dramatic art in Hollywood, took: a screen test which turned out so well that she was given a five year" contract by Fox.
For a year she worked with that company, and although she looked upon herself as an amateur, managed to become quite popular with film fans.
Then came disaster in the form of an automobile accident which left her with a frightfully cut and torn face. For a time it seemed that she weald be so disfigured that she could never appear before the cameras again.
A prominent plastic surgeon in California was called in to worr: on the case, however, and as the result of his scill, Miss Lombard njw has no raomentos of the crash to show.
But her Pox contract had lapsed during those months of treatment and she was faced with the necessity of earning money to pay her doctor bills. As the result she jumped at a chance to become a bathing beauty on the Mack Sennett lot, allowing herself to bo chased for a year and a half by the wild waves and wilder comedians.
Tiring of displaying her trim figure in one-piece bathing suits, she left Sennett as have 30 many leading figures of tne screen, and became a free lance artist, wording in almost ev-?ry studio in Hollywood before signing a contract with Pathe, as the result of her excellent work in "Me, Gangster," for Fox.
In the eighteen months she was with Pathe she played the feminine leads in a number of important productions. For a while after that Miss Lombard was the bird of passage of Hollywood, working with Paramount, Fox and