Hollywood (Jan - Oct 1934)

kept on and on and on . . . and underneath the hectic gayety there was a heart that was breaking. All The Time underneath the mask . she wore of a young, carefree girl, she must have been silently groping for something else. Afraid though she was of love, underneath she must have wanted to be loved by someone who would care for her, Clara, and not for her jewels or her money or her fame or publicity. She was groping for that love, groping for herself in a world of darkness. She was so terribly alone. Her friends weren't real friends. Her lovers didn't really love her. They loved themselves too much. When Rex Bell came along, nobody in Hollywood gave him much thought. "Oh, just another boy friend in Bow's life," they said. After all, he was just a cowboy actor, and they thought that he, like all the rest of Clara's men friends, was out for what he could get from Clara. And Rex? Well, when he'd first seen Clara's pictures he hadn't liked her. It wasn't until he got to know the real Clara that he fell in love with her. Not with the screen Clara, mind you. But with that lonely little girl from Brooklyn who was trying to forget her hectic past. Rex's mother adored Clara, still does, I guess. She felt the need of a mother in Clara's life, and she took the place of a mother to her. Rex and his mother opened up a new world to Clara. They showed her the beauties of the desert and answered the starved need of her heart for beauty. They themselves had found a measure of happiness through a certain philosophy and they gave Clara books to read about it. One of the things Clara learned, so she told me, was that if you make up your mind to do anything, there is nothing you cannot do, if you know yourself. And because she believed that, Clara, who had been afraid of the microphone and had lacked confidence in herself, was able to make her grand comeback in Call Her Swage. She was able to go ahead and reduce her weight to 117 when everybody but Rex and his mother told her it couldn't be done. What the new philosophy really gave Clara Bow was self-confidence. BUT Clara, who had gone so far from her early environment, had still farther to go before she could find herself. She wanted to get way to far horizons. New York was only one spot in the world. Ranch life, though she adored it, was only a part of life. Europe! That was the next step. But she found when she came back to New York, after her trip to Europe, that her heart is still close to the simple things of life. She went back and visited the scenes of her childhood, and now there was no longer any need in her to forget. Peers and counts? Do they really matter? Will they ever really matter to Clara? She who had escaped as far as possible from her early environment went back to her uncle and aunt and humbly asked them to be allowed to do things for their children, her cousins. 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