Hollywood (Jan - Oct 1934)

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Janet Gaynor declares war on loneliness and unhappiness . . . and you'll be surprised at the result ! A New Janet Gaynor is ready to face the world which she has shunned for over a year! Soon Hollywood will recognize her as the grown woman, no longer afraid of life, that she has become. The transformation is complete. Idol of all small towns, butt of cruel Hollywood ridicule, Janet has been living an unheralded and unpublicized life such as Garbo could only imagine in her dreams. It has been a strange picture — that of a girl whose fan mail and weekly salary check rank with any of the movie industry's most popular entertainers separated from her fellow workers by as wide a gulf as could come between people in the same business. "What?" Janet exclaims. "Live among all those picture people and their petty squabbles? I should say not!" • Janet doesn't forget that she is a picture person herself. She just can't convince herself that she is part and parcel of Hollywood. And she isn't! She works at the studio, draws her salary from a producer, and there the likeness ends. She realized this when she withdrew from Hollywood society a year ago this spring and surrounded her private affairs with an inpenetrable cloak of silence. But today she wants to try again. She wants to live, free and unhampered by her fear of what Hollywood might have to say. The heartbreak and discouragement which drove her into seclusion are things of the past. She has recovered her sense of equilibrium. When Janet and Lydell Peck were divorced, Janet thought she wanted seclusion from everything Hollywood was. She broke all her ties with the cinema capital and plunged into an entirely new life, completely foreign to anything in the past. At the time of her divorce, the harsh light of unfavorable criticism was being played on her work in pictures by sophisticated critics and snobbish actors. Rumors were abroad that Charles Farrell was largely responsible for fee dissolution of her marriage ties. Sickened, Janet made up her mind to completely alienate herself from Hollywood. Now the first keen hurt has been dulled. She wants to mingle again with those she tried to forget, live what she thinks would be a normal life for an actress. She decided to strike a happy compromise and it turned out to be the solution she was seeking. Yet she spurns the offers of a gay Hollywood whose only demand is that she become an integral part of it. That she will never do! • Her life of the past few months has taught Janet that she must retain more of her individuality than do most of Hollywood's film stars, if she is to return to their life and be happy. Three servants, a cook, a personal maid, and a chauffeur, run her home which stands between Beverly Hills and Hollywood. She lives here because she found it imperative to be in such close touch with her studio. Otherwise, her home would be miles from the capital of filmland. She does manage to have her personal refuge to which she flees when it is vacation time. Malibu Beach is the natural choice of nearly every Hollywood personage of importance enough to afford its beach houses. Because Janet was only too well aware of this fact, she selected an GAYNOR HOLLYWOOD 40