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just a bit too much for her to deliver without a widespread challenge. In The Divorcee, Smilin' Thru, and Private Lives she was given an opportunity to be herself and came through with flying colors.
Carole Lombard and Joan Crawford are at their best when portraying Carole Lombard and Joan Crawford, as are most stars, and as themselves belong in the groups to which they have been assigned, which if questioned may be checked by placing ethereal, or fashionable types in the earthy, plain, rugged or manand-woman-on-the-street groups or vice versa.
Incidentally, when in doubt regarding types and how they should be grouped a thorough scanning of both oral and ocular, sight as well as vocal qualities, will help to set one straight. Voices singularize personalities as well as fixed ocular qualities.
In grouping stars as we have, wTe cannot be too squeamish or we may find ourselves in a situation similar to Robert Benchley's when he lectured on how to identify criminal types.
Seeking the perfect type of arch-criminal Mr. Benchley had an artist make a composite picture of a neo-cephalic forehead type of criminal and a subeurythmic chin type which turned out to be a perfect likeness of Robert Benchley himself.
In short, no single facial characteristic, mouth, eyes, chin, nose or forehead is sufficiently indicative of character in a star to type a star, those characteristics singly and severally of no practical help in objective casting, no indication of the sympathy a star is able to provoke or induce as a type, or the extent to which he can mystify or excite.
In other wrords, physiognomy, the science of reading character or disposition into the lineaments of face or form of body, produces nothing but complications, petty contradictions and confusion. Casting as a laboratory problem is no good. Sensing character and disposition intuitively and verifying results by direct comparison with groups of strongly similar characteristics is the best procedure.
In fact, if we would get anywhere in fixing the flexibility of stars they should be viewed in direct contrast with each other and several groupings. For example, Olivia DeHaviland, the lower part of her face is graced
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