Modern Screen (Dec 1931 - Nov 1932 (assorted issues))

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This v story of Ann's childhood and growing-up days—as her young mother mm WHAT I KNOW ABOUT ANN DVORAK By ANN LEHR, her friend and mother — as told to WALTER RAMSEY LET me introduce myself. I am Ann Dvorak's closest friend. That I am also her mother has J no bearing on the claim I have just made. Ann Dvorak and Ann Lehr have been pals, buddies, and, until the past year, inseparable companions ever since she came into my life nineteen years ago. I was sixteen years old at the time. When I first looked into the puckered face of my blue-eyed, red-faced little daughter I j mentally proposed a toast to her, or perhaps it was a prayer: "May your life be vivid with adventure, gay and courageous," I thought. "May you know the high spots and the low spots with equal balance for both. May you learn the folly of hidebound conventions — but retain always the wisdom of playing the game squarely." I believed then, and still believe, that that was the happiest ! toast one friend could make to another — that one girl could wish for another. This very day when I read in my morning paper that "Ann Dvorak, Well Known Motion Picture Actress" had 30