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♦ ♦ ♦ This brilliant writer — who sees life and love so clearly—
interprets Janet Caynor and Charlie Farrell as "the perfect Mr. and Mrs/' and discloses the real reason for the glamor of
their screen union
FAITH BALDWIN
and to each other — and have been for some time.
Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell are also married; but not to each other, a fact which has caused their enormous public more pain and speculation and sorrow and interest than one would think possible.
However, on the screen they are the Perfect Pair and this in my opinion accounts for most of their vast appeal. Even their .willfulness has added a . zest: to that appeal. Beforetlieir marriages to other mates the "public speculated eagerly on their possible marriage to each other. Since Janet Gaynor became Mrs. Peck and Charles Farrell married the beautiful Virginia Valli the public has not ceased to speculate. They wonder incessantly when Gaynor and Farrell will come together again, if ever; when, if ever, they will unmarry their respective mates and join hands in life as well as on the screen as the ideal couple, and why and how, in real life, they came to miss each other in the first place ?
These speculations, no matter how much it may distress these splendid stars, to say nothing of the effect on Mr. Peck and Miss Valli, serve to keep public interest in the Gaynor-Farrell combination at white heat.
They are playing together again in "The First Year," that very charming stage play from which such a delightful picture has been made, and it is certainly everybody's opinion that Gaynor and Farrell, together, are better than Gaynor and Farrell alone. It isn't that each of them hasn't the talent necessary to carry on without the other; it is simply that they complement each other fully and that they are, on the screen, almost as one person.
T^O understand them a little better, it is wise to go back
Janet Gaynor first. Exquisitely pretty on the screen, she is even prettier off the screen. She has great vitality and personality. On the screen she is sweet, wistful, elfin — all the adjectives which have been attributed to her since her appearance in "Peter Grimm" and her first great picture with Farrell, "Seventh Heaven." The camera, however, by some odd trick of fate or lens, concentrates on the sweetness and wistfulness and does not give us the full force of her personality, the will of steel, the fire, the determination and the mischief.
She has always had that will ; it, together with the help of her stepfather, took her into the motion pictures. She is' shrewd. She does not permit (Continued on page 120)