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IF
YOU
WANT TO BE LIKE
KAY FRANCIS
By
FAITH BALDWIN
. . . Any girl could be like her—if not physically, then spiritually or mentally. All you have to do is to learn how from this story
IF you want to look like Kay Francis you must be tall and slender with magnificent soft, shining black hair and graygreen eyes. You must nave a wide, generous mouth and beautiful teeth, expressive hands, a fine 'textured fair, pale skin and the tiniest feet. You must have character in your face and o-ood bones and a light, graceful car
riage. .. , , ,
Most of these things you must be born with; some may be cultivated if your general build and coloring follow the Francis lines. So if you want to look like Kay Francis — and who wouldn't want to look like her?— you must look like this. But if you want to be like her, be like her in character and emotion reaction and attitude toward life, that's different.
The day I saw her we sat betore a bright coal fire in the living, room of her brother's charming New York house and she wore a black negligee, very plain, with flowing sleeves, and I asked her if she'd mind if I sat and looked at her for a couple of weeks. For that's the way she affects you. And she laughed, and said she wouldn't mind; which was courteous of her. She said it in her low, pretty voice, which can't quite manage the R's and so slides over them, much to her horror.
We had something in common, for we had attended the same school. Miss Fuller's, in Ossining, New York, but, alas, at very different times. So we talked about Miss Fuller's and about the Cathedral School in Garden City to which Kay went afterwards. About her first
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marriage at seventeen, and about her original birthplace in Oklahoma, which she doesn't recall, and small wonder, as hei parents moved to California when she was a year old, and later to Denver. And, when Kay was four, to New York City. The background of Kay Francis is bound up with the stage, for her mother, Katherine Clinton, was a well-known actress, and, I judged from the little things her daughter said about her to me, a wise and wonderful mother as well. Kay's life has been colorful and varied. She has excelled in school athletics. She has in her school days written a play and played the leading male role in it. She has taken a secretarial course, travelled abroad, and been secretary to such important people as Mrs. Dwight Morrow, Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt and others.
AND she has been on the stage, as the , Player Queen in the modern version of "Hamlet," as a member of the Stuart Walker Stock Company, and on Broadway in such olays as "Venus," "Crime" and "Elmer the Great."
After that came Hollywood, and the rest is motion picture history. Her favorite role was the one she played in her recent "One Way Passage," a great picture, and she very much liked doing "Trouble in Paradise," as well. Her latest picture is called "The Keyhole." As you know, she is married to Kenneth McKenna. And I know she likes books, airplane travel, sailing, tennis, sunshine, fresh air, and a clean face — ■ which, besides being likes, are also beauty secrets — and watching all sorts of sports. She plays bridge and backgammon, and appears to possess a perfect menagerie of domestic animals. She drives a Cadillac — and a (Continued on page 105)
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