Modern Screen (Dec 1934 - Nov 1935)

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BROWNATONE is only 50c— at all drug and toilet counters — always on a money-back guarantee. 104 AND now let's turn to some of the girl stars. I am habitually amazed that those kids who arrive in Hollywood as young immature, unsophisticated, badly groomed, shy little creatures, emerge, a year or so later, as glamorous, gorgeous, worldly women. Women? They're still under twenty, most of them. No matter how many times it is pointed out to me, I never fail to get a kick out of Loretta Young — divorcee, a pet of Hollywood's intelligentsia, a woman with views on life, love and marriage, a woman whom you could not imagine being caught in a situation which she couldn't handle. And she is at the age when most girls are graduating from college. There are so many like her — Jean Parker, Patricia Ellis, Maureen O'Sullivan, Rochelle Hudson, Thelma Todd, Bette Davis, to name but a very few. To tell of them all would be repetitious. Ann Dvorak will, I think, illustrate my point. In a way, her experience has been identical with them all. I remember Ann when she was a little extra girl around the M-G-M lot. Joan Crawford saw her and made a sort of protegee of her and tried, I recall, to promote a romance between Ann and Marshall Dumeld, the University of Southern California's football player. The match didn't promote because Ann was too shy. She was sixteen, then, inordinately ambitious but without the slightest idea of how to go about achieving that ambition. She had about as much poise as the heroine in the high school play. And yet, there was within her the knowledge that she had talent. But they told her her nose wouldn't photograph. And she tightened up whenever she made a test. She couldn't talk to people and she suffered a thousand torments when she went to a director to ask for a part. Today she is just past twenty, but she has the manner of a woman of the world. The once shy kid has glamor dripping from the tips of her fingers. And she says things like, "There is nothing in life worth while but being free." She became mature enough to give up her career after her marriage to Leslie Fenton, because she realized how fleeting is Hollywood fame, and went around the world with her sophisticated husband, with whom half the women in Hollywood had been in love. But what brought about this truly remarkable change? The actual occurrence happened suddenly. The change, itself, with all its ramifications, came slowly. Howard Hawks was looking for a girl to play the role of Paul Muni's sister in "Scarface." Karen Morley, a friend, got Ann the interview. It was the first time she had been off the M-G-M lot to look for work. Hawks didn't know that she suffered acutely from embarrassment. Hawks didn't know that her nose wouldn't photograph or that she tightened up before the camera. And when she talked to him she felt that he had confidence in her. AS a matter of fact, Hawks was desperate. He had tested hundreds of girls for the part. He was tired of the search and it was pre-determined that he would like Ann. But that, she didn't know. All she saw was that he seemed to believe in her. She made a grand test and got the part. After that, it was easy. Nothing succeeds like success. She was a success, and the poise, the assurance which she now has came to her so quickly that it is as if there were two Ann Dvoraks, the shy kid and the present worldly woman. And that's how the ugly ducklings invariably change into the beautiful swans. They lose their fear when a producer or a director becomes interested in them, buoys up their self esteem, gives them confidence. This confidence changes these girls so radically that they do not even look the same, as you can see for yourself by comparing any "before and after" photographs. JOHN BARRYMORE. Has ever any»-» one changed more completely than he? Once the stormy petrel of the Barrymore tribe — the man who could always be counted upon to make the bizarre, the fantastic, the startling gesture — has settled down into being one of Hollywood's best citizens, a family man, a devoted husband and father. Recently I was shopping in a department store and I saw a plump, matronly woman followed by a brow-beaten looking husband with his hat smashed down on his head. He was carrying an arm load of parcels, following docilely, a few paces after his wife. And that was John Barrymore, the Barrymore of the flashing profile, the man who used to shock young girls into a state beyond recognition, who obeyed no man, woman or law, who was affectionately called "the kid" by his brother and sister who, although they never conformed in their lives, were paragons of respectability compared to John. And this same John carries parcels for his wife. What has changed him? Well, sigh a sigh for fleeting youth. It is surely a better life he leads now, a more satisfactory one. No outside influence, no remarkable chain of circumstances has caused this change. He has grown older, that's all. The fires of daring, rebellious youth are out. It happens to the best of good fellows in Podunk or Hollywood. What fate led Ramon Novarro away from his life of spiritual hermithood and made him into a gay, laughing, party boy? The answer is simple and has happened many times. The death of his beloved brother, for whom he had sacrificed so much, for whom he had such high hopes and ambitions, showed him how fleeting is life and made him start upon a campaign of rose-gathering while ye may. Ramon has changed more drastically than almost anyone in pictures. COLLEEN MOORE, once the most docile girl in pictures, waited a solid year under contract to M-G-M for a screen role that never materialized. She was embroiled in a political mess that kept her off the screen all that time — drawing a salary, but in no way furthering her expected "comeback." It was during that miserable year of waiting that she turned rebel and began demanding the favors she saw other stars demand and get, when they screamed loud enough ! I could name dozens more who have changed completely. This is how those I have mentioned are now. But tomorrow ? Who knows what they will be tomorrow. No city is so kaleidoscopic as is Hollywood. One turn of the little cylinder and there is a new, a fascinating, a colorful pattern. Its people change with the changing pattern. And they are right, for there is little virtue in remaining the same. We may make mistakes. We may take the wrongpath. But that is better than standing still. And the more personality phases we pass through, the richer our lives become. Have you changed radically in the last five years? If so, why? Bring the secrets of your mind and your heart into the light. It will do you good. Knowing yourself, analyzing your own mind will make the world a more handsome place for you. It is the basis of all personal psychology, and a pretty darn good basis !