Modern Screen (Dec 1934 - Nov 1935)

MODERN SCREEN well, they have the same out-of-towners, tourists, but they also have jaded firstnighters and critics. "I'm a regular Chamber of Commerce actress. I always attended all of the Chamber of Commerce luncheons and dinners in all of the small towns. I met all of the women I could meet. It was good business. I was getting a percentage of the profits and the audiences were the profits. I've looked in the mirror once or twice and said to myself, 'Beauty won't get you there, my girl, other things may, but not beauty !" Having decided that I had to think what would bring 'em in. I decided that clothes would do it — clothes always bring women into the theatre. And so, I wore clothes they'd talk about and want to see. "Then there were Broadway plays — 'Talent,' starring Mady Christians. Theatre Guild things. The 'Garrick Gaieties,' in which I sang in my very odd voice and manner both of which are strictly tabu at home. Then came 'The Second Man,' starring Bert Lytell and that one bought my ticket for Hollywood. I had an offer. My agent conferred with me, so I named my price. She said they'd never pay it. That was all right, I said. But they did — and I came. I don't give a rap for stardom. I want to make money. I want to make money for the company. If I don't, they should drop me and probably would. I doubt that I'll be here ten years from now — Lord, what a thought ! Progress has always been what interested me most — going on — " She laughed, so slender, black-clad, brown hair and eyes accented by vivid lips. Slender, yet eating her head off as we sat at tea in the Beverly Brown Derby. ADVANCE modelForthright, frank, amused — knowing nothing of "glamor" and caring less. Scrapping the sticky old gods and bowing down to no new ones, she takes her "Art" as a "job," blows expert smoke into the face of the old tabus and laughs off as preposterous the notion that a gal must ogle a producer in order to get where she wants to go. No special reverence for Broadway, she prefers the sticks — and favors farmers over first-nighters for audience. She is, undoubtedly, the first Thespian who has not genuflected to the "Great White Way." She's told the most powerful Broadway producers that what they should ask an aspiring actress is, not what Broadway hit she has been in, but how much stock experience she has had, how many real parts, how much real work she has done. It's far more valuable and means infinitely more, says Rosalind, to have really worked in stock than it does to have brought in the mail or parked a cup of tea on a table in a Pulitzer Prize Play on Broadway, doing something a dog could be trained to do. To know your job, says Roz, that's the winning ticket. Or should be. She drives around Hollywood, Rollsroycey Hollywood, in an antiquated Ford, vintage of '29 and minus a cover, because she's fond of the old dear and likes the wind in her hair. She was once advised to profess, for publicity, a yearning for orchids, a dislike for such folksy beverages as milk and tea, a passion for champagne and exotic thises and thatses. "I couldn\" said Roz, "live with that person for five minutes !" She is a sound business woman, drives a hard contract, expects to make money for the company she is with in order to earn it. She uses her own high-powered brain to think with and pays no attention to what others are doing, or have done. She scoffs at the idea that an actress must be an exhibitionist when she is Miss Faith Corrigan, brown-eyed but fairskinned, uses Pond's Rose Cream Powder, (below) Mrs. M. Bon de Sousa, medium blonde hair but creamy skin, uses Brunette. 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