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Rhythm and Rebellion
By
MAUDE CHEATHAM
Right is a recent portrait and below is Eleanor Boardman's appealing Amelia Sedley in "Vanity Fair." Her current picture is "The Day of Faith"
ELEANOR BOARDMAN spells Rebellion! You would never gins-, it when you sec her on the screen in those sweet, sympathetic roles that have brought a delightful rhythm to a number of recent pictures. "That's just it." wailed Eleanor, "They always give me goody, goody parts when
1 would rather play characters "
I laughed. It was amusing to find a girl with her lovely angelic face, and eyes that flood quickly with womanly tears, craving to mask her charms in vampire and worldly I It is nearly always the other way
Her rebellions date away hack. In fact, they first hurst forth when she suddenly discovered that her pioneer spirit had been placed in a staid old Philadelphia atmosphere. According to the program, her life la) cut and dried before her. Traditions chained her to a narrow path.
When she asserted her indepetn' to think for herself, which she frequently did. she was rebuked. She was expected to be merely an echo of past generations. "Families are a wonderful institution." admitted Eleanor, "hut they have a disressing way of arresting any development individuality. Seldom is a child given freedom really to grow — to become a nite personality."
magine the battles were spirited. She was
bird hopping about on the family limb,
at the sun and longing to try her wings
teen she ran away to .New York. "For the first time I really breathed." she explained. "Of course. I had a hard struggle. 1 expected this, and I also had several bad experiences but these taught me to live.
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