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By Gladys Hall
PROBABLY nobody on the screen or on the stage is better qualified to answer this question-before-the-house than beautiful Joan Crawford. For no one is more actress. And no one is more woman. And few have, so perfectly balanced, two great and major loves in their lives— the love of their husband and the love of their work, in the order given.
And Joan, the new and thoughtful Joan, said to me, "At bottom, actresses and all other women are the same. There is no fundamental difference. We are, all of us, blood sisters under our skins. But our skins are different. Superficially, actresses are different from other women. But the differences are not what they are popularly supposed to be —
"Actresses are not vainer than other women. They are more careful. Our looks are a part of our stock in trade with which we get substantial rewards. We are more careful not only of our hair and teeth and skin and figure but of our health. We have to be.
"Very, very seldom do you meet any actress who does not try to get the proper amount of sleep. Very rarely do you see any actress who lets her figure go; and by not letting it go, she keeps in condition. Actresses are seldom seen with ungroomed hands, or hair, or clothes. We may and often do wear sweaters and skirts and comfortable things where other women will be swathed in furs and gleaming with jewels. But we are always clean and manicured and neat. We care less for clothes than other women because we have to think so much about them for the screen, have so many fittings, give so much time to them.
"For these reasons — and other more important ones — actresses have the ability to be better wives than other women.
Whether they make the most and best of that ability is an individual matter and has nothing to do with being an actress.
Watching Our Step
WE ARE, believe it or not, careful with our money. I allow myself fifteen dollars a week spending money, for make-up, for lunches, for all the expenditures of the week. Douglas allows himself twenty-five. I have known many a man to go to the altar with an actress-bride buried in debt and to find himself a year later buried in stocks and bonds.
"Actresses learn faster than other women. They see a great deal more tragedy.
"And actresses are different from other women right there. They have less chance for happiness. They have far less chance for contentment and peace. Life is harder for us, more complicated, harder to sustain. We have to fight harder to hold our home and husband and reputation.
"There are so many people watching, eager to take these things away from us. Annie Jones could desert her husband and seven children, take a number of lovers, burn up the town, and half a dozen people might or might not be the wiser. If one of us so much as has tea with some other man or woman, the tabloids are fixed with headlines for weeks. We are as other women — but — with all the ordinary risks and dangers raised to the highest pitch.
"We have to watch other women come into our homes and coolly disregard the fact that it is a home and not a hunting ground.
"We have to watch our husbands making impassioned love {Continued on page 102)
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