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By Sonia Lee
Joan Crawford
Found in Marriage
Here's your chance to know all about the new Joan
MRS. FRANCHOT TONE stood sapling-slim against the wall, and breathing deeply, reached for glorious high notes, and achieved them. Her music teacher at the piano smiled contentment and approval as her fingers raced over the keyboard in accompaniment! The girl taking her music lesson — the girl you know as Joan Crawford, in her sleeky-tailored white slack suit, was as unlike the Joan Crawford of a few months ago as the mind can conceive. There was the same broad, intelligent brow, the same deep eyes, the same fluent mouth, the same intentness, which always characterized her. But the point of difference was a quietness as penetrating as it was intangible.
For years the most remarkable characteristic of this ardent young person was a driving force. Not always with purpose — not always with clarity. But so intensified that at various times it high-lighted the varying facets of Joan's personality, giving basis to the many stories about the "changing" Joan Crawford. Unquestionably it is marriage. Unquestionably it is because Franchot Tone has correlated her qualities and talents — even the forcefulness of her ambition. Certain it is,
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that as she stands there while the minutes tick away in that sound-deadening room, (so that she might receive no distorted idea of the importance or the beauty of her voice) this is a Joan Crawford who becomes in turn an inspiration and a revelation.
There is a poise in her bearing. A lack of emotional tension which adds not only to her as a person, but also as an artist. She has had self-assurance before — that is indicated by the distance she has traveled from her beginnings. She has had faith in herself before — for women with little faith do not span the distances between a job in the chorus and stardom on the screen. Such a hurdle demands courage as well.
This Joan Crawford is the embodiment of all the Joan Crawfords who have been presented to the public. It is my belief that in reality those varying Crawfords were only phases of the same girl — a girl who was seeking the underlying personality within herself, and was succeeding merely in revealing small portions of herself as crises in her life arose. Today she is a happy Joan. Because at last she has found a love which permits her completely to lose herself, she has, paradoxically enough, found herself ! [Continued on page 76J