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By
WILLIAM F.FRENCH
BUT ELSA MAXWELL, WORLD'S CHAMPION PARTY-THROWER, WRITER, MUSICIAN, FASHION ARBITER AND MOVIE AND RADIO STAR, FINDS TIME TO DEBUNK AMBITIOUS "DEBS"
BEAUTY — sex appeal — glamor! Anybody will tell you that's what it takes to get there in pictures — that without it you haven't a chance, not a look in. Consider Elsa Maxwell, for instance. And you'll have to consider her if you're in Hollywood. Because she's all over the place ; and there's something about the bouncing Elsa that catches the eye. To use her own expression, she carries a lot of weight.
But without glamor, beauty and dainty grace. what could she do ?
She could get a contract to write and star in her own pictures at two different studios; be the most sought after female in Flickerville ; blossom out with her own radio program : have the biggest magazine editors in the country pursue her for
interviews and series of articles of her own writing : publish a book of memoirs ; rate as an international authority on clothes and on society — and see the funny side of the whole thing.
Seeing the funny side of anything and everything— especially herself — is this woman's specialty. In fact, "many, many years ago," as she puts it, a sense of humor and the ability to play the piano was every "stitch" she had to her back.
And where would that get a girl? Into vaudeville, of course. Into vaudeville, into the hearts of her fellowmen, into all sorts of mischief, into society and, finally, into the Hollywood studios for a fancy salary. Which is some accomplishment.
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Elsa Maxwell has many rules to become
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24 is to give your sense of humor a chance