Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Dec 1916)

FAVORITE RECIPES OF FAVORITE PLAYERS Valli Valli , Beverly Bayne and Rosemary Theby Give Some Interesting Recipes By LILLIAN MAY Valli Valli is just as fascinating as a screen star as she was before the footlights — and as a real person she is most charming. She looks decidedly French, but “I am English and proud of it" she told me in her dressing-room at the Rolfe studio. “Am I domestic? Well, I should rather say I am! Dont I look it?" she said, pointing to a curlvhaired dog, adorned with a huge ribbon bow, who was curled up beside her. “Dont forget to include Boyce in the interview. He is quite important just now, as he is in the picture I am working in. It is said that he is a very good actor. “Seriously,” she continued, “I am very domestic in my tastes — that is because I am English, and the English are all home-lovers, i you know. I have my own apartment— my little home with my dog and my maid. It is both quiet and restful and I am happy and content. “In New York especially there are so few real homes. So many people live in hotels or in apartment houses and eat most of their meals at restaurants. I was not brought up to live that way and could never get used to it. In England it is an event to go out for a meal ; but here, going out for meals is an institution. “Even professional people like myself,” Valli Valli reminisced, “have their little homes over there — a little garden, some flowers and j dogs, but here, if one wants a garden, it has to be an estate up the Hudson or some such place, and of what use is a’ home if it cant be near one’s work? I like the American people ; they are very good to me. America is a wonderful country, but it is so big and things are done on such a large scale ; sometimes I feel quite lost. “Yes, I can cook,” she replied to my question, “but prefer to have my maid do it as I dont keep in practice. What would I serve to guests ? I (Thirty-three) should ask them what they like best, and then proceed to get it. I care very little what I eat. I like a nice cup of tea when I am tired, and know how to make it. Not because I am English, but because I am particular about having the water freshly boiling, and using a teaspoonful of tea to each person, and serving at once.” — l VALLI VALLI “With thinly sliced lemon, loafsugar and a clove or two,” added the maid, who was standing near. “Yes, if one likes it,” concluded V alii Valli with an eloquent shrug of her shapely shoulders. Beverly Bayne, the much admired Metro star, who has long been the leading woman for Francis X. Bushman, is celebrated among her friends for her ability and ingenuity as a “chef.” “Oh, yes; I would just love to talk to you,” she said. “You see I spend so much time just acting that I welcome an opportunity to talk. “Isn’t my dressing-room going to be dear?” she said, with a comprehensive wave of her hand around the room, which, it was quite evident, was in a state of being renovated. The walls were freshly tinted a pale pink. There were pink chintz draperies with cream-colored borders at the windows — and with her own hands Miss Bayne was busily sewing on yards and yards of the same material. “For my dressing-table and wardrobe curtains,” she explained. “I have to spend so much time here, I want my room to be attractive. Pink is my favorite color as you may have guessed. See mv bird ?’’ pointing to a green cage with vines and pink ,j*>v roses trailing over it, and with — yes — a small green zvax bird sitting jauntily on a perch. “No, it’s not a regular bird. I would n ’ t have the heart to shut a real bird up here, but I thought this a good substitute.” "What do IflB you like to $ r do best?” W/ “Well,” she said, with that Js# charming seridSjy ousness of hers, m/ “as to my work I Y like to have people take my hand and say, ‘You are a real person, aren’t' you?’ I get hundreds of letters from young girls, saying my work makes them happy.