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By HkHDtklCK JAMES SMITH
yc"ii> |)laccs to (lance.
'I'luii California beciinics dreadfully tiresiimc.
Thai tears came lo her eyes — real tears — when she talked of Elliutt Dexter and tlie way his sndden illness had held hack his stellar career in the *^lms.
Hut to interrupt our findings to turn to \\>eightier things :
"Tell me I look \ijunger olif the screen," commanded Gloria.
We saw our duty and (lid it. "Exactly how old am I ?" she insisted.
We [)arried, realizing \\c were on e.xceedingly dangerous ground. Finally, jiushed to the wall, we hazarded, "Twentytwo."
"Twenty-one," said Miss Swanson, in triumph. "You just pro1' -ted when I said I
In't want to go on . Miiping or semi-vampiiiLjon the screen. W'hy ?"
■' Because," said we, trying to take our editorial mind from Miss Swanson's eyes, "you're ^o vmcannily seductive. Must vampires leave us cold, but ..."
"Yes," aided Miss .S\\ anson.
"You are exceedingly
er--effective."
.\t that psychological iiiument we arrived in front of the .\stor.
We sighed with relief
Once inside, Miss Suanson attacked a healthy-sized
luncheon with fervor. .\ waiter attempted to remove the
ctress' orange-juice before she had finished — and she well
igh withered him. Right then and there we decided that Miss
■wanson might easily speak out her mind. In fact, she did.
Between orange-iuice and soup and chops. Miss Swanson ■told us more of herself. The daughter of an anny officer, she received her education everywhere. "It was a terrible handicap." she said, "my education stretching from Chicago to Porto Rico.
"I first tried pictures with Essanay in Chicago and then I
ent to the coast. There I was with Triangle and later joined
ack Sennelt's comedies. But I wasn't a bathing girl. I ever — -never — was. Please get that into your interview, wont lyou ?"
We promised.
(Seventeen)
Photograph © by .MtroJ Cheney Johnston
"I live for today," says Gloria Swanson, "anti I try to get every bit out of It. I dont believe in waitini, for tomorrow. Life is too short for that." That sums up her philosophy of life in general
"We did a series of juvenile comedies in which I had a leading r(ole. Then Mr. De Mille gave nie my chance in drama. That's all. As I never cared for comedy and my whole heart is in dramatic work, you can guess how hard I worked to make good with Mr. De Mille."
We asked Miss Swanson to tell us her philosophy of things in general.
"I live for today," she said, ''and I try to get every bit out of it. I dont believe in waiting for tomorrow. Life is too short for that."
Then our interview drifted until, like all interviews, it came (Continued on page S3)