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EMMA -LINDSAY SQUIER
will talk while I grease-paint the face — n'est-ce pasf"
I said we would, and while I was thinking what I wanted to ask first, she forestalled me, talking with her lips, her eyebrows, her shoulders, and occasionally gesticulating with a stick of "fleshing" with which she was plastering her cheeks.
"You want to know am I French," she said positively. "Everyone a.sk that. But yes, I am born in Paris, in 1900, at eight o'clock in the morning — I do not remember about it, but they tell me I was there !" The audacious brown eyes dared me to dispute it.
".\nd in France I was not an actress. I was in school — and very strict school, too. I was not naughty Parisienne — until I came to America. People here like to think French girl as 'oo-la-la' kind — is it not?'
I admitted it mostly was, but Beatrice had plunged into her story once more, pausing now and then in the middle of a word to critically examine her make-up in the mirror, or to exchange the grease-paint stick for an eyebrow pencil.
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Miss La Plante's first real chance came with Sessue Hayakawa in "The Beggar Prince" and after that she was featured in "The Stranger." She now has a contract with Pathe for one-reel comedies
to be with my sister, who married a colonel in the .American army, but when they left California. I decided to stay and work. English — no, I did not sjioke it. I understood a little, but I was afraid of getting the ha-ha's, so I kept still. The first word I ever speak — you could not print it — some taught it to me before I knew how it meant."
She paused, eyebrow pencil suspended, almost ready to quote the unprintable word, then she thought better of it and began beading her eyelashes with
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