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Ann o' the Vikings
and thought ponderously of the many mispronunciations of her inherited cognomen. Then William the Conqueror spoke holdly.
"Ann, you should have a name that people can rememher and pronounce. I'm going to give you that name and" — looking about the scenery carefully for inspiration, then up at I'.right Angel Trail, and tne great trees silhouetted against the sapphire and amethyst veils far above them — "I herewith christen you '. Inn Forrest.' "
F.ight years ago .Xnn 'vas going to school in Denmark, her birthplace, and learning English and I'Vench rapidly. She si)eaks without accent, in deep alto tones, entrancing in quality. \ isitors never can believe that the voice they hear from the distance belongs to a little girl like Ann.
When Mr. Kroman lost a fortune abroad, the family decided to emigrate as it was trying— in a country where caste rules strongly — to be half poor. The parents, with five children, came to Tacoma, Washington, and two and one half \ears ago, .\nn began her screen career. -She lost over eight months of that
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Ann Forrest first became interested in pictures in her native city in Denmark, where old Broncho Billy pictures were shown. She would attend with her schoolmates, and often washed that she might act. Now her friends are all interested in her success
By way of paradox, a wag of t h c studios nicknamed .\ n n Kroman " T h e .MelancholylXnnc, ' for w h e n .\nn weeps the work is fo thoroly done tliat f)nl()okers furtrvcly fish for handkerchiefs,
'l"om Moore had a way of making .\nn laugh just when she was sujjposed to be at her weepiest, but one day when 1 hapiicneil on to Stage 4 at (ioldwyn. the little Danish girl had her revenge. .She had withstood the engaging, genial Irish smile of Mr. Moore and, clasped in his arms, was doing her "scene" so thoroly that the synip.ithctic star forgot everything hut .Xnn's seeming suffering, and the very next thing was a close-up of Tom .Moore with big tears dribbling ilovvn his cheeks— a thing not written in the script at all!
Since that time, Tom Moore hasn't attempted to make .\nn spoil rehearsals.
( )h. 1 forgot — you were wondering how Ann Kroman came to be named .\nn b'orrest, weren't you !'
It was.down at the bottom of ( irand Canyon. William I'arnum looke<l over the five-foot-two of blonde, Huffy leading lady from Scandinavia
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