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the engagement. Making bad whoopee.
But that was after he dropped one of the curtains just as Mr. Fairbanks was doing one of his daredevil leaps and the camera never recorded it.
Luck was against him in other ways, too. He was under a seven-day contract but he caught tonsillitis on the fourth day and couldn't toot • the trumpet. So finally, he gave up his career. Or, rather, he was forced to.
After we signed to buy the encyclopedias and the set of Yale — or was it Purdue.' — Classics that came with the 'cyclopedias — as he so cunningly called them — he gave me Joan Crawford's telephone number and told me that if I did decide to go to Hollywood, to call her up and get her advice on just how to get along in pictures.
It seems that the encyclopedia salesman had a friend who was very anxious to meet Joan Crawford and nobody at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio had her telephone number. At least, his friend would s^own call Mr. Mayer or Mr. Thalberg or Mr. Rapf and ask for Miss Crawford's telephone number and they would say that they didn't know it. So one day the encyclopedia salesman's friend went out to Culver City and waited all day until Miss Crawford drove up in her coupe and then he threw himself under the wheels. Of course. Miss Crawford had to stop and give him her 'phone number and tell him to give her a ring and let her know how much it would cost to have his leg dressed and arm set.
When I got to Hollywood, I called Miss Crawford on the Bell instrument right away.
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WHAT would you advise a girl to do. Miss Crawford, if she wants to make a success of pictures in a big way? How should she conduct herself socially.' Should she go stepping every night with a different sheik.' Or should she sit at home and knit.' What should a poor girl do if she wants to go into the movies.'"
"Does a girl have to go into pictures.'" Miss Crawford asked me.
That, of course, gave me a thought. It was a welcome change.
But I don't think Miss Crawford really understood me. When a girl is inspired like I am to become a motion picture actress, reason plays no particular part in the matter. Look at girls like Joan of Arc and Peggy Hopkins Joyce. They let nothing deter them in pursuing their {Continued on page 84.)
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Before Marian Nixon, below, met Ben Lyon, she was invariably to be found in her bed by nine o'clock. Now she goes dancing a lot. And so does Sue Carol, above, unless Nick Stuart wants to play bridge
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