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THE THIRD
OF A SERIES OF REAL LIFE STORIES
Betty Compson
Tells Her Untold Tale
By GLADYS HALL
T
THIS is the third in the series of articles called CONFESSIONS OF THE STARS. Stories that have never been printed before in any magazine or newspaper.
It has been frequently said that there is nothing new to tell about these First Favorites of the Films. We disagreed. There is something new to tell, or something old, something caged away in the heart, the mind, the soul of every human being. Something never before related because of inhibition, forget fulness, relucteuace, fear — an untold tale in every life, however public that life may have been. This untapped source aVraits the bait of patience and persistence.
And it yields, does this source, the very essence of the life-stor>'. For it is characteristic of people that they most reluctaintly reveal the things neeu-est to the heart. It is instinct to shield the intimacies of the soul, until one knows that these intimacies will not be violated.
Out of the gold and white fragility that is Betty Compson there comes this stor>' of sturdy emotions, influences, fears, radical theories, modem love — Betty Compson's Untold TaJe —
Ladies and Gentlemen, for the first time in any publication!
{Author's Note.)
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HE passion of my childhood was to be a tight-rope walker. In a circus.
The second passion of my life occurred when I was three. It was for a growm man. And it was a passion. Nothing childlike. No imitation.
"/ have always been in love. I've never been out of love in all my life. I never expect to be. One love after another. From the begmning to the present.
"/ would rather make Money than Art. Why not tell the truth.''
"My fear of poverty far outweighs my fear of death, old age — or any other casualty.
"/ shall never be divorced. "In our case divorce is impossible. Our marriage is founded on a rock — a different rock from that of any other marriage I know of.
"I think Lon Chaney has more sex appeal than any othermanon the screen. And John Barrymore has less. He has nothing, nothing at all. "I may as well go back and elaborate on these statements. * * * * "My first powerful desire was for the circus. To be a part of the circus. It spelled Heaven to me. I'd been taken to the three ring marvel and I saw Bird Millman. She was the heroine of my childhood. She was the incarnation of everything I desired to be. I saw her there, swaying, aerial, beautiful and brave, and I felt that life could hold no greater glory than just that. I met her a few years ago. Life was kind to me. My idol was not shattered.
"Everyone knows, I think, that I was brought
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