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up in a little mining town about as far from civilization and certainly as far from culture and 'advantages' as a girl could well be. No books. No social life. None of the things that constitute the average childhood.
"But I think few, even few of my intimates, know that one person and one person alone is responsible for what I have done, what I may do — my mother.
" Ayid not because she is my mother. That has nothing to do with it. Because she was my good friend. Because she was an individual. Because I liked her as a human being.
"She never tried to 'bring me up' in the usual sense of those words. She didn't try to rule me. She never said 'You can't do this or that.' She didn't exact obedience — but she got it.
''She 'taught me to take care of my body. She wouldn't let me wash dishes or sweep or clean. 'You'll need your beauty some day' she said, 'you'll need your beautiful hands and you must keep them beautiful.'
"Most mothers are too inhibited to lay stress on the marketable value of a girl's body. My mother wasn't. She knew that life is niggardly and that we need all of our weapons whatever they may be. She knew what mine would be. She knew right.
"She wanted me to be a concert violmist. But to be a violinist takes money and there wasn't any.
"My mother was fearless. When I came to Hollywood and after I had been in comedies for some time, I had another offer from another comedy lot. I warited to take it. I needed to take it. My mother suggested that I turn the offer down. She told me that I had done enough of that type of work and that it had nothing more to offer me. She knew what that advice would mean — hunger. It did. But as a result I am able to say that I was the second girl ever to make
good in drama via comedy. Gloria Swanson was the first.
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"I've always been in love. Never out of it.
"Never a month, a week, a day since birth when I have not been engaged in some passionate amour. When I was three I fell in love with a man of thirty or forty. And I • experienced every pang I ever knew in more mature years. Possessiveness. Thrills. The whole gamut and range. Not jealousy. Never jealousy. I've never been jealous of a man in allmylije. Icouldn'tbe. Don't tell me that a mere baby has (Continued on page 72)
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