Motion Picture Classic (Jul-Dec 1928)

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Won 192» Write for FREE BOOKLET aimi-Uiii ANITA INSTITUTE, 1229 ANITA Bldg., Ntwark, N.J. 72 Confessions of the Stars (Continued from page if) no sex life. I know better. I've seen it. " I've been engaged times without number. I've never 'gone' with a man who has not eventually proposed to me and presented me with a piece of ice. May sound egotistical. It isn't. Fate worked that particular design for me. "/ never Intended to marry any one of them. Not for one moment. I always knew I wouldn't. "There is only one man in my life I ever had any intention of marrying. / married him. " My one unrequited love was Lon Chaney. "He never even knew about it. He'll never know about it unless he reads this: I saw him on a bus one day years ago. I didn't know who he was. Few did at that time. But every day thereafter for weeks and weeks I made it my business to be on that bus just so that I could sit and gaze at him. He had sex appeal for me — and I knew it. "Perhaps my ideas on sex appeal are curious. To me John Barrymore has nothing. Absolutely nothing. Not even the ability to play a love scene. "Apart from love the dominant passion in my life is money. "Not babies — money. " I have a horrible, haunting fear of poverty. I don't give a hang whether I am starring or working on a big lot or creating for posterity so long as I am working and getting well paid for it. "When my screen life is at an end I shall go into advertising. Sounds odd but actually I am now divulging the long cherished and hidden mania of my working life. I've always been rabid about it and believe I'd be good at it. I spend most of my spare time now doping out copy and ideas and campaigns. I have an idea right now for busses that ought to keep me in luxury until I have a beard down to the ground. " I may not be very sentimental. At least / think straight. "I don't want babies. I'm not a mothertype. That sort of life doesn't interest me. "I've told lies about it — to sob-sisters and the like. It has occasionally seemed the thing to do — to look wistful and moist-eyed and to murmur something sweet about the longing for baby feet about our free-for-allhome. It's been a lie. I never meant it. I'm not fond of most children and what I'm doing interests me sufficiently. I'm too busy to have them. " I suppose if I ever do have one, Nature will see to it that the proper emotions come along, too. So that's that. "My chief gratification in life is what I have been able to do for my mother. She is independent. No matter what happens to me she will never have to work or worry again. She has her own home. Her own money. Her own work, too, in caring for my real estate and investments. And we, she and I, get the most enormous kick in the world out of the revolution of the Wheel. We never drive down town in our limousine, done up in our new furs, sparkling with a few jewels, that we do not clutch hands, gasp and turn back to reminisce about the days when things were NOT like this. "Of course it's a thrill having money and having it young and talking about it. Whoever says it isn't is a poseur, a liar or an imbecile. * • * • "We shall never be divorced, Jim and I. "In a world so unpredictable I dare to make such a statement. "I've been in love with him for a long, long while. There were others in between — but I never forgot my very first impression of him. It was from a photograph in a fan magazine. When he was an actor and long before I went into pictures. I remember that he wore checked knickers and looked — well, just as a man should look. " I fell in love with his photograph and I never got over tl. "Some years later I was dancing one night at an out of town cafe. Jim was there. I had never seen him before. He kept looking at me. Not a habit of his — looking at strange women — as I came to know. Soon he came directly over to me and asked me to dance. Whatever he had asked me to do, I would have done. "We danced, then, and he asked me how I would like to play in one of his pictures. I said 'Oh, yes — ' "Then I went to Europe or something, things intervened and I didn't see him again for another span of time. There came the occasion when I was called to the Famous Players lot to make tests for a big part. I didn't get it. James Cruze had to tell me the sad results. " I sat in his office and cried. I was heartbroken and beyond caring what impression I was making. I'd wanted that part so much. " He was so kindly, so sympathetic. I remember he said to me 'Never mind, the next time we meet you will be a star!' "I was!, "Later on he told me that he fell in love with me then. That day in his office when I sat and wept. He wanted to ask me to marry him then and there. It was just as well he didn't. I would have accepted him. And he wasn't free. "Again time intervened — other things — and one day I met him again on the Famous Players lot and he invited me to take tea with him at his home. I accepted — more than the tea. "He drew me aside shortly after my arrival. He said 'I think you've worked long enough. I can take care of you rather nicely. We'd better get married.' "I said I agreed with him. That's all there was to it. Not one other word. "No other words were needed. He had said exactly the right ones. Every other man I had been engaged to had ' encouraged' me to keep on with my work. They had all suggested that it would be a shame for me to abandon my career. I knew that line. Jim was the first man who didn't encourage, me, who didn't give a damn about my career, who wanted to take care of me, the woman, not the star. I like men. "Jim and I planned a different marriage. "We talked it all out befofehand. "A marriage based on individualism and non-interference. "We were old enough to know what we wanted and what we didn't want. Wise enough to get it. "And we keep to it. I know nothing whatever about his work. Half the time I don't even know what picture he is working on. And that goes both ways. I have never been on his set and he has never been on mine. I wouldn't embarrass his leading woman by sitting around — another actress and the wife! "We each have our own financial arrangements, our own friends, our own hours, our own hobbies. " I have frequently come home for dinner to find Jim entertaining a couple of his (Continued on page 86)