Motion Picture Classic (Jul-Dec 1928)

Clara Bow Exposed {Continued from page 22) Observing my inarticulate condition, Clara slid o\-er to the radio and magically produced out of the void the shrill tones of Aimee MacPherson telling the world that she had found a mansion in the sky. Interested as we were in this disclosure, Clara and I decided it was high time we proceeded on our tour of inspection. No foghorn along the length and breadth of the Atlantic seaIxjard could have galvanized me into life, from the swooning condition I was in, more (luickly than Mrs. MacPherson 's voice. We swept out down a short corridor to Clara 's bedroom at the rear of the house. Another swoon was on its way, however. The bedroom of the reigning World's Sweetheart, the Empress of It, the girl who put Sex Appeal on the map. A small, almost tiny room containing an enormous red-quilted bed, a simple dressing-table, a chair or two. Quantities of color, mostly red — Clara likes it because it goes with her hair and her personality. No austere shading scheme, no priceless antique highboys, nothing Louis Quitize, not a particle of Ming, nor a suggestion of Recaniier — not even an expensive engraved toilet set. Just a few simple ornaments and effects such as any girl would have in her bedroom. On the wall, just one picture — a photograph of Rudolph Valentino. The view from her window — just a few square yards of back garden. A GREAT star's GOWNS AFTER applying the necessarj' restorax\ lives Clara had me sufficiently under control to guide my tottering footsteps into a sort of out-size closet built on to the bedroom. Here she keeps her shoes, her hats, her coats, her wraps, her frocks, Vou think of an awe-inspiring array of ermine, snakeskin footwear. Rue de la Paix millinery and Patou evening gowns? Forget it, please. Dead to all sense of shame, Clara Bow retains a morbid and almost primitive liking for simple clothes — but of a simplicity indeed astounding! She buys everything in the ordinary* department stores of downtown Los .Angeles. Believe me or not, her collection of hats in a row on one of the shelves contains nothing but the good old nmety-€ightcent variety of pull-on. Her shoes ire so plain and unassuming as to turn the -tomach of any self-resf)ecting star living in the hispano-moresque palaces up the street. Her dresses are practically all straightforward sporty affairs in every conceivable bright color, with only about three or four moderately elaborate ones for evening. Clara hardly ever goes out dancing to the right places where tourists come to view the stars. She stays home, or drives with a boy friend down to the beach to eat hot-dogs md ride on the switch-backs. She has no )L'welr> at all. .■\s I gave up consciousness for the third lime I noticed with a sickening pang that there was not an inch of ermine in the Bow wardrolje. .Merciful oblivion blotted out this appalling revelation. Worse was yet to come. 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