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It certainly was May McAvoy — er — that is — well, maybe I did get the last name wrong. It was May So and So. I remember now. But what's the difference? AU those movie stars are alike." "One way not to be talked about," said May, "is not to talk too much yourself. Most people start the gossip about themselves. I'hey make a wild statement in fun, or they think it's smart to say something indiscreet, or they pour out confidences to their maids, or talk too freely to interviewers. Now I've been interviewed for years, but nobody has ever asked me for my heart secrets. And if they ever did begin on sexy subjects as they do with some of the new stars, I'd — I'd just cut the interview off short, "All the time I've been on the screen," she added, "I've never told anything intimate about my life, except last week when a newspaper sent a writer to get my life-story." Some stars, we reflected, think any publicity better than none. They allow themselves to be made the victim of sensational campaigns. They pose in lingerie or less for newspaper roto sections. They air their views on companionate marriage and divorce. But May McAvoy has chosen to go along quietly, letting her screen work speak for itself. Even her publicity pictures have always been conservative and clothed to such a point that editors looking at them would bleat, "My God! Hasn't that girl got any legs?" " People confuse the way you look on the screen or in photographs with your own personality," May said shrewdly, "and that may be one reason why I've been so lucky in keeping out of gossip. I've always played good parts. I never have to do anything wrong on the screen. Now the vamp is almost certain to be gossiped about, and have lurid legends attached to her name, while in real life the vamps I know are happily married." The most miraculous escape from gossip May has had, has been in the matter of her rumored engagements. In Hollywood engagements are too often the subject of jocose remarks, wise-cracks and idle sjieculation. But May McAvoy many times has gone through the harrowing experience of reading the report of her engagement in the morning papers and denying it for weeks thereafter, and come out unscathed. "I suppose it was because I wasn't rumored engaged to a lot of different men, but to one man a lot of times," she smiled — a bit distastefully. We felt that perhaps she regarded this subject as sexy and might at any moment cut the interview off short. "The whole secret," we suggested, "is probably that you have no enemies," "Oh, but I have," May said anxiously, "that is — there are people who don't like me. But they don't envy me either. I live so quietly I don't attract their attention. Mother has always been with me. I'm never away from her week-ends or overnight. I don't go to the wildest parties; I'm not invited. I have such a reputation for being proper that people think I will be shocked by a lot of things that really don't shock me at all. "It's rather a handicap sometimes. Lois Wilson told me once she had felt the same thing: a sort of embarrassment and constraint in the room where people were having a noisy good time, as soon as she came in. And really Lois and I are the broadest minded people in the world." ".^nd you can go to the liveliest party without fear of being gossiped about," we marveled, "In Hollywood! You're fortunate." "Yes," said May McAvoy, "I suppose I am." Was it imagination, or did she sigh the tiniest sigh in the world? Barthelmessmates: Dick and his daughter, Mary Hay Barthelmess, sunning themselves on the deck of the star's yacht, "Pegasus", in the course of a recent cruise down the California coast 84