Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Jun 1929)

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e White Q^hadoivs and Q\ahl Raquel Torres's First Day of Glory Came Hand in Hand With Grief By DUNHAM THORP BUT, Baby — can't you wait just until I die? I so much don't want that my name should be dragged in the dirt. I have always try so hard." "But I am a good girls, Daddy — honest I am! An' everybody like me so, an' is so nice. No one don' be nasty to me." "What mus' be, mus' be. If you were born bad, you will be bad; if you * ; are good at heart, you will stay good. I can do nothing, Baby — only pray for you." "I'll be good, Daddy. An' I'll be famous. I '11 take you to the openings instead of a boy friend. Won' that make you proud? — to go to the openings with the famous Raquel Torres, instead of her taking a boy friend?" " I hope so. Baby." In such a manner did a little Mexican girl win her father's consent to accept her fourth offer from the movies. He had vetoed the preceding three, and the four offers of vaudeville contracts as a dancer — but now two strokes of paralysis had weakened him. Lying alone in his bed, he had remembered that, ever since she was a small child, she had wanted a movie career above all else. True, it was not the life a Spanish father would choose for his daughter; but — she wanted it. He realized, too, that she would never be happy so long as this desire was thwarted. And, above all else, he wanted her to be happy. The First Reader SO, when "White Shadows in the South Seas" opened at Grauman 's Chinese Theater, the electric lights bore her name. But the famous Raquel Torres took with her to read those lights — a boy friend. But that is the end of our story. Let's go back to the beginning. We start, then, with the efforts of a father trying to fill, in the lives of his two daughters, the place of the mother R. H, Louise who had died. Even though he was the largest distiller in Sonora, and thus a man whom many might damn even without a hearing, Paul von Ostermann fulfilled his task so well that those two daughters idolize him to this day. But this was too good to last. Circumstances drove the father from the placid seclusion of Sonora to the more energizing air of this ambition-feeding country. And the serpent had entered in the breast of his younger daughter. Guillermina von Ostermann (now Raquel Torres in the credit titles) was tempted of an Eileen Sedgwick serial — and fell. "One night I dream I was losed in the — the — where there's lotsa sand, what you call it?" "The desert?" "Yes. I dreamed I was losed in the desert an' lotsa bad mens was assaulting me. An' then there was a sheik on a white horse, an' ever 'thing was nice again. Jus' like the picture. Only me, instead of Miss Sedgwick." Could she ever be the same? Well — she wasn't. I All Corset to Go W^OULD used to dress up in my sister's clothes, an' i. Her father decided to send her to a convent in Tucson, Arizona. As if that could stop her. It made her instead a full-fledged fan. Using the address {Continued on page 86) 63