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WE PAY ALL SHll>(>ING <!hARGCS. If you want to maka monay writ* Immadlatsly tor full particulars and FREE SAMPLES WaKham Art Publishers. Dept 33, 7 Water St, Boston. Mat*. Can They Stay Retired? (Continued from page 29) her, flickered out. She didn't do it. Didn't care. She went to openings and parties and tested the old life to the full. It was weighed in the balance with the Long Island farm and the baby — and found wanting. Two Other Exceptions PHYLLIS HA\ ER, our very own Phyllis, is a runner-up to Dorothy Dalton. Phyllis married Mr. Seaman of the canned goods clan. She lives in a luxurious penthouse in lower Manhattan. And only puts on make-up for the Four or Five Hundred. She has gone in for forestry, having planted sixty pine trees on the pent-house estate. Imagine their surprise! She drives a couple of swell cars, is in love with her husband and fairly purrs with contentment. -She adores being just the Little Woman, for you are the Little Woman, whether you live in a pent-house or a cave. Phyllis was recently in Hollywood for a visit. Phyllis — can you get it — who was as much a part of movies as the film used in the making. She didn't feel any yen to return. When any of the Hollywood boys and girls come to New York, she says, they always come to see her. She gets all the gossip, knows everything that is going on. It satisfies. Constance Talmadge is living in our very midst. She is with us, but not of us. We almost never see her any more. Connie, who used to be the very heart of the heart of Hollywood. She is said to be more interested in reading Helpful Hints to Housewives than she ever was in reading reviews and fan letters. There are always exceptions. To everything. Everyone knows that. But we believe that they are the exceptions. And there is still room for skepticism. For they are still young, and somewhere — far in the offing — there may shine a glimmer, a faint gleam, a hope, a dream . . . Remade, Not Retired YEARS ago, five, six or seven, Mary Pickford solemnly and consideringly assured us that she was through with kiddie parts and therefore through with the screen. She and Doug, she said, would eventually make one picture together, and then — farewell. Forever. She said that her small stature forebade her entering the dramatic field and that as childhood, even on the screen, must one day make way for maturity she, in turn, would give way to the inexorable hand of Time. She didn't. She hasn't. And now she admits that she doesn't want to. She says she would be utterly wretched, if she didn't have her finger in things movie. In order not to retire she has accepted and triumphed over the handicap of not being Garboesque in size. Colleen Moore, shortly after her marriage to John McCormick, annually announced that at the expiration of her next contract she would retire, travel, have children, read books and "l-ive private." Contracts kept on blooming like the flowers that bloom in the Spring, tra, la; and Colleen kept right on blooming with them. Colleen is no longer married. Colleen has, at this writing, neither conjugal nor cinema contract. But report hath it that Colleen is about to undergo a metamorphosis. We will see her rise, they say, a phoenix from the ashes of her adolescence. A new Colleen, with Depths, will be among us, to tarry a long, long while. We hope so. PEOPLE conjecture about the beautiful Corinne Griffith. Will she stay as retired, as she says she will? Corinne says yes. Others say no. It would appear that Corinne is studying Voice and things, haps for chamber music. Years ago. Rod La Rocque sententiou assured me that he would work for more years and then, when he had amasl enough samoleons to go abroad, he wo live in India and Be Himself. You have had any picture post-cards from Rod s, ing, "X marks my salt-mine. Wish y were here." Have you? And speaking of the La Rocque fami X'ilma Banky La Rocque recently and a very firmly announced that she was throu that she was going to stay at home and the little house frau she has always lonj to be, that she would go in for kiddies it Big Way and be a proper wife to Rode Warner Baxter has stayed Vilma's ha from rocking the cradle for the time beii She is to play opposite the Cisco Kid in latest. Lila Lee, when she married James Kiii wood, resolved to abjure the grease-pai for all time. She would be domestic a have a few little Cuddleses of her o\\ Finances and things went flooey and it I came necessary for Lila to Do Somethir The screen was all she knew. She we through a period of desperation for fear s would have to retire. Panic Time BEBE DANIELS experienced somethiij of the same panic during those daj days prior to "Rio Rita." She knew th* that anything she had ever said about t|| tirement, traveling, home-making was t| bunk. She didn't want to be through. S!f knew that she had too much to give , Solitude and Europe and Improving Ond Mind — stale, stale, flat and profitless. You will note that the resolve to retire iej fragile thing, marked Unbreakable, but-j but crash into it with a swell part, a fattilj contract, a Break, the need to economiJ or any other Fact of Life and hear the pretl( tinkling sounds the pieces make. Marilyn Miller swears by all her go Flo Ziegfeld and First National, that si will retire at the end of her next New Yon show and her next two pictures. She sajl she has always said she would retire befo 1 the Public began to fidget and rustle its pn'j grammes. But how to know when thij dread hour comes? There are so outs ... A mosquito might have bitten ) audience. A wind might have passed ol the house . . . Zasu Pitts hopes to retire when she enough money to adopt several more chil dren and run a Nursery of her own. St€ lizing milk means more to Zasu than star in pictures. So says the unique Pitts. ILDRED DAVlSbecame Mrs. Haroll Lloyd. She dwells in marble halUf 5he Retired. She had a baby. She says it) orful. iVo/ the baby — Being Retired. "Hail old has people to the house. They tall shop, shop, shop. Sets, and what hapjjeiti in the studio. When all 1 can do is bleal hopefully, 'Oh, Gloria has a new tooth] and hope someone will be thrilled to that Gloria has a new tooth. I feel so ov of things, not a part of anything, dumb ! • • • 1 Mary Hay promised Richard Barthek mess, when they wed, that she would pei manently retire from both screen and stan She tried it. She couldn't. She picked up th! pieces, professionally, and dropped then matrimonially. It sometimes goes like thai Maurice Chevalier told me that his wif' is content for long sp>ells at a time, and thei for long spells at a time she is not content. Can they stay retired? I doubt it. S6 J