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Clara's New Beau
By
DOROTHY MANNERS
UNLIKE Harry Richman, there's no danger in his eyes, Cherie, but maybe Clara doesn't care. On the contrary, his eyes are quite blue and guileless and he uses them for smiling.
He isn't smarty, or sophisticated or night-clubby. Dinner coats make him mad and just average coats make him uncomfortable. For the sort of social life he covers in his daily routine, a sweater serves all purposes nicely.
Three or four years ago the Fox Company jerked him up from cowboy-ing in Buck Jones unit and starred him after changing his name to Rex Bell. He does not look like a cowboy and so his pictures of wild West life were not particularly successful. He looks like a typical Hollywood juvenile.
His hair is black, though it used to be blond. This sudden change of coloring threw several newspaper reporters into a raft of subtle and sarcastic comments. "He dyed it to please Clara," quoth one sister with a giggle up her sleeve. As a matter of fact, he dyed it because his hair was so sun-faded it registered in streaks for the camera. The dye job he considers entirely unsuccessful. As soon as Nature permits, he will again be a blond — streaks and all. "He's dyed his eyebrows and plucked them, too,"
Romance has always beckoned to Clara Bow, the promising protege of Madame ("The It Woman") Qlyn. But life is never dull for a girl who has one pressing (or even depressing) engagement after another. Her first beau was Gilbert Roland, then came Gary Cooper, followed by "Vic" Fleming, the director — and the one and only Harry Richman. The latest to receive Clara's favors is Rex Bell, the former cowboy actor
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Gilbert, Gary, "Vic" Fleming, Harry And Now Rex, In The Order Named
gleefully reported the same lady who called attention to his hair, and this, too, was supposed to be in honor of Clara. The truth is, when he dyed his hair, he got the dye all over his face, including his eyebrows, and he looked so "villainish" with scowling black brows that he tried to rub off the dye with pumice stone. When that wouldn't work, he yanked them out!
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She Speaks His Language
E'S really a nice kid, eager
and friendly and enthusiastic
like a young pup. He insists he hasn't had much education and doesn't always speak "proper English." That is one reason he is so attracted to Clara. She didn't have much education to start with, either, but it's "wonderful how she's learned about — things." She never, never makes a mistake in grammar. And she helps Rex with his own little difficulties, too. Whenever he starts a sentence with "It don't" or some other phrase that grates on Clara's educated ear, she makes him go back and start all over again.
He's been hanging around Hollywood {Continued on page gf)
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