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Just to show you what an expert Jeanette is at this grudge racket : When she was eight years old, a little boy who had promised to take her to a Hallowe'en party failed to show up, and she was very mortified. The next day in the school-yard, when she asked him why he didn't come, he turned around and gallantly told her to go climb a sourapple tree. Jeanette grew to womanhood, still seething at the memory of that insult. About two years ago, she and her mother returned to Philadelphia for a visit. The boy innocently called her up and said he would love to see her. Jeanette seized the 'phone, her green eyes blazing. "Once you told me to climb a sour-apple tree," she snapped. "Now, how'd you like to do the same thing?" — and she hung up with a bang. She felt fine after that. When she was in the chorus of "The Night Boat," younger and less experienced than any of the others, the company came into New York one night and were told to get off at 125th Street instead of Grand Central. Jeanette didn't know how to get home from there. She knew one of the principals, who was sitting beside her, lived in the same block with her, so she timidly asked, "Can you tell me how to get to Forty-Ninth Street from here?" The woman gave her a contemptuous look. "I really don't know," she said. "I'm taking a taxi." Years later, when Jeanette was a big leading lady and the other woman wasn't much of anything, they were introduced in a cafe. " I remember you very well," said the other woman effusively. "I don't believe we've met before," said Jeanette, drawing herself up to her full height. It made a new woman of her. "Of course," she admitted, "I shouldhave been able to get all the satisfaction I wanted from just having the opportunity to snub her, without actually doing it. But I'm afraid I'm not quite big enough for that." She must have a long list of Hollywood people to be dealt with when Fate gets around to it. "People were very cruel to me when I first came out," she said — more wistfully than resentfully, strangely enough. Her voice has a tremulous quality when she least suspects it. "I thought, 'Well, as long as I'm going out there, I'll be one of them.' I had a big part, and I expected to be welcome. But nobody at the studio had anything to do with me. I'm sure they didn't realize what they were doing, or they wouldn't have been so cruel. Not one of them spoke to me. And I used to look right straight at every person I passed on the lot, hoping that someone would smile at me. "George Bancroft was the only person who spoke. He came up and shook hands and said he hoped I'd be very happy working there. Mary Brian used to smile at me sometimes, but they were the only ones who gave any sign. "Since then, I've met people in Hollywood whom I like very much and who have been lovely to me. And my feelings aren't hurt any more, and never could be again. But I will never expect anything of Hollywood actors. "There is such a great prejudice against stage people. I have been repeatedly attacked in the press by people whom I've never met and who have never even seen me. I can't explain it, but it doesn't worry me, because I know I'll be given the opportunity to get even, sooner or later." She began to smile happily, in anticipation of her one vice. It's quite a feat to be able to talk about your own vengefulness for an hour, and still give the impression of being completely delightful and good-natured. The reports of the MacDonald temperament are greatly exaggerated, according to Jeanette. "I don't know how the rumor got started. I am particular about my clothes — I think every actress is. But I never have any trouble with them. The wardrobe at Paramount is perfectly fine. And I'm fussy about my hair, because I don't think there's anything that makes so much difference in a woman's appearance, do you? But I don't call that being temperamental. "As a matter of fact, if I ever have an outburst of temper, everyone on the set roars with laughter at me, and I end up by apologizing, and feel very silly and ashamed of myself. But that's not what I call temperament." Personally, I like a girl with a little spirit. Jeanette knows what she wants and usually gets it. But if you ever happen to hear any rumors about temperament or other mean traits, you can be sure they aren't true. "What are you laughing at?" barks out Rennie Renfro to the center canine, standing for training for M-G-M's doggy comedies 104