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The day before I i 11 t e ri e w e d Martha Mansfield I went to Alfred Cheney Johnston for some p h otographs.
“Martha?” — he began, his face lighting up — “Martha ? You’ll just love Martha. She is so frail. She is an exquisite pastel. You cant connect Martha with the theater at all. She is sweet, and fine, and dainty — a fragile flower.”
I believed all this until the next morning.
When the Mansfield door opened.
And she stood in front of me. Not smiling.
But laughing.
And wearing a sports costume.
Of the gayest color.
And revealing from under a ' hat.
Hair.
More dazzling than any bonnet. And greeting: “I’m so glad you came just when you did. Because if you had not arrived at this minute, I should have gone for my walk.”
We went inside. The livingroom was cheerful and cozy. Miss Mansfield did nob s i n k into the divan, but crossed her legs on the piano bench.
Photos by Alfred Cheney Johnston
field alternates b et AV e e n the Ziegfeld Frolics and the motion picture studios. She is best known o n the screen for her work as leading woman . for Max Linder several years ago
A Mansfield of the Follies
By C. BLYTHE SHERWOOD
I didn’t really mean to spy. But the odor of flowers attracted my attention to look in their direction, and behind them 1 saw some interesting books, and in back of the volumes, in state, stood the photograph of Hazel Dawn, and high above the Dawn hung a Leyendecker poster, and; in a direct angle, pointing to the other corner of the room, peeped a hockey stick.
“Skate ?” query au naturel.
“No,” illuminatory smile. “Not now. I like swimming and I (Continued on page 76)
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