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Tomboy Talmadge
Miss Talmadge paused abruptly. “Do you still want
to follow Norma’s footsteps?” we asked.
“Well ” (and there was just the shade of longing in her voice), “everybody has decided that I am best m comedies and so, of course, I am going right on makmg comedies. They want them and they must be satisfied. But Nonna is wonderful in her emotional plays, isn t
she
Big-sister adoration it is. And now th^ the youngest of the family, Natalie, is in the h\ms, Con^nce wil have somebody to look up to her. Constance s first real hit you will recall, was as the lively mountain girl of the Babylonian portion of David Griffith’s Intolerance. That success decided her career— moulding it m the field nf comedv.
Constance Talmadge is a healthy type_ of young American girl, a happy-golucl^, rather tomboyish sort o f person — but distinctly a regular girl. No fads, no particular hobbies has Co n stance. She is quite satisfied with the fun of life
YOU come from meeting Constance Talmadge with just one distinct impression. Here is a healthy type of young American girl, you analyze to yourself, a happy-go-lucky, rather tomboyish sort of person — but distinctly a regular girl. No fads, no particular hobbies has Constance. She is quite satisfied with the fun of life.
There is nothing of the dependent, timid type of femininity about her. She is thoroly able to take caie of herself. Yet the way she looks up to her sister, Norma, is distinctly interesting. Constance s world is bounded on the north, east, south and west by Norma. The big sister is the rule by which all things of the screen are measured.
“Isn’t she wonderful?” sighs Constance, of Norma. “Growing more wonderful every moment.” And she shakes her bobbed locks with a characteristic Talmadge gesture, the while gazing ceilingward with infinite heroine-worship in her laughing eyes.
Constance’s career in the films has been an outgrowth of Norma’s success. We can recall only a few short years ago when Norma was just an ingenue at the old Vitagraph plant. “I was going peacefully to the Brooklyn schools then,” relates Constance, “with never a thought — well, hardly many thoughts — of the movies. Of course, ’way down in my heart I wanted to follow Norma, but gracious! I was homely. I dont know yet ”
(Sixteen)
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