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Half child, half woman is Gloria Swanson. Her naivete is remarkable. She loves chicken sandwiches, bobbed hair, acting, coffee and cigarets, and hates loneliness, cooking, housekeeping and <lesserts. Most of all she longs for a racing car and a tour around the world. She isn’t in love with any one — but she thinks men are pleasant to have around
Half child, half woman is Gloria Swanson. Her naivete is remarkably refreshing — it blows like a fresh breeze across the studio lot. It is why every one likes to talk to Gloria. Always she is original without effort, and, while she is not humorous and doesn’t appreciate her own sallies, every one else is convulsed.
Gloria’s mother has always told her not to try to be funny. She has said impressively, '‘Gloria, you are utterly
wanting in humor.” It’s true, she is. Perhaps that is why she can say droll things unconsciously, just as the best child actress is the one deaf and dumb to the camera’s grind.
Then, too, Gloria has a wonderfully imaginative mind. She loves to sit by the fire o’ nights and weave a bright loom for the future. It’s always interwoven with love, for the little Scandinavian wants everybody else to share her future happiness.
Perhaps that is because she hates to be alone. Gloria calls it being alone when she’s Surrounded by company, carpenters, directors and camera-men on the Lasky lot. Unless she has a close confidante with her, Gloria is lonely. Imagine any one being lonely with about twentyfive people on the set ! But that’s how temperamental the speckle-eyed leading lady of “Dont Change Your Husband” really is. You see, her gray eyes are very deceiving. They have specks of hazel, blue and
The Delightful Contradictions of Gloria
other colors so cunningly dashed upon them that, with changes of mood, Gloria’s big eyes look different.
In order not to be lonely, and since her mother’s recent marriage. Miss Swanson has ‘‘imported" her grandmother from the Ka.st to keep house for her near Laurel Canyon. Gloria’s dearest friend, Beatrice La Plante, shares the home,
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