Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Aug 1919)

CLASSIC The Ethelescent Miss Lynne {Continued from page 33) — but there the resemblance really ends. However, if you look at some of the old stills in which both girls were featured, you’ll turn with a puzzled look to a know-it-all and ask, '‘Which is which?” So you see, I cant dub Ethel opalescent, for her radiance is more than tonecolor. It’s ba.sed bn a nature both beauty-loving and practical, idealistic and common-sensible, humorous but with touches of wistful tenderness — in short, it’s her Ethelescence which charms. Mr. Christie has put forth 134 comedies in which he has featured various stars, and Ethel Lynne bears the distinction of being one of the four original members of the company, including A1 Christie, Charlie Porter, and a stage carpenter, all of whom have worked on the lot since 1916. “I suppose, like most comediennes, you .are hoping for the day when you’ll be free to play heavy weepies, aren’t you. Miss Lynne?” • “I should say not! I cant understand why any one would want to leave comedy for drama. It makes me so n-e-r-vo-u-s to play drama — I just could run away from myself, I fidget so. Why, comedy is the easiest sort of work; that is, the sort I do. I’m off early — there is hardly a day when I work all day. I have time to go home and sew or I'ead or entertain a few friends; Now today, for instance, I was only resting because I returned at 3 :30 — then Pat called up and said he’d bring you, and mother and I were just dressing, for, you see, we usually dine downtown. Oh, how 1 hate to be caught this way!” Miss Lynne gave the offending negligee a wrathful tweak, tucked one pretty foot, with its new and beautiful pumps and gorgeous buckles, under the other knee and tried to look severely at the seemingly penitent Mr. Dowling. “H-m — I like you that w-ay,” returned the cavalier aux dames. The .setting for Ethel is so wholesome, so like the girl herself, that a brief note must be made of it right here. Ethel believes that u.seful things should be beautiful and the beautiful useful — she’s a disciple of the utilitarian William Morris. Consequently, her home has that restful feeling which rooms give when not overcrowded with bric-a-brac and dust-coliectors of brilliant plumage. The chairs are all comfortable. That's a very surprising thing in itself. They are soft-tufted leather, sprawl lazily on very beautiful rugs in colors which combine grave and gay, and a piano shows its white teeth smilingly, so that one knows intuitively it’s well fed by dainty fingers. She must be a contralto, for her voice is low and rich. She speaks rather deliberately and her eyes, while never restless, are expressively accentuating every word she utters. “Was this love of comedy always in you?” You see, most of the girls merely enter a comedy company as a gateway to better things, so when a young girl is ( Sixty-nine) really in love with comedy and doesn’t i want to rise any higher than being the , best comedienne possible, it rather looks as if that leaning had been a birthday gift. “I knew a lot of girls in the Egan School of Music and Drama, and one | day they told me that they were engaged for a Morosco musical comedy for which . rehearsals were just starting. They advised me to ‘Come along in,’ as I’d enjoy it very much. I had always run three blocks just to peek at an actress when I lived way down in Texas, my native State, so I thought here was a fine op ^ portunity to see lots of players all in one place and get paid for doing it — of course, assuming that Mr. Morosco would take me on. j “1 was engaged without difficulty, and we began eight weeks of rehearsals, i dancing nearly all day long. Really, it was more like going to a dancing school than rehearsing a show. I was so utterly ; worn out with the hardness of it all that l I only stayed with the show three weeks after it actually started, for my nerves ; began to give out and mother didn’t want i me to get sick. I was but a schoolgirl | then, out for a summer vacation. { “Then Jean Hathaway, who had been ^ with Morosco also, met me some months later and .said she was in a vaudeville ^ skit on Pantages and asked me to play a j small part. I was given the engagement, and by the time I’d played over the cir | cuit and returned to Los Angeles, Jean j had started with Mr. Christie. She .suggested my going there for a try-out, and I had a test on Thursday and was promised an answer by the following Saturday, which would give them time to develop the film and project it. On Saturday I found myself wild with joy, for they told me over the 'phone that I had a good test and was engaged for stock. So I’ve stuck ever since, and I hope to stay right by this line of work.” “But you did some propaganda work with Mr. Reban, didn’t you? Runs in my mind I saw you in a picture with him.” “Yes, I did one film for the government with him. Mr. Beban made me up | him.self, for I didn’t know a thing about | that sort of make-up. By using very dark grease-paint and putting little lines here and there on my face, I really made a good Neapolitan, see?” But that negligee wasn’t telling any secrets — and it appeared to hug a willowy slip of a girl like Marie Doro, graceful, just a wee bit bashful. So the biggest impression I got of the girl whose eyes remind one of the china dolls we used to play with, surprisedlooking, guileless, very wide open, was that she is utterly sincere. Lest this leaves a doubt in your mind, remember that Adam wa.sn’t willing to take the blame, that Eve felt very much ashamed and that the talking serpent didn’t give a fig, just so long as she got a peep at unspoiled Ethel Lynne. i Yes — it probably is, if you depend upon ordinary old-style face powder. But not if you made your toilet with wonderful Cold Graanied lowlier Use LA MEDA COLD CREAMED powder in the morning and you are sure of a velvet smooth, powdery fresh appearance all day. 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