Motion Picture (Aug 1919-Jan 1920)

« IOTION PICTURI MACAZINE Bebe, the Oriental (Con tinned from page 33) Mille has made for me, for I am to have some great roles and I hope to become a really big emotional actress — some day." This young girl comes rightly by her love of dramatic art, for she grew up in a theatrical atmosphere, her father having a stock company in which her mother was the leading woman, and at the age of ten weeks, Bebe made her first appearance on the stage in the comedy, "Jane." At three she had her first speaking role in "The Confederate Spy," and at four played the child Duke of York in "Richard III." At five she came to Los Angeles to play in the repertoire presented by the old Burbank stock company. Her last stage appearance was in "The Squawman," with Lewis Stone, at the age of eight. When this run was over Bebe joined the Selig company to play child leads in pictures. During her stage career, she had the advantage of playing in the dramas of Shakespeare, Maeterlinck, Ibsen and DAnnunzio, which in itself is something of a record. "I was fourteen when I went with the Rolin-Pathe comedies to play opposite Harold Lloyd, and I think this was the best possible training during my 'growing up' years, for comedy has taught me the values of lights and shades of emotional work that I probably would not have gained had I done only serious dramas. I loved it, too ; it was a happy experience, for everyone in the company was so fine and we were like a big family. "Aren't my costumes in this picture wonderful?" exclaimed Bebe, as she kicked off her jeweled sandals and surveyed her pretty bare feet stained pink after the fashion of the East. "I seem to feel the colors — they are so intense — and I wish the camera could catch them. Lots of people have asked me if I was Egyptian; isn't that a joke? I am crazy to visit Egypt and India, and, of course, Spain. Grandmother was born in Castile, Spain, mother was born in South America, while I was born in Dallas, Texas, so you see, I am just a Texan, not an Oriental at all, but I love, love everything Oriental." And the dark eyes; big as dollars, gazed earnestly at the tiger lilies as if finding in their strange beauty a sympathetic response. Bebe Daniels can do other things besides act, for she has made some clever pen and ink sketches that reveal a decided talent, and she showed me her own pretty bedroom cet of ivory which she has decorated with clusters and garlands of roses. She swims like the proverbial duck and bemoans the hard fate that even when she has a vacation from the studio she dare not indulge in this sport, for the midsummer sun has a way of leaving a coat of tan which she cannot hide from the camera, and the Favorite of the King of Babylon cannot have rings of brown showing thru the tissue robes. 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