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Make Things Happen
To You
Una M.er\el, who proved what an "ugly duckling" can accomplish, offers sage advice to Miss Average Girl
by Una Merkel
Hollywood, Calif.
Dear Average Girl — Everywhere :
I'VE always wished that I could write a letter that would reach every "average girl" somehow, by some means. All the girls I call "just girls." Girls like me. Now Classic has given me my chance.
Sensationally beautiful girls, girls with brilliant, outstanding personalities, girls born with genius don't need letters from me nor from anyone else, for that matter. But average girls, everyday girls living everyday lives — girls who have no flaming, conspicuous talent, girls who are not breathlessly beautiful, all of you little Janes and Sues and Bettys living in small towns, perhaps, fearing that nothing very grand or glamorous will ever happen to you — well, I do think, kind of, that I have something to say to you.
Because I am such a girl. And I tell you that you can make things happen to vou. I ought to know — because I did'
You don't have to sit back in your little home towns, or hide away in big cities, being meek little mice, nibbling, at drab little experiences, watching other girls become famous actresses and artists, make romantic marriages, have things. You don't have to be front page beauties or geniuses or exceptions in order to have things happen.
There are some people, of course, to whom things just do happen. Without, apparently, any effort on their parts. They don't have to make things happen. / did. I mean, there is, occasionally, some young man like Robert Taylor, so extraordinarily handsome, so gifted, so endowed with everything, that he just becomes a star almost before he has had time to know what is happening to him. Or how it happened. There will be a Garbo, with a personality like a splendid sword, so strong, so
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Meet one of the happiest family groups in these parts -r Una Merkel, her aviation-engineer husband, Ronald Burla, and her parents. Hollywood, we'll have you know, is profoundly proud of Una
forceful, so unique in a world where most of us are pretty commonplace, that her personality carves its own predestined way.
Great beauties do seem to be their own reward, if you know what I mean. But don't let them discourage you. For I will say, confidentially, that their "rewards" do not seem to be as lasting as the rewards of girls like you and me, who haven't great beauty or great anything to work for us — but have to do all the work ourselves. I knew a great many sensationally beautiful girls when I was on the stage in New York. I don't even remember their names today. And neither does anyone else. I also knew Helen Hayes and — see what I mean?
Oh, I know what you may be thinking {Continued on page 66]