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SHOW
GIRL
SOCIAL LEADER
By Adela Rogers St. Johns
Special photographs by Russell Ball
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TASHMAN, that is what they call her in Hollywood. La Tashman.
A very little word, but in history it has rocked empires, as you may remember. No adjective can quite take the place of a mere article which at once implies "one and only."
There is something picturesque and vital and piquant about that single word. Lilyan Tashman merits it. She is picturesque and vital and piquant.
To attempt to whitewash Lil into the press agent's conception of what he hopes the public will think about his star would be about as sensible as trying to convince folks that Mary Garden believes storks bring babies.
Not that Miss Tashman is a vampire or a baby bandit or anything like that.
But she is most decidedly a woman of the world — wise, a trifle cynical, deeply sentimental, and invariably amusing. Her brittle wit wouldn't fit into the Elsie Dinsmore books and her philosophy is that of the Broadway show girl who knows how life can hurt you, unless you are well armored and well armed.
*~pHERE are those in Hollywood who still regard ■*■ La Tashman with annoyance and irritation; who consider her enormous success on the screen as proof positive that there is no justice, and who feel sure that her impudence and unquestionable talent will come to a bad end.
That is the inevitable result of the defeat they were forced to accept at Tashman's elegantly manicured and daintily beringed hands.
On the other hand there are a large number of wellknown and well-connected Hollywood people who take off their hats to Tashman for her wit and courage and whose support gains her the title of one of our most brilliant hostesses.
For there can be no doubt that La Tashman defeated
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LILYAN TASHMAN — when she first came to Hollywood, with her
philosophy of a Broadway show girl who knows how life can
hurt you, unless you are well armored and well armed.
Hollywood in open combat. And the defeat was decisive.
It happened like this:
Lilyan Tashman. one of the best of the real Follies girls, descended upon Hollywood some years back. She arrived at a time when Hollywood was undergoing one of its inevitable waves. of virtue, resultant upon some too notorious scandal.
TT is always well to remember that Hollywood is no ■* worse and no better, morally, than any other place. It is only more dramatic. Being a colony composed of actors, dramatists, showmen, there is an invariably showy quality to its occasional upsets, whose duplicates take place in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and New Orleans without being sufficiently colorful to make the front page. Also, those cast in the leading roles are those whom the public pays good money to see perform imaginary scenes upon the silversheet and naturally the public wants to know every slightest move they make off of it.
Hollywood pays the usual price of fame by having its private life under a scrutiny which no group of people could endure without some few unsavory
The Real Story of Lilyan Tashman, Broadway Beauty
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