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Hollywood's BEST GIRL
By Marian Jensen
RUDY VALLEE, the answer to every girl's prayer, chose Mary Brian from all of the Hollywood belles for his attentions while he was in this city. Biff Hoffman, captain of last year's Stanford team, was introduced to practically every woman in the city. He was a hero. When he met Mary Brian he forgot all about heroes and became just a plain man in love with one woman.
Clara Bow, Lupe Velez, Sally O'Neil — all the socalled colorful babies of the movies, have fallen back into line and allowed little sister Mary to go to the head
Mary Brian, Just before she was selected to
play Wendy in "Peter Pan." She was
fifteen — and plain little Mary then.
of the class when celebrities come a-visiting. Even the home-town sheiks are tumbling in her wake, now, with the examples put before them by such famous young men as Richard Dix, Charles Buddy Rogers, Billy Bakewell, and Arthur Lake, as well as the Southern California, the Stanford and —v Berkeley fraternity men.
It is safe to say that Mary Brian is the most popular girl in the city of world popular girls.
Just how did it happen? How has Mary so quietly crept into the front ranks when so short a time ago she was just plain "little Mary," the Wendy of "Peter Pan," who brought no competition to the other feminine headliners?
We decided to ask her about it. "I don't know." She sat like a small child with her legs curled beneath her; her long bob, with its natural wave, flirting with the black velvet bows up on her shoulders. After all, she has youth. She is but twenty. But so are Lupe, Sally and Clara. Sophisticated twenties. While Marxis still in her little-girl twenties.
"It has all come so gradually that I— well, I haven't realized it was coming. It doesn't seem possible, of course, but only four years ago I was going from casting office to casting office and not getting beyond the man behind the window.
"Lonesome! It seemed as though I might as well try to catch a moonbeam as it came through our one-room window as to attempt to find friends in this city. I
used to stand, at . night, at the window of our room, which was in a big white house directly across from the Hollywood Athletic Club and watch the people coming there for dinner and dancing. (Cont. on page 110)
Mary Brian today, the life of every gathering. The background trio numbers Richard Arlen, GaryCooperand James Hall. No, they will not be arrested for parking near a hydrant. This is Hollywood, after all.
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