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The AMAZING MOTHER
the flesh as powder and lipstick. Her clothes are fashionable and probably expensive, but once Peg gets them on you would never suspect it. Peg is as indifferent to her appeai-ance as a woman can be. My recollection is that she has one more than the requisite number of chins, but I'm not sure.
Frances Marion, the greatest scenario writer who has ever been in Hollywood, says that she would rather talk to Peg Talmadge than any woman she has ever met.
She knows so much. She is without one illusion, and she loves life and people. It is my impression that she is just as interested in their difficulties, sins and disasters as she is in their triumphs and virtues. That interest is terribly keen, terribly alive. You feel it burning in her, for all her habit of sitting very quietly, and talking in a low voice without an awful lot of inflection.
"Boredom," she told Constance one day, when Connie mentioned the growing ennui of some of her friends, "is an admission of mental inferiority. Don't forget that, my girl. No one with half their brain cells working can possibly see and hear and read and do all the interesting things in this world in the number of years allotted to man for his lifetime. People who are bored are simply
All her Life Peg Talmadge has
Stood like a Rock, Fought, Worked,
Sacrificed for her Children
By ADELA ROGERS ST. JOHNS
lacking the mental capacity to understand, the emotional capacity to enjoy. I haven't spanked you in a good many years, but I'd be apt to do it quicker if you started being bored than for any other reason.
GET everything decent you can out of life. If you've got any sportsmanship in your nature you won't want to do anything very wrong. And I'd rather you'd have a little remorse in your old age than a lot of regrets. It's better to say 'I wish I hadn't" and try to even up your score by doing something big and kind for somebody, than to say 'I wish I had' and whine about it."
Nobody ever puts anything over on Peg. Her wise little eyes look straight at you when you are talking and if you talk straight they are inspiring and appreciative. Peg doesn't like dullness, but she can be kind to it. The only thing she won't put up with is pretense. Try to get by with any kind of a bluff, and you will find yourself called in a dry, definite way that leaves you as limp as a last year's dishrag.
As she loves life without finding it necessary to mask it with illusions, so she loves her children without having to look at them through the rose-colored glasses of mother-love. (Coiithuied on page 124)
Peg Talmadge with her daughters, Norma and Constance. With Constance is her husband, Townsend Natcher.
is Gilbert Roland
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