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Janet Gaynor saved the slippers she wore in "Seventh Heaven" and she wears them at least once in every film.
Edmund Lowe always wears his student cap from Santa Clara University when he dons his make-up.
Their Good Luck Tokens
By JACK BEVERLY
MOTION picture people have the reputation of being the most cold-blooded, selfish folk in the world.
Yet, when you get to know these people, if you ever really do, you find beneath the selfish callous exteriors that they are quite as sentimental at heart as you or I.
Few of them but have saved some memento from the picture that launched them on a successful career. Mr. Powell himself, I am told, has kept the beret that he wore as the legionary in "Beau Geste," as a kind of talisman and souvenir.
Dick Barthelmess, who has the reputation of being strictly business, is, at heart, one of the most confirmed sentimentalists I know. Not content with one souvenir, he has kept a reminder of each spectacularly successful picture he has made. Going into his dressing room one finds on the walls the Chinaman's cap from "Broken Blossoms," the gun from "Tol'able David" and the boxing gloves he used in "The Patent Leather Kid."
Pola Negri, who was sup
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posed to think of nothing and nobody but herself, had the bedroom suite used in "Passion" shipped all the way to America and used it in her own bedroom as long as she was here. In company with Sue Carol and Nick Stuart, I recently visited the people who bought
her home, and there, in all its splendor, was the Louis XV suite from "Passion." After selling them the house, Pola, as soon as she was settled in Europe, wrote and asked if they would sell her back that suite so she could have it again.
Speaking of Sue, one naturally expects her to be sentimental. Nor is one disappointed. She has kept a little lace shawl she wore in "Soft Cushions," her first picture. And quite little it is, too. Sue played a harem belle.
Betty Compson, whose ca-* reer has been one of ups and downs, whose successes have been almost as numerous as
The business-like Dick Barthelmess is sentimental, too. He saved the old musket you see here that he used in his first big hit, "Tol'able David."