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May Allison Is Back!
She cherished primadonna aspirations
but the war caused their postponement
and her return to the screen
By Marjorie Manners
This was May Allison's statement of her aims. When reminded of the occurrence the other day, Miss Allison said:
"It never entered my head that I might be considered conceited. I didn't feel that way at all. I merely had a great ignorance of all the difficulties that beset the road to stardom — and a superb faith. I felt also that if I could not be a star in five years — an age to me then — I had better give up. "Recently, I received the dearest note from a girl who stood in the wings with me that evening. She is married now, lives in Freeport, Long Island, and has a couple of babies. "She asked me if I remembered that first evening, and said she couldn't resist writing to remind me of it and to congratulate me." May Allison is now an individual picture star, in the Metro firmament, and I think that note pleased her more than anything she has received since the an
DRESSED in the garb of Vanity, a tall, slender girl of coltish age, with hair the color of molten gold, stood behind the scenes at the opening per formance of Henry Savage's production of "Everywoman."
As the scene shifters scurried about and the other members of the cast nervously conned their lines, or listened assiduously to catch the verdict of the tense audience out in front as to whether "Everywoman" was to be a first night hit or failure, this girl stood merely at attention.
With a superb unconsciousness of the implication of egotism, she remarked calmly, but in the tone of one stating an incontestable fact —
"I shall be a star in five years or I shall leave the stage."
May Allison holding the professional I-am-listening atti tude while Director Harry Franklin describes some action for "The Winning of Beatrice." Standing, with left hand on his pocket book, is Hale Hamilton.
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