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LOVE AND CO.
In other words, Doris May and her new contract, which gives the world a chance to fall in love with her by proxy.
By JOAN JORDAN
SHE is a Poster Girl. \ on had her portrait, painted by Harrison Fisher or Henry Hutt, above your desk at College.
Her Face is the Shape of a Heart and her Mouth is the S'lape of a Kiss.
She is The Girl you loved so madly, so Divinely, so Decently, when she was the Queen of the Campus.
You can find pages and pagesdevoted to descriptions of hei in any of Robert W. Chambers' best sellers — and whatever you may think of Mr. Chambers' novels, his Heroines are adorable beyond belief.
Doris May is — Just Girl.
She isn't marvellously beautiful, or exotic, or perfect.
She's Pretty.
She has soft, glinting brown hair. Big soft brown eyes. Dimples. Tiny Ankles. Golden freckles dusted across her pert little nose.
More than any of the Screen Girls I have met, she completely represents the American Girl that men just naturally fall in love with. You 'J never want to be a brother to her and IM bet no man has ever offere. her that supreme proof of indifference — his friendship.
Yet she's the sort of a girl who would be safe in a White Slave De-..
Photography bv Melbf urne Spur.
-newas married only a few months ego to Wallace MacDonald. and they live in a htde Hollywood bungalow and are ideally happy. And she's only nine'een and has her own company. Isn't that a real modern fairy taie ?
She's the sort of a girl with whom you want to sit in the hammock — not one of those new hammocks that l lie whole family can use — from baby who has it done up for a crib to granddad who uses it for an invalid chair — but a Regular Hammock built for Two, and a guitar.
She is a snapshot of a man's Second Love.
Now I don't pretend to know why men fall in love.
I don't pretend that Doris May is any different than a
mndred other girls — nor half as pretty as some other
Mo\ ie Queens. Nor half as clever as many scenario writers.
Put, in my humble opinion, the fact remains that she is
The Kind of a Girl Men Fall in Love With.
And now she is going to be a star all by herself, a real star, and all the men in America can have the fun of falling in love with her by proxy.
Everybody remembers Doris best I think as a co-star with Douglas MacLean in " 233-2 Hours Leave" and a series of pictures that followed it. Her opportunities in these were not great, but she furnished the love element to the satisfaction of all, and she exhibited several Hashes of real comedy genius.
Now I am going to digress from Doris for a minute, and let you look behind the scenes of Motion Picture Production and witness a very human drama — the kind of a business drama that America is usually fascinated by, such as George M. Cohan has hit us with so many times.
A great many people regretted the split-up of MacLean and May. A good many failed to understand it. Nobody knows just what happened — or even if anything happened — but anyway Douglas MacLean remained with Ince and Mi-s May did not.
Now down on the Ince lot was a young man v. 1 o acted for the great producer as director-in-chief of publicity, exploitation and advertising. He was a young gent with all the punch, push and pep of a G. M. C. hero. He began to figure, and as he saw MacLean gaining in pooularity and (Continued nn page 104)
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