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The Open Season for Salamanders
Wanda Hawley will undoubtedly lead a flock of 'em over the screen horizon.
YOU can establish without a shadow of doubt the fact that Theda Bara was the original vampire on the screen; and Mary Fickford the original ingenue. Mary Thurman was the first show-girl, and Marguerite Clark the first sub-deb.
Ladies and gentlemen, we take ever so much pleasure in introducing to you the first and so far only saucy salamander the silver-sheet can boast. Her name's Wanda Hawley and you know her best, perhaps, as the heroine of the Rupert Hughes DeMilied drama "We Can't Have Everything." At the end of the picture. Wanda, you remember, has about everything her little heart desires except a presentation at court. Her ducal consort assured her at the final fade-out that he thought he'd be able to arrange that before very long; and it didn't really matter much; Kedzie probably forgot all about it before dinner. Looking at Miss Hawley, who portrayed Kedzie T/iropp — and she's never had an opportunity to do anything nearly so good since — still, looking at her, we wonder what it is, if anything, that she can't have.
Ah — but appearances are deceitful. Wanda did not come to the screen via the runway at the Midnight Frolic. Florenz Ziegfeld did want her for the Follies; that was really one of the best jobs Wanda ever turned down. But she didn't go into them because — she had a Voice; and in the Follies, you know, a Voice is as superfluous as knitted wristlets for the starving Slovaks. Wanda kept on studying; she'd left the home-town, which happened. to be Seattle. Washington, to come to the City to have it cultivated — the Voice, you know. Most of her time when she wasn't practicing to improve the Gift she spent posing for artists. Her fair face and pretty profile have decorated quite a few covers of the best-known publications, pastelled there by such prominences as Leone Bracker, Lejaren Hiller. et al.
Meanwhile she accepted an offer to understudy one of the stars in "Chin Chin." She was getting along beautifully, when she contracted a sort of laryngitis. And she had to give it up. But Wanda wasn't without a job very long. The movies discovered her, with William Fox as the picture Columbus in
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