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Polly of the Laughs
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By Constance Severance
5 HE was away and away in East Africa, at Durban, when the Keystone cable offering her a lung-term contract came. Distance lent no enchantment to the view — Mi^s Polly Moran voted for a close-up ; and she packed her trunks while the crashing of the cable key still echoed, and sped for i OS Angeles on the other side of the world. That was a year ago. Since then pretty much the whole of North America has gled and galed with laughter at her comedy work as screened under the direction of Mack Sennett. For she is irresistible.
The movie-going public is wont to think of Pollv Moran as an Englishwoman, which is wrong. She is an American of the Americans, though almost as much at home in South Africa and Europe as here. Her mother's arms cradled her first on the ovenish brink of Death Valley, that deep basin
of heat that lies like a curse between the Panamints and the Funerals ; and there is something of the wideness of the Desert in her eyes, and of the Wastes' inscrutable calm.
Odd then, think you. that comedy and not tragedy should be her photo-forte Did you know that the greatest fun-makers wear still countenances bewhile?
Delicious is the humor of Polly Moran on stage ; dainty and delightsome is her personality off it. Perhaps the drear aridness of her birthplace set a longing in her soul for wealth of flowers: her garden, which with her own hands she tends, enfolds her private life with fragrance. As a side-light on character, one who is privileged to visit her in her California home notes that she is immensely popular with her parents, who live with her.
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