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Photoplay Magazine
screen and a man in the next seat sat up abruptly and said quite audibly:
"Good heavens, what a wonderful blonde!"
So the intelligent reader has tumbled to the fact ere this, that it wasn't her voice that has brought fame to golden haired Wanda Pettit.
And it wasn't because Maestro Flo Ziegfeld didn't see her that the fair Wanda didn't land in the Follies, because he did see her and he did try to induce her to join his aggregation of beauteous femininity. Unfortunately, the writer forgot his shorthand while the fair interviewee was telling about it, and the exact reason isn't clear, but perhaps it was because she had a voice. Yes, that must have been the reason.
Connoisseurs in flapperology, other than Mr. Ziegfeld, came into visual contact with the little princess from Seattle and it was no time before all of her waking moments, not devoted to voice culture, were spent in posing for artists. As a consequence her face has lightened the pages of nearly
Aspiring to the concert stage Wanda
went to New York to perfect her
voice. She became a famous artist's
model and then — the movies.
all of the well-known magazines at some time or other.
So it isn't anything extraordinary that the wonderfi.1 Wanda should have eventually landed in Cinemania where beauty is ever acclaimed and a throne is quickly thrown together for the newest in feminine loveliness.
"I suppose it was inevitable that I should become a screen actress," confided Miss Pettit to the interviewer, 'though if it's not heresy, I'd like to say that a musical career appealed more strongly to me. Ever since I was a child I have been before the public, either as an accompanist for my brother who was a concert violinist, a church organist or as a vocalist. I have played accompaniments since I was nine years old.
"When I first reached New York to perfect my voice, a high soprano, I was still thinking of a career on the concert stage. But it wasn't very long before I arrived at (Continued on page 129)