Photoplay (Jan - Jun 1943)

TTT TTT TTTT TTTTT &%&£#& i t make again... In which we make five Hollywood stars "sing"i.e., speak up about their slip-ups ^peiut, /fci&iute, Looking back over my past I regret that I missed many of the normal activities and joys of youth. When I see the things young people do, the fun girls of eighteen, nineteen, twenty, have at barbecue parties, sleigh rides, dances, I can't help envying them. In my younger days I was shy and afraid of people my own age. I hardly ever associated with them, didn't go to parties, movies, dances with them, but stayed home reading heavy books. My companions were older people — much older than I. Not all the good books in the world, not all the knowledge one can gain from them, can compensate for the lack of these usual diversions in a girl's life. £!p**f &*A*pPt</ The mistake I'll never make again (I hope!) is going off the deep end of enthusiasm for a person with no appreciation of courtesy. Not very long ago, a mutual friend of my husband's and mine asked us to be nice to a girl who shall be nameless. We should have known better when the secretary rather than the girl herself called to announce her arrival in town. But we went ahead nevertheless. When we did see her we gave her the advice she asked for — mind you, she asked for the advice. She was discouraged. We tried to buck her up and we arranged for her to have a screen test. However, tests are expensive for any studio and they are never made sight unseen. We asked her to come to the I missed them and they have left a void in my heart. Today, I still long for those silly and wonderful things girls in their teens do. In some ways studio on a certain day. Her secretary called to say she could not make it that day, but would the next. When she arrived the next day, I had a fa I feel ten years older. The responsibility of coping with the right scripts, with complicated salary matters and the thousand and one big and small things connected with a career in motion pictures make a girl prematurely old. A slight mistake may have serious, even disastrous consequences. But in other ways I haven't grown up at all, I suppose, and I'd like to cut up with young girls and share in their fun. After all, one is young only once and parties and dates and dances, sleigh rides, picnics, camping, are an invaluable part of youth. I didn't have them — a mistake I wouldn't want to make again. mous cameraman and a famous director there to interview her. "Where am I to make the test?" she asked. We explained that tests were not made without an interview first. "Is that the reason you dragged me all the way out here — just for a silly interview?" she said, and walked off the set. Helping people with common decency who are courteous enough to appreciate what you do for them is a pleasure. It's more fun for me to give a person a boost than for the person who receive; the boost. But I'm careful from now "on. Phil and I will only help those who really want and need our help. 46 photoplay combined with movie mirror -WTJ