Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1930)

Photoplay Magazine for April, 1930 II7 She Wanted to Paint [ CONTINUED FROM PACE 37 ] eagerly as any fan in Peoria or Sioux Falls. She likes Ronald Colman best of any man on the screen. When she finishes "Young Man of Manhattan" she will go to Hollywood for one picture. She's thrilled about her first trip to the film capital — but not ga-ga. Her attitude about that is like her attitude about all things — intelligent, alert, eager. She has always hated having her picture taken because she doesn't think she photographs well. Yet she screens like a million dollars. WHEN she started out on the stage, she used to worry because her voice sounded squeaky in emotional scenes. Today Paramount considers hers one of their most alluring voices and critics praise her rich, full tones. She learned to use her voice by dint of hard work. She grew to be the actress that she is in the same manner. And she thinks that she can learn to be an even better actress. Her being on the stage at all was an accident. She meant to be a painter and studied at the New York School of Applied Arts. She came to this country from Paris when her father got an offer from a New York bank. His name was Chauchoin, but Claudette took her mother's name when she went on the stage. When she was eighteen, someone jokingly offered her a bit in "The Wild Westcotts." She did well and discovered that the theater meant more to her than the painter's canvas. Fibbing about the extent of her experience, she next got the lead in "The Marionette Man" with Ulrich Haupt. It was Haupt, now an outstanding figure in the talkies himself, who taught her how to use her voice. After the "Marionette Man" she appeared in a number of stage productions and became a Broadway star. One of her most sensational hits was scored in "The Barker" in the part that Dorothy Mackaill played on the screen. Her first picture was a silent film called "For the Love of Mike," and she thought she was so bad in it that her screen career was ended before it had begun. Then came "The Hole in the Wall" and "The Lady Lies," phonoplays which definitely established her as one of the best bets of the new era of moving pictures. Paramount rewarded her with the lead opposite Chevalier in "The Big Pond." She and Chevalier had a grand time chattering in French and she thinks he's charming. She is crazy about her husband, but she doesn't believe in being a jealous wife. They were secretly married when they played together in "The Barker" in London. It was one of those romances of the theater that people talk about. They do happen. TX7HEN Miss Colbert and Mr. Foster came ** back to America their marriage was still a secret and only three people were in on it. Neither of them believes that a husband and wife should have to share relatives, so Claudette lives with her mother and he has his own apartment. They stay home a great deal and are never seen at night clubs. He is shy and quiet, while she has all the animation of the French girl. She has a great sense of humor and people characterize her as a "regular guy." Her sane, amused slant keeps her from taking herself too seriously. But she has too much ambition and too much real love of the theater to treat her career as a joke. At the ripe old age of twenty-three, she has been for several years one of the outstanding figures of the New York stage. She will go even further because — she is intelligent and has no delusions of grandeur; she doesn't know what it means to be afraid of having a picture "stolen" from her. OES For Sunnytime Wear Haven't you longed for just this sort of footwear?... Shoes which not only impart to a woman's feet distinction, luxury and ease but bring to them the flattering tribute of envy.. .Such are the new Foot Saver fashions for Spring. Their famous patented inbuilt construction is a very private matter — a charming secret between yourself and your grateful arches and ankles. ..For the world little suspects the comforting presence of the feature and sees only the classic beauty of the style. Let us send you this New Style Portfolio! A fascinating exhibition of the new Foot Saver fashions . . . Cleverly reproduced in our new Spring booklet .. .Your return of the coupon below will bring you a copy without charge. THE JULIAN & KOKENGE CO., 420 East 4th Street, Cincinnati, O. Please send me, without charge, your Portfolio of Footwear Fashions. Name Address— Men's Foot Saver Shoes made by the Commonwealth Shoe and teather Co Whitman, Mass., and Slater Shoe Company, ttd., Montreal, Canada When you write to advertisers please mention PIIOTOPLAY MAGAZINE.