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A fascinating new kind of interview in which Jean Arthur answers questions truthfully —
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Leave it to Photoplay to find a new way to make those stubborn stars talk! Remember the hilarious days when you used to play the old game of Truth and Consequences? Someone asked you any question in the world, usually as personal as possible, and you had to answer with absolute truth or take the consequences devised by the questioner. Knowing Jean Arthur's weakness for fun, as well as her steadfast refusal to talk about personal matters, Photoplay's Katharine Hartley dared Jean to play the new version of this favorite old game. Jean agreed and out of fifty-four of the most impertinent questions you'll ever read, she failed to answer only six. So six times she had to take the consequences devised by Photoplay — and what consequences! They're all on the opposite page, each and every penalty there verified by a certified public accountant to be the real Jean Arthur
TRUTH J
WITH
JEAN ARTHUR
1. (Q) If i 00% is perfect, how do you rate
yourself as an actress? (A) 25'; of what I'd like to be.
2. (Q) What is your honest reaction to auto
graph hounds? (A) I realize autograph hounds are important to an actor's career, for they show her popularity with the public. I wish I could honestly feel as the late Will Rogers did — that the only thing to get bothered about autograph hounds is when they stop asking for autographs. But I can't — not honestly — for I'm easily embarrassed and I always feel that most of the autograph hounds are not interested in getting my particular autograph, but merely in adding to their collections. And sometimes when I'm with other persons who aren't in pictures, I feel it's bad manners on my part to delay them by keeping them dangling around while I sign my name.
3. (Q) Are you sorry you do not have chil
dren? (A) Yes, I'm sorry I haven't five.
4. (Q) Do you think you would make a good
mother? (A) I don't know whether I would make a good mother or not — but I do know that I would take motherhood very seriously. I personally feel children should be treated like grown-ups— with tact, consideration, understanding, sympathy and love, and I'd have an awfully good time playing with them.
5. (Q) If you had your choice of selecting your
own face and figure from a group of well-known female personalities, whom would you most rather resemble? (A) I can't decide between Katharine Cornell and Garbo.
6. (Q) In what way have you followed a for
tune teller's advice? (A) I've never followed a fortune teller's! advice for the simple reason I don't | believe in them. Anyway, fortune tellers rarely give actual advice. They usually prophesy regarding the future (Continued on page 72)