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Photo-Play Journal
Growing Up
Dy HORTENSE SAUNDERS
absence. And all the pretty dresses and fussy aprons had to be scrapped and new ones fixed. And streamer hats had to be abandoned forever. Martha was beyond them.
"And mother has never left me alone for a very long time since that day," Martha says. "She's afraid I might spread out five inches wider or do something dreadful like that. But I tell her not to worn-. Growing five inches in two months was the most original thing I ever did and I'm so proud of it.
"I wish I could have swooped down into pictures in some original fashion, but instead, I followed the beaten path. I started as an artists' model, then took the Ziegfield route and ended up in pictures. Of course I did start right out as a featured player, for my first work was being leading woman for Max Linder in a series of comedies. But I went back on the stage after that, coming back to the screen now and then for a picture and sort of vibrating uncertainly between the two mediums.
"I didn't really consider myself a fixture in
motion pictures until I signed my contract with
Selznick. There is something sort of final
about a contract that gives a settled feeling
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Photos hy White, X. Y.
MARTHA MANSFIELD is growing so fast in the moving picture world that she threatens to beat a growing record she established once before.
Both Martha and her mother swear to the truth of this story. It is a favorite family reminiscence. It seems that several years ago, when Martha was living in Mansfield, Ohio, and was much more interested in paper dolls than in paper reviews, Martha's mother left her in the care of a relative and went away for a two months' visit.
But, after the fashion of careful mothers, before her departure she put Martha's clothes in shape. She made Martha several new gingham frocks and some fussy little aprons with bow ties of chambray in the back and she purchased for little Martha some new hats ■ — a dark serviceable one for every day and one with pink streamers and rosebuds for Sunday. And she departed for her visit feeling that she had done her duty by her daughter — as well she might.
Two months later, when the mother returned, she was greeted by an overgrown daughter wearing outgrown clothes. Instead of the round, chubby child she had kissed goodbye two months before was a tall creature that seemed to be all elbows and knees — this was her own little Martha, plus five inches. For Martha had seized this opportunity for expansion and had shot up nearly half a foot in her mother's