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That was a good story the press-agent told y^
of June Caprice's camera debut — only [[
It Never Happened !
EVERYBODY has heard the story of June Caprice's entry into pictures. It is an interesting and dramatic story — almost as wonderful as the Cinderella tale. She was walking home from school in Boston one day, her yellow curls down her back, her rose-bud mouth parted to disclose teeth like little pearls, her eyes shining like stars, all unconscious of her youth and beauty. A motion picture magnate, m Boston on business, was strolling in the same street. He saw the gospel-eyed June. He gave a start, placed his dand on his brow and exclaimed, "Shades of Cleopatra and Helen of Trov!"
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Above Miss Caprice in "Little Mother Hubbard.
He followed her home. He insisted on seeing her mother.
He implored to be allowed to make little June a great moving
picture star — the most famous star in all the screen firmament.
The mother consented with tears, declaring, she would not
stand in the way of her daughter's career.
And June packed up her possessions, went
to New .York with the film magnate and
the following week was making her first
picture, her name in big type in all the
newspapers.
You must admit that it is a good story. The only flaw in it is that it never happened.
June told me the true version of her entry into pictures over the luncheon table the other day. She had motored to the Ritz from the Albert Capallaui Studios at Fort Lee in her smart blue car. She looked dainty and expensive in a dark tailored suit and an adorable tricorn hat of French blue. The curls were tucked up, of course.
Witt Creighton Hale in a scene from " Tbe Love Cheat."
I introduced some delectable /nVo mhto a la Espagnol to June's unspoiled palate and she grew what is known as expansive in a man and confidential in a woman.
"Not only is that story untrue but I am glad that things were not made any too easy for me," she said. "I have no patience with mushroom stars. Girls who are made stars in a week do not last long. The public is not as gullible as is supposed. It knows when an actress has worked long enough and hard enough to deserve stardom.
"This is what happened lo me. With some girls at my school in Boston I sent mj' picture to a contest that had for its object the discovery of a girl who looked like ^lary Pickford. Now almost any girl who is young and
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