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Photoplay Magazine
"Rubye deRemer went into the movies as the heroine of 'The Auction Block" — and she's still in them, acting, as -well as looking beautifu
" Mae Murray was the Nell Brinkley in the Follies, and impersonated Mary Pickford in the movie burlesque She looked so good she got a contract right away ■with Lasky. "
looking girls, must be an institution of a sort. Beauty is the important thing in life, anyway— beauty in everythmg._
I'm from the Follies— and I'm always being misunderstood. I've never told anybody about it before because it's an old line. People think that nothing is required of a Follies girl but beauty —well I worked harder in the Follies than I ever did in my lite Most of the Follies girls are ambitious. Do you think any ot them are content to stick in the chorus all their lives? Some, probably; but not many I know. There is a g.amour about the Follies that you can't deny, especially if you have been m them. The elaborate sets, the beautiful tableaux, the gorgeous costumes —did you ever stop to think that to a beauty-starved girl, one ot the creations she is given to wear means an awful lot.'' 1 can remember when I was just a kid— only about eighteen— and poor, and lonesome, and I used to go to the costumers and wait in a lone seemingly endless line for my costume, and fussed ana frefted while'it was being fitted-but let me tell you that when the opening night came, with that audience out there, and the new songs and the glitter-I was mighty proud to be just a part of it; and that beautiful costume gave me such a feeling of wellbeing as I have not felt since.
I said up there, that I worked hard in the Follies. All of the girls don't work so hard. You see, the whole thing inspired me I mean because the Follies is a sort of material triumph and it seems to me any ambitious girl who's in them must feel immecHate'v that she too must be successful, m a matena way at St Anyway, I felt that. And I accepted Mr. Ziegfeld's offer to appear^in ^he Midnight Frolic as well as the regular show, and then — I thought of pictures. . , , uu
Now, I know one former Follies and F-'oli'^ g'-"! ^ho was wUh them ior five years; and was quite content As she used to say, Quaintly '"Well, you know, every girl would like to be m them aTd be&des, all [he best people come." This gjl had a dan n part, too, while it was always my duty o be as ^ecoratrve as l could But the glitter and the same best people out front every opening night and all nights in between began to^pdl, in other Xrds I got an exaggerated attack of Higher Ambition, ""ome of [he girls'had left the Follies from t™e t^im^^jJS f, into pictures, and made a success m them. I thought 1 couia