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What I Like and
A FRESH MAN in high school was talking, and she was regarding her nose in the mirror with gloomy distaste. "It must be wonderful to be a movie star and know that everything about you is absolutely right," she said.
"What do you mean 'absolutely right?' " I asked.
"Well, my goodness!" she snapped. "If millions of people go to see you, I guess you have to be pretty good, don't you? And I guess if you know that millions of people like you just the way you are it gives you a lot of self-confidence, doesn't it? I mean, on account of all those people liking you, you have no kick coming, have you? I mean, you like yourself just the way you are, don't you?"
She turned back to the mirror.
"The thing I don't like about myself," she continued, "is my nose. How do you think I'd look if it was straight instead of turned up? And I don't like my hair. Would you have it bleached, if you were me? Or what would you do? And another thing, I hate the way I get all red and embar
Imagine that! Neil Hamilton doesn't like his smile! The ladies, however, go for it in a big way! And we'll bet Neil has no fault to find with the way his daughter Patricia laughs
The lovely Virginia Bruce has been called Hollywood's most beautiful woman. Yet, she is dissatisfied because she doesn't like her chin. She considers her eyes her best facial feature
Douglass Montgomery won't tell his dislikes. Says if he doesn't mention his bad points, maybe others won't notice them. But for a man that's not conceited, he has a long list of likes!
rassed when I talk to a stranger."
"I think I'll prove to you that you're not one bit different from a lot of actors and actresses." I grinned at her. " I think I'll go out and prove that many of the famous people of the screen have likes and dislikes about themselves just as lively as yours."
And so I sallied forth to ask two difficult questions of the famous, because a little high school girl dislikes herself so thoroughly.
"What do you like best about yourself, and what do you like least about yourself— on the screen and off?" were to be my questions.
The first person I called on was Virginia Bruce. After a good deal of hard thought, she decided that she likes her even disposition and that she does not like her inferiority complex in the presence of people of high intelligence. On the screen she likes her chin the least and her eyes the most.
Lee Tracy, dashing back and forth on the set between me and the camera, took two hours to answer these questions, due partly to the fact that he had to answer them
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