Pictures and the Picturegoer (Jan-Dec 1924)

SEPTEMBER 1924 Pict\jre s and Picture poer 47 GLORIA (Continued from page 44). can't bear to have any bitter feeling against anyone in the studio." I murmured a polite acquiescence, but I couldn't help thinking of certain stories I had heard about Gloria and Pola Negri in the early days of the latter's sojourn in America. However. . . ! I turned the conversation swiftly. " Can you tell me why you are in England, or is it a professional secret? Has it anything to do with your mysterious statement that the adjectives must go?" " Well, it is partly a secret," said Gloria, " and partly a holiday, it is several years since I was in your England before. I wanted to see its pretty, soft countryside again. I always think it is like a garden, rather a wet, cold garden, but oh, so lovely, so quaint and peaceful. And I like to see your British girls, too, to watch the graceful way they move and try to study their individuality." "Their individuality?" I asked. " Yes," she said. " I'm a thought reader, you know. I can see souls in faces. I have always been told that I am psychic, but don't let's talk about that. It's too serious to me to be taken lightly." She paused, and her eyes softened strangely. Then there came out in a sudden impetuous rush the thought that had been at the back of her mind all the time. " I miss my little daughter," she said, " I miss her dreadfully : and my little boy too, my adopted boy you know. I thought he would be such nice company for ' little Gloria. When I am really rich I am going to adopt five or six. I lovcjto have children all around me. I love to study them and bring them up in my own way. I believe in them living a home life, and never being brought at all into he glare of publicity until they are old enough to know whether they want it or not. I never let the magazines have pictures of little Gloria, though she is really a beauty. And I owe her a great deal. She has taught me how to be an actress. She has perfected a training which was incomplete before. I was too hard before Gloria came, too cynical, and much too cold. Now I seem to have a bigger range of emotions altogether, to feel more deeply, and to be able to express those feelings with more sincerity and power. Some day I hope to transfer all my adjectives to little Gloria. She's lovely enough, anyway. As for myself — " " I suppose you want to be an interpreter of really dramatic roles?" " I'm going to be," she said with determination, " and mind none of those adjectives creep into anything you write about me in future." But as you see, I've managed to get them in spite of her. Edyth Elland. f i : Jin Seer® YY/ITH all the sweet fragrance of ** a Persian garden, Ven-Yusa 'Rose' the Oriental cream brings a new kind of charm and beauty to your skin and complexion. Ven-Yusa ' Rose * is non-greasy and exquisitely refined. It imparts a new purity to the skin by giving it a deep-reaching Oxygen bath, and it has also rare tonic properties that put new life into the tissues. The effect is fascinatingly delightful and most refreshing. Each jar is sealed hermetically with a wax layer which preserves the purity and freshness of this rare cream. The 'Rose* jar is distinguished by a quaintlydesigned Oriental label and a dainty transparent silky wrapping — just as sold in far Eastern bazaars. In opal jars 1/3 of all chemists and perfumers, or post free same price, direct from C. E. Fulford, Ltd Leeds 4 A DAINTY JAR FREE. If you send name and address, 3d. in stamps (for packing and postage) and mention the Sept. " PicturcgocT," C. E. Fulford, Ltd.. Leeds, will send sample jar of Ven-Yusa ' Rose' by return. N-YtaSL Oriental Rose Cream