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have one blue and one green-brown eye."
" They're staring you straight in the face," she said, " you can see for yourself."
I did. She had.
" Anything else you'd like to know?" she went on. " I've got a perfectly good nose, too, my very own. I know it's a bit small and funny, but I'm not going to have it altered, although my
Above : Colleen and a companion listen in.
Right : She likes a small close-fitting hat because it keeps her hair tidy.
Below :
With John
McCormick
in " The
Huntress."
OCTOBER 1924
friend Helen Ferguson is always urging me to do so. Her new nose is a great success," she added, laughing.
" I have a great admiration for your friend, but I don't wish to speak about her at the moment. I want to talk about — "
"John McCormick?" asked Colleen mischievously.
" Mrs. John McCormick," I said with firmness.
" Oh, you can't," said Colleen, " she has so little past history to talk about. But I'll tell you about Kathleen Morrison if you like."
" Who's Kathleen Morrison anyhow?" I asked.
" Mrs. John McCormick," said Colleen.
Oh yes ! She's Irish all right !
" You see I'm half Scotch and half Irish," she explained. " That's where I got my mixture of names. But I think Colleen Moore's better for a screen player, don't you?"
" You are the one and only," I murmured politely.
" KTo I'm not at all. I've got a brother Cleve who's going to be a perfectly wonderful moving picture actor before he has finished. Johnny has promised to give him a leading part with me some day. He's just out of college you know, and we found him a small part in my film The Perfect Flapper. He's going to be great."
" I'm sure he is," I said, " but what about his sister who's great already?"
" I don't know anything about great," said Colleen, " I know I'm busy. I've been busy for years. I've been busy ever since I came out of my convent school and graduated from the Detroit Conservatory of Music. Did you know that I was going to be a professional pianist?" she broke off.
Above : An unusual study. Colleen in " The Devil's Claim," a Sessue Hayakawa film.
addresses to an engine that has gone on strike.
John took it away from her and did it — whatever it was. It was thoughtful of him. It left Colleen to my tender mercies. We wandered off to a conveniently adjoining rock and sat down.
" Now which do you want to talk about ?" said Colleen, " my husband or my career?"
" What I really want to ask about," I replied, " is whether you actually