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Pictures and P'cfrjrepoer
FEBRUARY 1925
This is an era of new stars, rising triumphant from the motion picture ranks. Scores of them will grace the doming films of 1925, challenging the supremacy of the older favourites, and amongst them, scintillating as brilliantly as any, Margaret Livingston takes prominent place.
An unusual type, Margaret — exceptionally pretty and attractive beyond the average. Red hair, thick and lustrous, frames a piquant, interesting face. When she talks, flavouring her English with slang, there is an amazing
Oval: A scene from Follies Girl."
Tke Follies Girl
Margaret Livingston answers to that name, because
it was in the title role of that film she first became a
star.
air of life and vitality about her that almost seems to magnetise one to admiration. In America she is known to the public as " The Follies Girl," because it was in the title role of this film that she first came into the limelight.
IWIargaret's stardom has been won through the medium of hard work and perseverance, for despite the breezy outward appearance, she has quite a talent for real hard work. She was born in Salt Lake City about twenty-three years ago, and in 1919 she came to Los Angeles with several short stories and a published novelette to her credit.
On the strength of these she applied for and obtained a job as " title expert," at one of the leading studios, but she didn't hold it for long. A girl of her type was needed for the film Within the Cup, and she doffed her laboratory apron and stepped into the part.
Margaret's last film before she became a star was Her Marriage Vow, in which she played with Monte Blue. She has also played in Wandering Husbands with Lila Lee and James Kirkwood, and in Divorce with John Bowers.
E. E. Barrett.
Three characteristic studies of Margaret Livingston, shoiving her extreme mobility of expression.