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THE PICTUR&GOtR
FEBRUARY 192)
complacently on, so with allayed, I settled down to fying meal, punctuated wi interesting revelations fro White herself.
What a terrible life y have led ! " I told her. for years I've watched yi hounded to death in a different ways, and each ti you I never get over th that tins time they're real to get you I "
That's rather a compl my convincing acting," Pearl. " Of course, |
the things I have had up ' with were in reality all dreadful when seen studio, instead of on the but all the same, I've ha through a lot of honest-to-goodna that make me shiver myself when I them."
You don't look as though you'd
One of Pearl's
Prize Porkers
from her tnodel
farm.
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most of the time I was in chapter plays I behaved like a prize-fighter in training. Long hours of sleep, gymnastics and horse-back riding every day, sensible food, and not too much of that ; all these things must form a regular part of the serial star's life if she would
keep in trim for her work, and retain her youth and looks as long as possibh j work is a strain, besides being dangerous — you know, my friends often say | proverbial cat's nine lives would have been no use to me ; I needed at least ninet
" And you look as though you enjoyed every one of them !
Indeed, I do; probably because life hasn't always been pleasant for me But from the days when I was a tiny tot, when I would take the ' dares ' that the other kiddies turned down through sheer fright, I have been a fatalist although, perhaps, I shouldn't always have understood the meaning of the word Whal 18 to In-, will be, has been my creed; otherwise, I honestly don't think 1 could have come through at all. But life has given me most of the thingi I longed for ; simply, I'm sure, because I trusted in my destiny.'
Then I'earl described something of her childhood — those magic years whicl should linger in the memory of every man and woman as precious experience which must be treasured because their care-free rapture can never again return Hut not so with Pearl White ! She was one of the unfortunates of who* existence we firsl learned in our fain,' tales, who possessed an unkind, unjus Btep-mother, a selfish, inconsiderate father ; and, to make life still harder, poverty-stricken, thriftless home.
This, a rundown, neglected farm, was situated in the bleak and unlove!