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S7
Nine Oclock Girl
of natural, girlish girls that has already threatof the hey-hey sorority.
Gebhart
mother and to gratify her wish, Marino Pomares gave up his business hack East and placed himself, alter being the breadwinner, in the outwardly nebulous position of a movie actress' father.
Outwardly, I say, for he is still the head of the family. All things pass before his judgment.
A robust constitution being necessary, if she is to endure the strain of long hours and the tension of emotional work and not develop nerves, her health is guarded. When she is working, the rule is a nine thirty bedtime, unless the occasion he a very special one, such as an important premiere at which it is politic for her to be seen. As many spare hours as possible are spent swimming or ' golfing with her father. She is not permitted to drive, for fear of accident. Fresh air, exercise, sensible food — she has displaced those pounds which for a time threatened a too-ample upholstery — and study are included in her program.
Parties are rare. Only once, with the German Prince Ferdinand, was she allowed to go out in the evening with a man unchaperoned.
"Of course, I must have a chaperon." It required effort to divest my face of its unconscious where-have-Iheardthat -word -be fore expression. "It isn't that my father doesn't trust the hoys — they are all very nice — but they speed, and he is afraid of an automohile accident."
So that when Harry Crocker, or another swain, takes Anita to the theater, to Catalina, anywhere, Mr. or Mrs. Pomares accompanies them. The hoys say they like the arrangement. Her parents are jolly good fun. Perhaps, too, the youths are fed up with the flappers who "know life," with all its picot edges, and find this experience novel and refreshing. Whatever their personal reactions to the archaic custom, Anita is no wallflower when she attends social affairs. Papa or no papa, the hoys hang around.
Anita's earnestness, her avidity for work, belittle my poor vocabulary. Every actress has an in
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Anita's great concerns are career and health, so daily exercise and early bedtime are two fixed rules.
Papa or Mamma Pomares
chaperons Anita when she
goes places, and the kid
brother has his innings, too.
tensity of application to duty that any business man might well wish his secretary possessed. A girl who lacks this capacity for work would stand small chance in the scratching, pulling, fighting competition of I folly wood, where an ingenue grows on every rosebush.
Anita's absorption, h o w e v e r . shames all other.-. It amounts to a happy obsession. From the first it has been work. study, learn ; into this routine she has poured all her vital Spanish energy, all her French vivacity, all her Irish imagination.
Until she acquired ease of manner on the set. the next day's scenes were rehearsed minutely by the family at home each evening. Papa Pomares might be hero or villain — I dare say at times he was none too sure! — and her mother, bewildered, was the cast, individually and collectively: sometimes, one or the other even had to he a prop. Anita went through her scenes until she had Continued on page 105