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"These interests relaxed me, and my manner became jaunty. I felt myself again. We in pictures let things get too much of a hold on us." Her stream of words, tumbling over each other in echo of rapid thought, still more accented her buoyancy. "Material things, and advancement in one particular field, become too important, ambition too concentrated. And when you let anything be too necessary, it is invariably taken from you. That is for your good ; otherwise, you make an idol of it. Broadening your horizon, you find a world outside, busy at various fascinating' things, and what you had considered so great dwindles in comparison. "Almost any girl taken from obscurity and spot-lighted, highly paid and catered to, would go haywire. Precious few have escaped that stage of distorted viewpoint, unless they had very wise management. "And how is one to know? One accepts the suggestions of executives, of professionals. Soon one is in a whirlwind of do-this and don'tdo-that. With no previous training that would have developed judgment, only exceptional cleverness or intuition could select wisely from all this proffered advice. "It is highly enjoyable, I'll admit. We love acting too much to stop it when we leave the studio ; besides, everything fosters stellar vanity, urges the continuance of the 'act.' We pretend, until it becomes problematical which is real and which sham. "I wanted money, a lot of it. Why? I don't know, except that earning it pleases ego, spending it whets vanity. It adds to that absurd importance. With the inflated estimation of self, the more money you get the more you want, to increase prestige. And it is handy to purchase palaces and such trinkets. "I whined and pleaded for better roles for so long that when finally my temper flared, they were shocked and called me temperamental. I was justified in kicking, but my manner at first was too subservient, then too demanding. Perhaps I wasn't tact ful. When I saw the decrease in my popularity and read the criticisms, I begged them to feature me in good parts, instead of starring me as a dressed dummy. They claimed that I was becoming ungovernable. Well, it was my career that was tilting lopsided. "The deepest hurt, for which I was not to blame, was their calling me temperamental over minor incidents, •like driving across the street to the other lot, instead of walking, when I was in negligee for a scene. I have been game, working when ill, enduring discomforts, as we all do. An actor crabs, but we take it as a matter of course. "I am sorry for having fought over salary. That was unwise. It stamps you as a trouble maker. And none of us is worth, in comparison with other vocations we might follow, half of what we get. I regret going grandiloquent, and being sassy. And I am beaucoap glad that it is all over." The days pass swiftly, encompassing many activities : the newly exacting work, piano, vocal and tapping lessons, golf and swimming, French verbs, considerable reading, moderns of the sophisticated mode. The producers are too busy shining new gleams to repolish scuffed stars. They thought they knew her limitations, and the day of the manikin, depending on ocular appeal, had passed. An agent plugged. In interviews with producers, Olive impressed with her sincerity, her acknowledgment of error, her eagerness for another trial, but with earnest self-confidence. Columbia extended a second opportunity. Suddenly she was working again, so quietly that news of it did not get about for weeks. While the stipend she demanded of Fox, two thousand weekly, was achieved only with her last picture, for the others she had been paid seventeen hundred and fifty dollars a week, which sum she had been drawing during the latter part of her contract. In "The Wedding Ring" her role was that of a young sophisticate, laughing at love. "Half Marriage" and "Gang War" preceded "Dance Hall" for RKO, where she is signed for future engagements. In "Dance Hall" she was featured with Arthur Lake. Defining the crude flapper, one of those brash and smart kids of the fifty-cent dance hall, proved to be immense fun. With the variety which her work