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The stars simply can't see their own faults and eccentricities, whether good, bad, or just funny.
By Muriel Babcock
Joan Crawford can't resist reading everything
she can find concerning herself, even to save
herself unhappiness.
WHY," asked Joan Crawford, her voice shaking, "do they write such tilings about me? They say I'm twenty-eight years old and every one knows I'm just twenty-three. They say — well, they say anything and everything they can think of."
The woman writer to whom Joan was talking, a writer who has known Joan for y'ars and y'ars and who takes time off regularly to hear the ( raw ford soul unburdened, suggested quite philosophically :
"They just do, you know. But if you didn't read everything printed about you, you wouldn't get so upset. You take some one else's opinion of yourself rather than your own. Why don't you take a month off, refuse to read a single story about yourself (luring that time and sec if you can't form a detached viewpoint? You'd be lots happier."
Joan thought this a splendid idea. "I will," she said; "I'll do just that. I won't read a solitary item about myself for thirty days. 1 won't even look at a magazine."
Clara Bow's blind spot is her inability to judge people.
John Barrymore totally lacks judgment of his personal appearance.
The conversation progressed to other topics. Thirty minutes later, as the two walked out of the studio together, they passed a magazine stand. Joan looked, paused, and bought nine movie magazines.
Every star has a blind spot in his or her life — every one of them is unconsciously blind to some very real eccentricity, foible, or fault that is glaringly apparent to every one but himself. And a star may be able to stand before a mirror and see all his freckles or the crook of his nose, hut when it comes to his particular eccentricity, it is just as if he wore rose-colored glasses.
In Joan's case a passion for self-improvement drives her to read and to weigh, to take with utmost serious