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Photo by Melbourne Spurr
T-^ ~ ~ ^ ~ T~) ^ I / _ ^ A disclosure of an interesting side of Miss Rich's personality,
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of which perhaps the great majority of her admirers know naught.
By Elza Schallert
THERE are many admirable things about Irene Rich, the actress, the woman, and the mother. But the friends who know her intimately feel that the greatest of these personalities is Irene Rich, the mother.
Certainly, she has two splendid daughters to proudfully distinguish her. Frances is fourteen, and Jane, aged seven.
Meeting the girls would never convince one that therr mother is an actress, nor that their home life has many contacts with the famous people of the screen and stage. Girls reared in a similar atmosphere might so easily absorb the manners and mannerisms of their professional elders to such a degree that their individualities would be clouded by a conglomerate, artificial series of personality impressions. But not Frances and Jane. They are decidedly themselves.
Frances and Jane both attend the Hollywood School for Girls, a private institution, which Milton Sills' daughter and Cecilia De Mille also attend. Frances finishes next June, and a year later, when she will be sixteen, she expects to enter Vassar. Her mother, however, thinks sixteen is too young for a girl to enter college, so she plans on deferring Vassar until Frances is nearly seventeen, and in the intervening period she
plans on taking the two girls and their grandmother to Europe for a year and a half, to give them the cultural advantages of travel, and a couple of semesters at French boarding schools or perhaps in a private pension in some village in Switzerland.
"I want Frances and Jane brought up in a sane, sensible, wholesome manner," their mother recently told me. "I have always worked to that end. It is such a privilege for me to have my own mother with me. She is a great influence for the girls."
Miss Rich isn't going to discourage her daughters from entering pictures in any capacity if they show the proper talent and interest. "If they feel, when they arrive at the age of discretion, the call of the stage or screen, I would be the first to aid them in their ambitions, because if they derived as much joy and inspiration from acting as I do, that is all I would ask."
On account of their school work, Miss Rich doesn't allow the girls to see many pictures, and they both have cried so bitterly over certain parts she has portrayed that it has made her reluctant to encourage the "moviegoing" habit.
And when I asked both girls who their favorite star was, .they didn't say Mary Pickford, but, "Why, mother, of course!"