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How One Girl Built Up a Fan Club
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The president, despite her bubbling enthusiasm, is a businesslike young woman. Her brown hair is cut in a bob, her blue eyes meet yours frankly, and when she smiles, which is often, there are dimples. But she has no ambition to become a motion-picture actress herself. "Mercy, no !" she assures one. "I don't think I have any talent in that direction at all !"
She has never seen Miss Talmadge "in person." The noted Norma is known to her only through the medium of pictures, and through the dispatch of one autographed photograph and two congratulatory telegrams from the Talmadge studios. That has been the sole reward of nearly two years' constant labor on her part, and the part of two or three other members of the fan club who often help her with the burden of her mail.
The purpose of the organization, according to Miss Riquer, is "to band together all sincere motion-picture fans, particularly admirers of 'Our Norma,' to give the stars an opportunity to come into a more intimate relationship with their fans, and to boost the better films."
The ambition of the members, she says, is "to build up the largest fan club in the world, and in so doing, to
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Norma Talmadge was the inspiration and guiding spirit of the club.
make others happy, the stars proud of us, and to be worthy of our leader in spirit, Norma Talmadge."
Miss Riquer says her admiration has dated back to childhood days. "My affection for Miss Talmadge began with that burning adoration