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Carmel Myers interviewed Mona Gardner just before the latter set off for a trip around the world.
DO you think picture stars are the only ones who effect changes of personality and such ?
No, sir ; here is a living example, before our very eves, in the person of ' Miss Myrtle Gebhart !
Take your bow, Myrtle, and step upon the platform— slowly, slowly, my dear — turn around that we .may all witness the birth of the new !
Two years ago, when I last saw you, you sported a much-marceled head of hair. Your dress wasn't so spiffy, and you were overweight, Myrtle. Heaven help us, you were. What's that you say ? You have been ill ? Nervous breakdown ? Overwork and therefore loss of weight?
Don't apologize, my dear, when loss of weight is mentioned. Boast, strut, brag, instead. And anyway, what about that tiny hat you have got
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tipped over one eye exposing a nude ear, and what about those two brazen sideburns ? How do you account for them? Don't talk to me — that's a new personality ! That flapperish black-velvet suit which makes you look even slimmer — don't tell me differently — that's a new personality !
Having thus proclaimed myself, we proceed to lamb chops and pineapple. Myrtle and I, in true interviewer and viewee fashion, at the Montmartre. I'll let her take all the quotation marks upon herself from now on.
"I was born in Texas, and studied to become a concert pianist. One fact has no bearing on the other, but the fact that my family met with reverses did have a bearing on my going to Chicago and taking a business course there. I edited a column in the Chicago Herald-Examiner called 'The Soldier's Friend,' which consisted of questions and answers. I supplied the answers. This lasted about six weeks. After I had gathered together my courage and one hundred dollars, I came to Los Angeles. The courage lasted, but I cannot say as much for the one hundred dollars. It simply melted away. Luckily, I got a job as a publicity writer at a small studio where they were producing Bible pictures. For three weeks I received fifty dollars weekly. Then I was again job-hunting. The Bible business wasn't going over so well.
"During this period of anxiety, I suffered horribly from an emotional complex. I used to burst into tears at the slightest
Carmel Myers is not a large person, though this picture makes her appear so, by comparison with Myrtle Gebhart.