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A Stars Balance Sheet
Virginia Brown Faire has conceived the novel idea of taking stock of her assets and liabilities now and then, a procedure which many of us might well adopt.
By Helen Ogden
SHE shouldn't have been doing anything so serious anyway. One doesn't usually figure up accounts over a charmingly decorated and plenteously encumbered tea table. One munches wee, heart-shaped sandwiches, and cuddles the pet Pom and chatters small talk.
Virginia Brown Faire's eyes were grave, however, and I sensed that the notations springing into black relief under her swiftly moving and emphatic pencil were of moment, and not mere household expenditures.
"I'm balancing. Ever do that? You should. Opens your eyes, to face facts. Now, look, here are my 'books.' "
The paper held two lists, neatly inscribed and partly checked, though opposite . some of the items, there were question marks or blank spaces instead of percentage ratings. After a correction or two— to "Beauty" she had allowed only five per cent, a rating which, after an unbiased and careful appraisal, I decided was an expression of an inferiority complex — and after a bit of juggling, we evolved the following balance sheet. It shows that, though it has taken Virginia six years to make even first base, they have not been years of loss. She has not yet had a really big opportunity, but she has had many valuable experiences, even though some of them have been
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Photo by Carsey
Though beauty and talent may be counted among Miss Faire's assets, she hasn't yet had the good luck to be cast in an unusually successful
picture.
ASSETS
Experience 40%
Beauty and talent 40%
Education 20%
100%
LIABILITIES. Experiences — unpleasant ....30%
No big opportunity 20%
Unknown to Hollywood spotlight 40%
Illness 10%
100%
disheartening.
ADDENDA: ?????
"To explain," she said, "let's begin with the assets. Experience— I have had six years in pictures, doing a little bit of everything. That training should be of value, if I ever get a real chance, under auspicious circumstances.
"Beauty — that's a requisite. I used to think I was quite devastating. I won a beauty contest, you know. Which means less than nothing in Hollywood. And I get so tired of looking at my own face that it often seems to me more of a liability than an asset. You weren't being merely polite when you put that valuation on, were 3'ou?" A worried frown furrowed her brow. "Really mean I'm passably pretty? All right, let it stand. Talent? Put down what you think. When some of us consider a certain scene marvelous, others don't agree, so I can't gauge my ability, if any.
"Education — surely, what vou've learned from books, at school and at home, should be of use to you in screen acting.
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