Picture-Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1926)

Advertising Section 103 A Case of Real Friendship Continued from page 26 "She has retained that spirit. When things get jumbled up now — for success brings responsibilities and worries of a different kind — she veneers the situation with amusement. "She loves dining in luxurious cafes — she loves the polished air of comfort, the little attentions. Yet she also adores chafing-dish suppers and making salads in her own kitchen. "Clothes appeal to her, as to all girls. Athrill, she displays a new gown. But, in hiking suit and an old felt hat of her brother's, she tramps for hours up in the hills, and revels in being tired and dirty. "She is good at sports, but hasn't lost a certain little feminine helplessness. She can lick me at tennis, match me at golf, outdistance me when we swim, and then collapse, in that delicious little way a girl has of giving up, which makes a man feel like Hercules. "Her gameness, perhaps, has its basis in pride. When we were on location in the mountains for 'Lucretia Lombard' scenes, I asked her to ride with me. Our mounts were spirited and, feeling in fine mettle myself, I let mine have his rein. Because of the pace I set along the winding trails, it was rather arduous. I expected her every minute to call a halt, and admired her fine horsemanship and her endurance. 'Only a girl who rides every day,' I thought, 'could stick through this.' "When we returned to the inn, hours later, she dropped from the saddle and, to use an inelegant term, sprawled into my arms. " 'I'm so ashamed of myself,' she managed to whisper, with a disgusted laugh, 'but, John, I hadn't been on a horse in six years.' "That is the Norma Shearer I know ■ — and like tremendously." John has been a little dispirited because his career has not kept pace with hers. Since "Kiss Me Again," he has not had a really satisfactory role. But now that he has left Warner Brothers, and is free-lancing, he hopes to be able to choose better parts for "himself. While he was under contract, he had to play any role that was given to him, whether it was attractive or not. Norma's faith in him is also a great encouragement to him. And meanwhile, he watches the Norma Shearer who is like a sister to him and in whom he has always had confidence, go steadily upward, accomplishing the seemingly impossible thing of remaining genuine and unspoiled, in spite of success and flattery. The Telephone and Better Living Pictures of pre-telephonic times seem quaint today. In the streets were horses and mud-splashed buggies, but no automobiles and no smooth pavements. Fifty years ago homes were heated by stoves and lighted by gas or kerosene lamps. There was no domestic steam heating or electric lighting, nor were there electric motors in the home. Not only were there no telephones, but there were no phonosgraphs, no radio and no motion pictures. The telephone permitted the separation of business office from factory and made possible the effective co-ordination of widespread activities by a centralized organization. It changed the business habits of the Nation. " The amazing growth of the country in the past fifty years could not have come had not science and invention supplied the farmer, manufacturer, business man and family with many new inventions, great and small, for saving time and labor. During this period of marvelous industrial progress, the telephone had its part. It has established its own usefulness and greatly accelerated the development of the industrial arts which have contributed so much to better living conditions and to the, advancement of civilization. American Telephone and Telegraph Company and Associated Companies system IN ITS SEMI-CEmTENNIAL YEAR THE BELL SYSTEM LOOKS FORWARD TO CONTINUED PROGRESS IN TELEPHONE COMMUNICATION YouCan if If It s a Buescher Saxophone We give 3 free lessons with each new instrument They start you. Teach yourself. It's great fun1 practicing because you learn so quickly. Even though you have failed with some other instrument, you can learn the Buescher Saxophone. And it will make you the most popular person in your set. 6 days' free trial in your own home, any instrument. No obligations. Easy terms if you decide to buy. Send now for beautiful free literature. A postal brings liberar proposition. Address: Buescher Band Instrument Co. , u 1512 Buescher Block Elkhart, Indiana Before After Beautiful Eyes Ittst antly (DelicQ&row is the original Waterproof Liquid Dressing for the lashes and brows. Your first application will make your lashes seem long, dark and heavy, and your eyes very large and bright. Send for Free Two Weeks' Supply You will never know what beautiful eyes you really have until you use Deliea-Brow. Send for a free trial bottle today. Kindly enclose 10c for packing and mailing. Delica Laboratories, Inc., Dept. 65 3012 Clvbourne Ave. Chicago. 111.