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Marguerite de la Motte, of the topaz eyes, jinxed her career by falling in love and giving her work second place.
MISFORTUNE is of two kinds — bad and worse. It is also of two consequences. Either it is a temporary setback that, overcome, in time leads to success, all the more appreciated because of the setback, or it is an inexplicable shadow that for no reason at all dogs our footsteps like a persistent bill collector.
The latter variety is more or less generally known as a jinx, and the term is much more common in Hollywood than you may have been led to believe. Stop on any street corner and listen to the word being parsed in several tongues : I am jinxed. Thou art jinxed. He or she is jinxed. We are jinxed. You are jinxed. They are jinxed. \ou'll get this from everybody, including producers and cowboys. And also child actresses.
I here are more jinxed careers in Hollywood to the square foot than real-estate operators, and I don't mean those unfortunate ones who never had a chance in the first place. It is of those charming people of talent and camera faces who could, and should, have made the grade, but haven't — so far — that I sing.
Consider for a moment, as one of the most jinxed careers in this or any other town, Priscilla Bonner's. Whenever people start one of those "why" conversations, they invariably start or end with, "Why haven't they done more with Priscilla Bonner?"
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Fate, luck, call it what you will, rules ca other place in the world. In this story you and the reasons why certain favorite players
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Then they call your attention xo her sensitive screen face and the way the girl has worked herself up from the very bottom. There isn't a copy-book maxim Priscilla hasn't practiced. She has been consistently good where others have been flashily clever. When at first she didn't succeed she tried again. She did her work with cheerful diligence and saved many a poor picture by the strength of her individual performance.
But the jinx fastened itself onto Priscilla and, just as she was getting off to a flying start, the fashion in heroines underwent a change. Ingenues, particularly sympathetic ones, went out with a rush, and the wise-cracking model supplanted her in the close-ups. Handicapped by type, and lacking the showmanship to keep herself conspicuously in the public and producing mind, she has gone along for years holding her ground, all right, but not annexing the new territory her work entitles her to.
And speaking of showmanship — or the lack of it — brings Ethel Shannon so vividly to mind that we, both of us, will digress for a moment to the red-headed Ethel, whose name might have been Clara Bow if she had known how to exploit herself sufficiently. In other words, Ethel wasn't an imported Swede named Yora with
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Priscilla Bonner is considered the special pet of the jinx, her bad luck being phenomenal.
Virginia Brown Faire was doing splendidly when the jinx swooped down upon her.
Thoto by Harold Dean Carsey