Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1927)

29 Do You Believe Hunches ? in If you don't, just read this story. It tells about some startling hunches that Renee Adoree has had, and what an important part they have played in her life and career. By Helen Louise Walker RENEE ADOREE is psychic — she told me so herself. I haven't a ghost of an idea what it means, except that fortune tellers sometimes tell you very impressively that you are psychic, apparently thinking they are paying you a tremendous compliment. I knew a dear old lady once who claimed she was psychic, and she used to know when it was going to rain, and she used to have a certain dream when somebody in her family was going to die, and she used to nod wisely and hint that there were many other things she knew that were hidden from ordinary mortals. As a child, I found her very depressing, and yet gruesomely fascinating. She had a large mole on her left eyebrow which I connected in some way with her psychic powers, and I used to wonder why she didn't have it removed and thus get rid of her affliction. For I thought it must be awfully melancholy to be constantly aware of the sad things that were about to happen— it was always bad news that she prognosticated. And after the thing had happened, she used to look mysterious and hint that "they" had informed her beforehand that the woeful occurrence was about to take place. But "they" never seemed to tell her in time for her to prevent whatever it was from happening, and so it all seemed to my childish mind to be a very useless, meaningless state of affairs. But Renee's psychic powers are not like that. No, indeed ! She has useful powers, which help her to get things she wants and enable her to find out people's addresses and — oh, lots of things ! It was Darios himself who told Miss Adoree she was psychic. Darios, as every one must know by this time, is Hollywood's pet fortune teller. There are men in some of the highest executive positions in the film world who never make an important move without consulting him. He advises famous stars, producers, and directors about love, marriage, and the pursuit of their careers. Some of them won't even get a divorce without consulting him ! I know of an engagement between two wellknown young players who were tremendously in love with each other that was broken simply because Darios said it would never, never do. Darios, you see, is a person By playing another hunch, she got an important role that she wanted. One of her hunches led Renee to the discovery of her long-lost sister down in Mexico. of consequence. And it was he who told Renee she was psychic. She told me about it one afternoon when I visited her on the set at the Metro-Goldwyn studio. Black-haired, blue-eyed, vivacious, and ever so French, she did not in the least resemble the psychic acquaintance of my childhood. There is no mole upon Miss Adoree's left eyebrow ! "Darios, he tol' me I was psychic," she said. "Darios is a great man — arid he is my good frien'. I do not know about fortune tellers — some sings zey know, ozzer sings, zey have zem wrong. Darios knows a great many sings. About ze future — I do not sink any one can really know. But sometimes I get honches." "Really? What kind of hunches?" I urged. "Oh — little sings. I dream of somebody, and next day I get a letter. Or I have a honch I will see some one I have not seen for long time — and I do see him. Zat is what I mean by honches. Zat is why Darios tell me I am psychic. Only he tell me first, and zen I tell him about my honches. He is very psychic — zat Darios — and mos' interesting man !" "But have you had other hunches — more important Continued on page 104