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Are All Movie Stars High Hat?
That's what lots of people think, but are they right? The truth of the matter is that some of the players are ritzy and upstage, and some are not. But you'll usually find that those who are have some very good reason for being so.
By Ann Sylvester
THEY'RE pretty high hat, aren't they — pretty ritzy? Always putting on the dog — talking with accents they weren't born with • — thinking they're a little better than any one else.
That, in a few words, is the opinion of a great part of the unprofessional world concerning actors and actresses, movie or otherwise. That the . whole tribe, of Thespians are aloof and "airy," is the layman's pet superstition. The everyday world labors under the impression that, if it went up to shake hands with Su sie Snuffits, she'd turn up her little million-dollar nose, spin on her satin heel, and walk away. You yourself may have had a sneaking hunch to that effect.
Just to be perfectly frank, I'm not here to tell you that there is no truth in the idea. Some are ritzy, and some aren't. Mary Pickford is not. Bebe Daniels is not. rion Davies is not. Richard Dix is not. Oh, a lot of them aren't. But let's discuss those who are — or are supposed to be — and why.
Has it ever occurred to you that wearing a high hat might be a player's line of defense. Movie plavers may not be any hcti'cr than anybody else, but they're pestered a lot more than other people, and a cool manner has more than once saved them from a lot of boredom and waste of time.
Take the case of Clara Bow. When Clara first
Bebe Daniels is another who has always been considered a good fellow.
/ Photo by Melbourne Spun
Richard Dix is one star who could certainly never, under any circumstances, be accused of being high hat.
started in the movies, she was as friendly and effusive as a little bear cub. She thought that the world was her friend and would play no dirty tricks on her. She even liked newspaper reporters and confided some of her secrets to them. Maybe, you. read som.e of those early articles about Clara, and maybe you missed them, but anyway, they weren't any too flattering. They made her out to be a cross between a hoodlum child and a young lady who discussed her private' affairs with such startling frankness that it verged on bad taste.
Among others who read these stories was Clara. She decided, after that, that it was much better to be cautious than confidential. She now regards things with a stillfriendly, but much more careful, eye. She speaks vviien she is spoken to, and doe's not tell everything that she is asked. You can't blame her for that, can you, after the experience she had ? And yet her new decorum has earned her in certain charters the epithet of "high hat." It just goesi to show that you can't please everybody, and it's a wise movie star who minds her own business, even though she has to be aloof to do it.
The case of Pola Negri is quite different. Pola is no longer ritzy, hut when the flaming Polish star first struck Hollywood phe ^vas about the snobbiest lady who had ever turnerl up her nose in the little suburb. It really \\;\sn't Pnla's fault. Mabel Normand had told her to — or so the story goes. It seems that