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Lorelei Lee is chosen at last! She's Ruth Taylor, former Mack Sennett girl, and now, laments Fanny, there's nothing more to argue about.
WELL," said Fanny, in an imperious manner that i suggested that big things had been settled in a big Avay, "it is all over now."
I didn't have even a chance to ask her what was all over — she was determined to speak her piece without any interruptions from me.
"The girl to play Lorelei Lee in 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' has been selected, and the biggest argument since the disputes over who should play Peter Pan and Ben-Hur is ended. And the funny part of it is that the selection is absolutely right. Ruth Taylor is the perfect choice for the part.
''At first, when I heard that a girl by that name was to play the most famous heroine in modern literature, I was puzzled. I couldn't place her. Then suddenly I remembered a bland, trustful, and altogether delightful young person by that name whom
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Fanny the Fan marvels over the several obscure young players, pictures, and picks up bits of gossip
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I had once met with Madeline Hurlock. I rushed to the telephone and Madeline assured me it was the same girl.
"She played in Sennett comedies for a while; then, when her contract with Sennett expired, she set bravely out as a freelance. Her only engagement in months was in a Reginald Denny picture. When she got the job as Lorelei she had been out of work for ages, and was about to give up in despair.
"If she is one half as good in the role as every one thinks she will be, a longterm contract is sure to be the reward. And if Providence is kind, Anita Loos should be retained to write stories for her, for I am sure Ruth would be delightful in the type of comedies Constance Talmadge used to make."
Fanny spoke with such vehemence that T knew she was sincere and not merely tr\-ing to climb onto the band wagon. But I couldn't resist reminding her that she had never even thought of Ruth Taylor \ for the part. With her usual blithe, casual manner, she ignored me.
"I don't wonder that hope never dies in the hearts of players, no matter how long they are out of v.'ork," she rambled on idly. There are so many flagrant examples of big success coming suddenly after long discouragement. Look at Rosemar}' Cooper."
I am always perfectly willing — even anxious — to look at Rosemary Cooper, and have found the chances all too rare. But I couldn't quite see what ^ she had to do with this argument, if 3-ou can '] call one of Fanny's ; monologues an argui ment.
' "Nobod}' ever had a i worse streak of bad ,.i luck than Rosemary I had," Fanny went on. f "She photographs divinely, is a very good trouper, and seems to have every requisite of a successful player. Yet she got stranded in serials and small-time
Rosemary Cooper's streak of bad luck had a happy ending when she was picked from a lot of other girls to play a dominant role in D. W. Griffith's next picture.