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and Long Ago
childhood and recall their first memories, them gay, and all of them intensely real.
Gebhart
when he conceived the idea of climbing onto the roof of a shed. The feat was achieved. After satisfying his curiosity, he decided to jump down. This also was accomplished— but his expectations of landing on his feet were not. He lit on his head, which bears the scar of his first stunt to this day.
Norma Shearer's first definite memory is of a performance of "Lohengrin." That afternoon her mother had no one with whom to leave her and, though she was only four, took her along, thinking she might go to sleep. But she was completely enthralled, not by the music but by the beauty of it all.
"I remember almost every detail of the swan's entrance," Norma said. "For days afterward it seemed that the world was all wrong. I wanted my mother and her friends to wear clothes like Elsa had worn. I wanted swans to float down rivers, drawing boats with princes in them."
No wonder Pola Negri is such a tragic lady. Her first meeting with life was one to disturb any child's equilibrium. It was a wild ride on a pony. As she was being led around a farm in Poland, the pony jerked the reins from the attendant's hand and deposited the future dramatic queen on a wheat stack, with a long gash over her right
Elinor Fair's enjoyment of stick candy was always spoiled when her father took it away from her.
The return of Blanche Mehaffey's mother from the road stands out in her memory to-day.
eye. Pola still carries the scar of that joy ride.
Curled hair ! A starched dress ! Best little black slippers ! Of course, that means only one thing — having one's picture taken. Joan Crawford was a very small person then, but quite an actress.
"The light fascinated me. When I saw how purple my mother's lips looked, I began to cry, because I thought she had changed permanently. Then I became engrossed in posing. It was all very wonderful, and I talked and thought about it for weeks."
Little Eva flying to heaven, is Colleen Moore's earliest memory. The illusion of the scene made so deep an impression on the fouryear-old that she was led shrieking from the theater. The manager and her mother led her backstage to meet the actress, to prove to her that Eva was only playing, but still she was neither convinced nor consoled.
Every Saturday an Italian organ-grinder used to come to the neighborhood in which Lina Basquette resided. The monkey would perch on her shoulder to chatter and collect coins. One day a passing automobile back-fired. The monkey scurried up a tall scaffolding. Lina, being a tomboy, volunteered to capture him, and shinned up to where he clung. Suddenly glancing down, she saw the ground far
Colleen Moore, here seen with her brother, left, remembers little Eva flying to heaven.