Picture-Play Magazine (Sep 1928 - Feb 1929)

Advertising Section 111 Aloof and Friendly Continued from page 49 When she was fourteen, the family moved to Los Angeles. Now, I have it from some of Fay's schoolmates that she was its shining, literary light. It was Fay who named their school yearbook "The Reflector" — which name it still bears. It was Fay who wrote this poem, the onlv one individually signed in "The Reflector" for 1923. The Mountains The mightiest things that nature's hand hath made, Majestic in their dignity they stand, Aglow with life now as the sun doth fade, And fill each chasm with shadows deep and grand. They are the kings; all nature owns their might. The floods, the waves, the rivers pass away, That ball of fire sinking out of sight Acknowledges their power, every da}^. From out their sides stand mighty silhouettes Of weird, strange faces carved by some huge hand, Sphinxlike in wisdom so that one forgets His fleeting life and marvels as he stands. They symbolize serene, eternal power, Seen by the eyes of ages of the past. They still shall be until the destined hour When time shall cease and earth shall pass away. At fourteen or thereabouts, most of Fay's school chums were beginning to attend parties with their boy friends. Fay was aloof. She was "different." Unquestionably the prettiest girl in the school, with her deepblue eyes, her curly, brown hair and her lovely face, she was always singled out for special attentions ; but she quietly and serenely would have none of them. She was to be a writer. She must study. Fay's literary ambitions were sidetracked when the Wrays moved to Hollywood. Somehow she found small bits, during vacations, at one of the lesser studios. After that, she knew her place must be on the screen. She went back to high school, but did not finish ; for an offer came for work at the Hal Roach studio — and Ray accepted it. Her signing for the role of Mitzi, in "The Wedding March," and her subsequent contract with Paramount, are well known. She is now one of the elite on the Paramount lot. Her roles in "The Legion of the Condemned," "The Street of Sin," and "The First Kiss" have established her as a leading player in her own right. Fay Wray and Gary Cooper have brought to the screen one of its most satisfying young couples. I suppose you are wondering just how much this new life of fame and glamour has changed the serious, domestic little girl. Quite truthfully it has changed her very little, if at all. She loves her work — the work that is an outgrowth of her play acting of the surprise-party days. Instead of her childhood friends, it is now the great movie-going public that gives her "surprise parties." She wants to go as high as she can in pictures. Fay is cultivating her already lovely voice, so that sound pictures will not find her wanting. "I've never had a lifelong chum like most girls have," she told me. "I don't know why, unless it is that I was always so serious, and needed none but Willa." A few weeks ago the mother of one of the girls who used to attend Fay's high school decided it would be pleasant to bring together some of the girls who were classmates there. Fay was among those invited. She accepted, overjoyed at the prospect of again seeing her one-time classmates. But a location trip intervened, and Fay sent her regrets, adding that should another such gettogether be planned, she would not wish to be excluded. Her career has interfered with her domestic proclivities. She has not the time in which to do the things she would like to do in her home. But, believe it or not, she still derives pleasure from cooking and sewing ; and the things she makes for her own wear are skillfully fashioned. Pier sense of humor? We were discussing my imminent journey on shipboard, and Fay was very seriously recommending chewing gum as a preventive of seasickness. "Really," she urged, "I've never been troubled, and I always chew gum when we go on location over the water. If you do take some with you, and it doesn't do any good, you may say in your story that Fay Wray's prescription for staving off mal dc mcr was all damp. Fay Wray's personality, her character and her appearance may be described as the nearest to "ideal" that girls ever attain. I do not — most emphatically do not — mean to be anything but sincere when I make such a statement. For it seems to me that those qualities embodied in the nearideal are, first, strong character ; then a pleasant and cultured personality, a sense of humor, friendliness, a lack of selfish self-esteem, and a pleasingly attractive appearance and voice. Fay Wray has all these cardinal virtues. 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