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Good Nature?
their carefully guarded popularity as a club to force quite distressing. This article recounts some misguided enthusiasm.
Louise Walker
In one city she was asked to display dresses for a readyto-wear shop. The dresses were very cheap affairs, and Ruth was not happy when she saw herself in one or two of them. She protested that she was willing to lend her presence as a drawing card at the showing, but she did not wish to model. She was just off the train and was tired, she explained.
The dealer was indignant and threatened to wire ahead to cities which she was to visit later, and spread exceedingly unpleasant reports about her. Since the purpose of the tour was to promote friendship for the little blonde star and her company, she hesitated to antagonize this truculent and high-handed gentleman. So, as a compromise, she put on one or two of the frocks and paraded back and forth. Then she discovered that die had at least thirty more which he wished her to show. And he would know the reason why, if she didn't go through with it !
Publicity men in charge of the tour intervened and rescued her. But the 'indignant dealer did all he could to mar the remainder of her trip, by telegraphing to the cities she was to visit and reporting that she was high-hat and unobliging.
Colleen Moore and her husband, John McCormick, gave up a projected .trip to Europe, because of this very thing. And Colleen is one actress who actually enjoys meeting people who admire her on the screen.
"But," she confided, "I am not a very good sailor. And it is embarrassing to have the whole world look on while one is seasick !"
So they acquired a modest yacht and cruised along the Atlantic coast for a few weeks.
Off the coast of Florida, Colleen suddenly had the idea that she would like to fun over to Tampa, where she had lived as a very young girl, and spend a weekend with a school friend. So she packed •'• up, sent a wire to her IP friend, and arrived the next morning.
The reception which greeted her impulsive and informal arrival was pleasing. Brass bands tootled in the railway station. There was a ceremony which entailed her receiving keys to the city and what not. Bunting streamed from every telephone pole, and throngs packed the streets for blocks near the home of her friend.
A crowd stampeded a to see Colleen
Once Ramon Novarro was rescued from a crowd, but then faced five "parties."
"Never," says Colleen, "did a reception please me quite so much. It was so unexpected and spontaneous !"
The official letter of greeting from the mayor is framed and hangs on the wall of her dressing room now. She was a native daughter and Tampa welcomed her home.
But even that ovation had its drawbacks. During the whole of her stay the crowd milled about her friend's home, trampling and utterly ruining the beautiful gardens. They managed to break into the house time after time, in an effort to glimpse the little star at close quarters. People demanded to see her "wardrobe," and Colleen, with twinkling eyes, produced the one modest, extra dress she had brought in the The crowd was astounded. Her brief stay cost her friend's home friends hundreds of dollars in Moore. 'Continued on page 108
overnight bag.