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Polly's Back
In fact,' all of Polly Moran has returned to the movies — and with a bang!
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LOOKIE ! I'm a senorita !" It was Polly Moran, herself. The inimitable, irresistible Polly was all dressed up in a flounced organdie dress, with a Spanish comb in her hair, a mantilla, and a fan to complete the picture.
Photo by Louis
Polly Moran likes the contact with an animate audience which the stage affords, but thinks making movies is lots of fun.
Photo by Louise
Polly is just naturally funny, whether amusing situ a t i o n s or lines are provided or not.
They were m a k i n g a Spanish fiesta scene in "Tide of Em pir e," and somebody had thought of a funny sequence that m i g h t be introduced. So they had sent for Polly, and had written her into the story. Which often happens to Poll}-. She is that kind of a comedienne.
"Look at the waspish waist I have now !" she cried, twist
ing herself about to show the safety pins in the back of her dress, where it had been pinned over to accommodate her new thinness.
"I've been sick and I've lost twenty-two pounds. Makes me look like a gopher — what with these buck teeth of mine. But at that, it's better than I was before — when I was so fat I looked like a quartet !
"It was getting this contract that did it," she babbled on. "As soon as I had signed I began eating my way through big, thick, beefsteaks. Steaks and steaks and steaks. They made me sick. Now I have to live on lettuce ! Oh, well ! i
"You know — the only unpleasant thing to eat that they haven't thought of is dog biscuits. I thought I'd suggest them to the doctor. He'd be so pleased to know about something else nasty that he could recommend to people !"
She interrupted herself to exclaim, "Gee ! It's great to be back in pictures ! I was so downright homesick ' for 'em. Oh, ye-yuss!"
Polly has a way of droning out her "yeses" like that. It is most engaging.