Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Jul 1929)

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90 Sisters Under trie Skin When Marian Nixon had her tonsils removed, she received letters of sympathy from veterans who had lost their sense of humor in the war. Los Angeles hospitals by their first names. And they know her so well that she has ceased to be a case — she's just "back again." "The last time I went to the hospital was more for my nerves than physical condition," Bebe told me one day just after she got back from New York. "I would work hard in the studio and when I would go home at night, I would find card games and all sorts of parties in full sway. I was more to blame for that than any one else. I love having people at my home. I ask them to come, because I want them. But I wasn't get Photo by Autrey Florence Gilbert's ambulance ride attracted more attention than her work on the screen, she says. Photo by Spurr ting any rest. So I solved that problem by engaging a room at the hospital and sleeping there every night. As a patient, I had to be in bed by ten o'clock. And everybody knows that 'early to bed and early to rise' will make healthy girls out of actresses." Marian Nixon puckered up her nose when she mentioned her one operation. "It wasn't at all serious," she apologized. "I just had my tonsils out." All of a sudden Marian's femininity rushed to the front. "But people have been known to die from just such a little thing as that," she added proudly. "It was merely a minor, but just as much excitement and fun as though I had enjoyed — ■ is that the word? — a really important operation. I went to the hospital, took an anaesthetic and received flowers and presents and messages, all without the inconvenience and danger that attends a major operation." When word reached the newspapers that Marian was in the hospital, she received letters from fans who had never written to her before. "I received an awful lot of letters from women who sympathized heartily with me, and went into accounts of their own operations. But the letters I appreciated most came from men, who had been injured in the war and wrote to me not as a player, but as one patient to another. One letter in particular brought me a friend I value. It was from an Englishman, who had been bedridden since the war. Since then he and I have corresponded." Grace Gordon's jaunt to the hospital to get her shoulder reset, following an automobile accident, was more than an operation — it developed into a romance. Grace recently married young Doctor Nolan, a brother of Shirley O'Hara. It happened like this : Grace was rushed to the hospital the collision. She was in a serious condition, with a broken shoulder blade and injuries to her vertebrae. But the most serious thing wrong with her was her disposition. Oh, how she ached with anger ! The very morning of the accident she had been promised a very good role in "The Godless Girl," and now she was to be confined in the hospital for three weeks, if not longer. She ached from both her pain and her ire. "Until a very handsome young doctor started paying calls around my way, I was probably the snootiest patient in the world," Grace admits. "I was so cross I actually felt sorry for my own nurses. I thought there wasn't any fate, or justice. Else why was I knocked out of Continued on page 107