Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Jul 1929)

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Advertising Section 109 Esther — As She Continued from page 34 spair, it being the era of ingenues. Gave her books to read, taught her to talk and behave without striving for effect, encouraged her to develop opinions of her own, to think independently. The Ralston clan was resentful of this outside influence that was absorbing more and more of Esther. She was changing — her money was going into an account of her own, instead of the family coffers; her interests were no longer centered in the clan. She was becoming an entity in herself and this man was blamed. And Esther was openly in love with him. They were panic-stricken. The man was dark and suave, with a waxed mustache, and they doubtless construed him as the heavy of the piece. Esther's secession from her family has always been a source of aching sadness to her. She is still a Ralston, one of the clan, and it grieves her that, with the exception of her mother and a brother, Clarence, whom she loves, she is denied by the family. And the breach widened irrevocably when she married the resented man. George Webb is fifteen years Esther's 'senior, but there is no gap between their tastes, their interests, their ideas. After five years they are still rapturously in love. Theirs is not one of the better-known "happy marriages of Hollywood," because they feel no urge to publicize their happiness. It exists for them, which is all that matters. Esther's attitude toward her career is not feverish or strained. She works earnestly and with enjoyment, but her actual life revolves around her husband and his two little daughters. These three people are dearer to her than the most fabulous of contracts. On them she lavishes the warmth and abundant tenderness that starved so long. Her magnificent home on a hilltop above the town is still an incredible place to her. Even after several years of success, she can't quite realize that it is she, so surrounded by luxury — the same girl who helped carry the scenery of the Ralston troupe along the railroad tracks from one town to another, when there was no money for fares. Her delight in comfort and lovely things is the keener for still remembering vividly what went before. She loves peace, quiet, seclusion. For this reason, she and her husband seldom go out. Last year their only public appearances were one visit to the Coconut Grove, one to the Mayfair, and attendance at the opening of "Interference." They entertain frequently, but quietly, at home. On an average of three evenings a week, they are alone, playing honeymoon bridge on the floor in front of the fire, or, now and then, playing hilarious games of# mah jong with the houseboy and cook, who idolize them. Besides managing all her contracts, Esther's husband has invested and increased her money so shrewdly that, were movies to vanish to-morrow, she is secure for the remainder of her life. He looks after all details of her business so that there are no petty difficulties to disturb her. She lives on a fifteen-dollar-a-week allowance, finding it ample to cover her modest flings. She loves to sew, and has always been able to construct dresses from any remnant handy. She makes most of the clothes for the two little girls, delighting in new designs in smocking or embroidery with which to please them. Her own clothes are simple and very smart, and obviously from the best shops. She wears her clothes well, being tall, graceful and easy of movement. She is a rabid picture fan, and a regular patron of the neighborhood theaters. She adores Gloria Swanson as the epitome of charm and elan. Her idol is Mary Pickford. She has visited Pickfair a few times, when Mary entertained Our Girls Club. On these occasions she followed her hostess like a shadow, praying for some emergency to arise so that she could save her life, or pass her a cup of tea or something — anything. She likes to swim, and every morning before breakfast, winter and summer, has a quick plunge in the pool. During the summer she and her husband keep Sunday open house and, with their guests, are in bathing suits from morning until evening, sometimes till midnight. She is an adept dancer, having danced since, as a child, a fall from a trapeze precluded further acrobatic work. She has not kept it up conscientiously, but on many evenings after dinner she turns on the phonograph and dances for her own pleasure. She has never outgrown the imaginative moods she had when a child, and was forever being interrupted in the midst of some splendid scene by a prince who had come to claim her. 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