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Thougd she's lovely to see, Miss Dragone+te dislikes personal
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^S|AN you remember ever having seen any fl . "personal appearances" of Jessica Drag^^^ onette in the theatres of your town? The answer is correct; no, you can't. What's more, you aren't likely to see many. Jessica Dragonette doesn't go in for personal appearances. The reason why gives you the key to the character of this wistfully appealing girl who has captured and held the imagination of the vast radio public for seven years. No, there's nothing Garbo-ish about her. She isn't aloof, she isn't the least mysterious, and
she's enthusiastically devoted to her hearers. She doesn't want the public to see her, though, because she's afraid of robbing folks of their illusions about her.
After that, you'll probably think that Jessica isn't so easy on the eyes. Nothing could be further from the truth. She is beautiful, in a delicate, almost fairy-like way. She measures five feet two, and weighs not quite one hundred pounds. She has wavy blonde hair with golden lights in it, and hazel eyes which reflect so many colors that she herself describes them as "plaid." Her face is oval, and her features are cameo-like and lovely. And she insists upon hiding these high-powered charms from her millions of listeners, in order that she may go on being to each of them exactly the sort of person he wants her to be!
One of her admirers writes to her that he imagines her a tall, voluptuous brunette. Another sees her as a pert harum-scarum with copper curls. A third addresses the handful of her as "Revered Madame." Still another insists that the peculiar charm of her voice and her radio personality could belong only to a mature woman, who has lived and suffered ... a motherly, Schumann-Heink-ish sort of creature! And instead of resenting these pictures of her, which so clearly rob her of her real self, she'd give up anything rather than destroy them ! She wants to be? to each of us exactly the sort of human being we most need to complete our picture of her. If we didn't like her, she argues, we wouldn't be making these pictures!
It takes a lot of spiritual insight to realize the importance of this kind of illusion. And there you have Jessica Dragonette. She is capable of imagination herself and respects the quality in others. The only thing in the world she's afraid of is disappointing people. The spiritual Quality of her singing isn't "put on"; {Continued on page 63)
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