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TRUE LIFE STAR STORIES
QFate has flayed many bitter ■pranks upon Gloria Swans on — but these very tragedies have taught her how to act.
aery "Here comes that terrible movie actor again." Time and time again he was hailed into court with the stern warning of innumerable judges and the levying of many fines. He was reprimanded by judge and boss and friend alike but without any effect. Wallie was young in those days and correspondingly reckless. Any bright afternoon when the yellow roadster dashed up Sheridan road and across to Argyle street a slight figure in a tarn o' shanter and a correct tailored suit might be seen in the low front seat, hat over her eyes, trying to talk while the speedometer registered sixty miles an hour.
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Gloria on the West Side of Chicago
'loria's family lived in an apartment on the West Side and her ride in the comfortable speedster after the long jaunt in the elevated approached somewhat the luxury that she had always unconsciously believed belonged to her and that one day she would get. The Swanson family were not in desperate straits, but Gloria was luxury loving and adored beautiful clothes. She longed to spread her wings and fly from the drab mediocrity of her life in a Chicago apartment to the life she felt awaited her in the big world; where opportunities are within the reach of all who know how to find them.
The rest of the girls, with the exception of Mabel Forrest, who had married the handsome Bryant in the meantime and had left the screen, looked upon Gloria with wonder and perhaps a little envy. She had a steady job and any girl who has ever tried earning a living as an extra knows what that means. Just when Gloria was managing to earn about S30 a week and thinking no girl was ever so lucky, Wallace Beery received an offer to come to Hollywood and join the Mack Sennett company. Mr. Sennett had recruited Ben Turpin from the Essanay left-overs and Turpin was beginning to be such a fine investment he decided Beery might do on a comedy lot.
Gloria Marries Wallace Beery
1 eery accepted and, of course, sent for Gloria and married her. But on the Sennett lot, conditions were reversed. Gloria became the star of the family. Sennett couldn't see Beery as a comedian but he could see Gloria and he gave her a chance to show what she could do as a bathing beauty. She was an
instantaneous success. The „ , o, • c ,
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girl with the retrousse nose, adopUd her present nask of
the big eyes and the graceful cynical coldness to hide the
walk won all the movie fans, tragedy in her heart. For she
Beery kept his job because has been treated cruelly by the
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MAURICE GOLDBERG