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Q.lt sixteen Barbara La Man married an Arizona ranch man — and destiny seemed to intend to hide her for the rest of her iife in the arid wastes of the Southwest.
ere is a tale ten times wilder and weirder than any fiction. You wouldn't believe it if you read it in a magazine. You would sneer and say, "It isn't true; life isn't like that." You would give the author credit for imagination and let it go at that.
You remember that there was once a woman whose face launched a thousand ships. You have read about the great beauties of history and wished you could have been around when they were making life exciting for the historians. But you may not know that you have with you today — now — a woman whose career has been as colorful, as dramatic and as unbelievable as the lives of the famous sirens of the past.
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The Girl who was Too Beautiful
or one thing, it has never before been recorded that a woman was too beautiful. It remained for the motion picture, that enfant terrible, to introduce her to the world. Now that
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QThis is the fourth of Screenland's much talked about chronicles of the film luminaries ^ presenting the picturesque story of "the girl who was too beautiful!'
By Delight
her face, which was once a curse, has become worth several thousand dollars a week to her, she may prefer to forget that she was once known as the girl who was too beautiful. Now that her name is as much of a symbol for seductiveness as Theda Bara's used to be, she has acquired a new story — at least she has repudiated her past as the little girl who was too beautiful and substituted other more conventional events for the dizzy experiences which have made her interesting. But she can't live down her past because that past is too much a part of her success to gloss over and ignore. Meet Barbara La Marr.
The rules for a man's success may be found in any old copy book or success magazine. But a woman is not supposed to have any rules. It's blamed on the magic wand of opportunity, or luck, or most often beauty. Of men, one hears of the long battle with poverty or the struggle for education and a start; of the steep climb to fame or fortune; and is then asked to contemplate with awe the often rotund person of the colossus of art or industry.
With women, how different! The success of a beautiful girl is taken for granted. It seldom occurs to the world that there must be a background for beauty if that beauty is going to mean anything.
Bent with the Winds of Experience
'on' t think for a moment that Barbara La Marr would be the knockout she is today if she had not bent with the winds of experience. She is not a great actress and she is not, now, perhaps, an actually great beauty. But she is a personage. There's no getting away from that. You may dislike her— many people do — for her superficialities, her poses, her attitudes. You may decline to admit that she is an actress at all. But you cannot deny that she has become one of the outstanding personalities in pictures. She demands attention and she gets it. There have not been many women of the stage or the screen to exact such homage from a public. And it is not so
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