Screenland (Oct 1923-Mar 1924)

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BARBARA LA MARR QHer life story wilder than any fiction tale, Miss La Marr has come to fame through the emotional whirlpools. Since she was fifteen, she has been the beautiful storm center of several -passionate romances. ans much herface-that-was-too-beautiful that made her what she istoday — to everybody's satisfaction. It'stheratherthrilling 7 0 Barbara La Marr came to the screen by way of writing scenarios. Then someone guessed her haunting screen quality and she made her debut in an Anita Stewart production. drama which that facepropelled her into. Get these things that went into the making of the Barbara La Marr of today. A kidnapping at fifteen; a capture by a cowboy and a mad dash to the altar carried across the saddle of her conqueror: widowhood ; a police court ; banishment from Los Angeles because of her beauty; marriage to an insane bigamist and a second widowhood; cabarets; vaudeville; a literary leaning and motion picture scenarios; the extra route to stardom. She was only fifteen when her real life story began. She was designed by fate to be the center of an emotional whirlpool from the very beginning. A girl who looked as Barbara La Marr looked then was not meant for a life of obscurity in a little California town. Things began to happen to her and kept right on happening, and if they stop happening to her now it will be because there are few things in her life's scenario left to happen. T Kidnapped from her Home he story goes that she was kidnapped from her home — spirited away. Frantic search was made for the child and she was finally found miles away wrhere she had been carried in a [Continued on page 91] 63