Screenland (Oct 1924–Apr 1925)

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Corinne Griffith is unique. Without asking for attention she gets it. The spotlight just naturally follows her around. Things are handed to her. It happened that way when she first went to the coast, unknown to fame or film folk. She had been invited to a party and she danced with all the delight that a young girl expresses in the rhythmic movements of her lovely body. Her cheeks glowed with the thrill of dancing; her eyes shone, and perhaps there was just a little wistful expression n them because such perfect moments could not endure forever. And, as the dance ended, some people she never saw before, approached with great ceremony and handed her a perfectly ducky silver loving-cup. It was the beauty prize. She had not known that there was a beauty contest. She was simply being herself. And so, quite naturally, the prize for beauty went to the little stranger from New Orleans. The next day she was offered a screen contract. There was no nagging and vamping of casting directors, no trudging from studio to studio. No heart breaking suspense leaving one' address and waiting for a call. Success was just handed to her. Of course that does not mean that she did not work to perfect herself in her art. She is gifted. Her early work with the brush shows that she might have won laurels as a painter. Being a great artist as well as a beautiful girl, she had the impulse to master the technique of the screen. And that means work. Hard work and brains. But she was lucky enough not to have to waste her strength and fray her nerves to tatters in getting an opportunity. That was handed to her, like the beauty prize. But was it luck? Was it something 'that no other girl can hope for? Not at all. It's not a secret. It's only an age-old feminine quality that our grandmothers knew well. They belonged to a generation when women were not go-getters. Neither were they gold diggers. They were not "pals," not "good mixers," and their figures were not boyish. They were feminine through and tlhrougn. They saw to that. Demurely they went to church on Sunday and when they heard the preacher read from the Good Book, "Male and female created He them," they felt that they had something to think about all week. They gloried m the fact that men and women were created different. Their clothes emphasized that interesting fact: wide flounces and costly foolish fluffy things. No sensible sports costume, riding breeches or knickers for those wise, wise maidens. They did not want equality. What they were after was woman'; rights. Woman's right to be adored. Shields, and handed things. Not the right of fighting for stand iiig room in the subway and pounding si typewriter all day in the office. Ther fighting for standing room in the subwaj with a lot of men. Wise, wise maidens of our grand mother's day! They had things handed to them. Men gave them seats. Men thanked them for accepting. Men still do that in the "backward southern states. Well, Corinne Griffith is a daughter o the old, old south. Her childhood mem ories are all of dim, stately rooms in Colonial mansion, with stiff, gate-legge tables, highboys and dusky portraits o the walls. "Remember you are a lady was the phrase she heard again and agai as a child. She never forgot it. She was educated in a convent, a the graces of an earlier taught within those quiet gentle black-robed sisters. She learned to speak in a low unhu> ried voice. It is like soft music in th staccato age, that honeyed drawl of Ne Orleans. She learned the value of the wonderfi poise that is her natural heritage, tl quiet dignity that marks the gentlewomai How it impresses one in a country whei "step lively" is the slogan! She learned the expressiveness that in a woman's lovely hand. The taperir fingers that can cling with love or wa' a fan with dangerous languor. One lool| at those hands as delicate instrumen for recording the subtle moods of h soul, not as capable tools for doii workaday tasks. In this age of efficienc it is a delight to see hands that are pure decorative. Such hands are sung by the poet "The white wonder of dear Juliehand!" exclaims the world's best knov lover, and lets it go at that. He do not add a word about how deftly tho hands can flip a flap jack, darn a sock spank a baby. They were good to look at and th was plenty for Romeo. There is another secret of Corin Griffith's charm. She can look so pi fectly helpless in this complicated civil day are sti walls by th