Screenland (May–Oct 1925)

60 SCREENLAND Doris Kenyon' s Horoscope — Continued from page 34 ground with her. "It is an exact mathematical science," Miss Carleton had told me, "worked out by spherical trigonometry." I believed her. If spherical trigonometry had anything to do with it I was out of the running. Having retired from the unequal struggle, I sat back to enjoy myself, as a dramatic critic might settle down to enjoy a play he didn't have to review. Miss Kenyon, I discovered, is a very easy person to gaze upon — in fact, I might say it is somewhat difficult to refrain from gazing. Here is the fragile beauty that the camera can capture but a fraction of, for an essential part of it is the delicate gold and blue and white coloring which is, of course, totally lost in photographing. Her hair is gold, with a tinge of red in it, and because red photographs black, as any good fan well knows, in a portrait her hair looks almost a dark brown. She has large blue eyes, and one of those creamy white skins-you-love-to-touch, with just the proper dash of pink in it. Her dress was blue, a perfect shade, and had pink flowers — roses, I think — painted about the hem. The sun was streaming through the French doors leading into the garden. Out there, forming a nice background, was a fountain, circled about with flowers. (Doris is an authority on gardens.) A perfect setting, .if ever there was one, and Miss Kenyon, with hardly the least effort, succeeded in looking utterly seraphic. "Miss Kenyon was saying something about having thrown away one of her two previous horoscopes because she worried about things it predicted. I pricked up my ears again. "But you mustn't use it in that fatalistic way," Miss Carleton protested earnestly. "Why, it's the worst sort of a handicap if you do — not a help at all. "In the particular aspect of ill fortune, it is intended to warn you against certain situations or events which your chart shows could occur, under certain conditions. If I should tell you that some time next December you are apt to meet with an accident, it doesn't necessarily follow that that accident is going to happen. If you exercise care to avoid it. The signs might point to your participation in a shipwreck, but if you deliberately refrained from ship travel during that period, you'd be beating the game, wouldn't you? "Similarly, I might tell you of a wonder ful business success that lay ahead of you in a certain line of work. It could never be more than potential success; it would be up to you to be prepared to seize it when it came along. If you deliberately gave up your work and entered something else you would have thrown away your opportunity. Use your horoscope as a guide. Don't let it be a source of worry." "I know. 'A wise man rules his stars; a fool obeys them'," quoted Miss Kenyon. Miss Carleton assured her that from the superficial reading she could give on the spot, there didn't seem a great deal for her to worry about. If the hour she had given for her birth was absolutely correct, the coming year should start a marvelously successful and happy period, she said. Neptune and Jupiter, it seems, had much to do with Miss Kenyon's career. Neptune — I learned at least this much — brings a, marked aesthetic sense, a high idealism, love for the arts,, particularly music. Jupiter brings a love of the stage. Their combined influence, it appears, has made of Miss Kenyon a musician, a poet, a connoisseur of all the rest of the seven arts, as well as an actress of rare charm. Doris Kenyon and the Astrologer— by Jane Carleton ,nr"Y afternoon with Miss Doris Ken/ 1 yon was a pleasant, enjoyable break in this work-a-day monotony. Not only did I find her charming, but a kindred spirit — she has studied Astrology. I started my reading of her Horoscope by saying: Gemini was rising on the Eastern Horizon at the time you were born. And Miss Kenyon, much to my surprise, answered right away: "Oh yes, Gemini is the Twins; one Twin says, 'Let us do it this way,' and the other twin says, 'No, we must do it this way,' that accounts for my love of change." Not only for your love of change, say I, but your adaptability. Because of the changeableness in your nature you can suit yourself to any environment, and take on for the time being the conditions and moods of those with whom you are associated. It is this influence that stands you in such good stead in your screen work, making it possible to be one type today, and tomorrow play a part entirely different. Also it makes it easy for you to carry out direction. Gemini rising gives you the mental planet Mercury as your Ruling Planet. Mercury was the messenger of the gods, in Grecian mythology. Not only that but he was a peacemaker. One day when out on an errand for one of his many god friends, he saw a staff that he liked very much. It was just what he needed on his many flying visits through the vaulted blue, for he also was the treasurer for the gods and handled the purse, and I suppose even in those days he was afraid of hold-up-men, so he wanted it for protection. Anyway, liking it and needing it, he took the staff. Continuing on his way he saw two snakes in battle. He put his staff down between them to stop their quarreling, and much to his surprise, they coiled themselves around it in perfect contentment and harmony. In all of the pictures or statues of the winged Mercury, notice how he is holding his precious staff. He is bringing his love of peace to the troubled world. Being your ruling planet he gives you this quality; you are a natural born peace maker. One of the nicest influences in your chart is the Sun, the giver of life, and Jupiter the planet that gives us our greatest material blessings, in the fifth house, or the house of the amusements of the public. Here again Miss Kenyon surprised me by saying: "Oh yes, I remember that, let me see what else does that house stand for?" And then I said that same little house has a very great deal to do with love affairs, and the Sun and Jupiter there will give you many of these pleasant pastimes, for you see Jupiter is the cornucopia, and he gives and gives and gives, and the Sun too makes things grow — strange to say, Miss Kenyon didn't look as pleased as most young misses would. But, being on the subject she couldn't help asking a few questions, for it is some time since she studied astrology, and being so much occupied otherwise, she has become a little vague. "What is the planet that rules our love affairs, Venus isn't it?" Again you are right; Venus, beautiful Venus, our Morning Star at the present time, is the planet of Love and the Artistic side of the nature, and with you she is in Leo the natural sign ruling both Love Affairs and the Amusements of the Public, and friendly to Mars, who always brings into activity the nature of the planets he influences, and she is also mingling her rays with those of Mercury your ruler, so you see it was foreordained; you were born to give pleasure to others. But thank the gods for these positions of the planets in your horoscope, for they promise you marvelous success in any artistic profession where you are catering to the public at large; and you must take the added sweet to the Sweet, for without this Love Interest so strong in your chart, you would not be loved and adored by the masses. Neptune, the planet of our aesthetic sense, is in the first house of your horoscope; Neptune's mission is to refine the feelings, and he usually gives genius in some form when he is so well placed. You could have made a very good violinist, and even, if you didn't learn to play the violin I am sure you must be fond of all music. Whether or not you have developed your natural talents it is impossible for me to say. "I did study the violin-Tor a while, but it took so much time I finally gave it up, for I knew it would take years before I could, hope to be a proficient performer, and with my other studies I simply didn't have time to do it justice, but I do play the piano," said Miss Kenyon. Later I asked Mrs. Kenyon about her daughter's musical ability, and she told me that Doris composes for her own amusement; so you see Neptune so strongly placed has bestowed upon her the unusual artistic abilities it is in his power to give. All during this conversation with Mrs. Kenyon, Doris was in the other room changing her frock, for the photographer was there. I was most anxious to see how Miss Kenyon responded to exotic Neptune, so just casually I said, "I am sure Miss Kenyon would never have done this room in these dark colors. If she had decorated it herself she would have picked out lovely pastel shades, for Neptune delights in the lovely warm rose and the delicate pink of the inside of a deep sea shell, the beautiful mauve and lavender that blend into the fading yellow of the setting Sun, the iridescent pastel hues of the fiery opal. But whatever she picks will be delicate, nothing harsh, nothing that could offend. Before Mrs. Kenyon had time to answer, Doris came into the room. The most ravishing creature imaginable, in a chiffon frock, on the mauve shades, and all over the skirt were sewed glistening ornaments that made her look like the beautiful planet that so strongly affects her life. She was aesthetic, exotic, transparent Neptune brought to life, in the embodiment of a rapturous, smiling girl, but "with a smile so ethereal that one would have been afraid to touch her for fear she would go back to the Sea and take her rightful place as one of Neptune's daughters.