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Her Secret
of
UCCESS
By Alice joy
(^Norma Talmadge ouns the third largest pear-shaped diamond in the world, the gift of her husband. It is not strange that this marvelous jewel has had a distinct influence on Norma's life.
premiere that night would see Norma among the illustrious in the audience, and her jewels had just arrived from the safe'deposit vault whose dusky caverns must glow and scintillate as a pirate's cave of old with the gorgeous treasures confided to its keeping. And Nor' ma was looking at her particular favorite gem — the Norma Diamond. We knew, of course, about the diamond. It is the third largest pear-shaped diamond in the world, we are told, and it is the delight of the heart of Norma Talmadge. Its myriad facets almost explode with rainbow glints. It is large, but more, it is exquisite. It is a gem, and though centuries and centuries old, it should be called the Norma Diamond throughout all the centuries to come; for it is a living part of the life of perhaps the greatest film player that we have.
'Til tell you," said Norma, "why this stone has saved me from the silly* conceits it is so easy to feel. I look at this beautiful jewel and recognize in it Sincerity. How could I, playing a part in a film, want for a more beautiful o r convincing symbol than this shining bit of truth. It stimulates my imagination to other things. I like to think that perhaps the Kaffir boy who found this went that night to a picture show in Cape Colony to see me prance around in ^ In "Graustark," Horma Tal ve best?"
'Pohhy'. Perhans the diamnnrWut-t-pr in madge as Princess Yetive had I " 1 r xt i 1 i
Holland JfS £1 ,Wc m?nd CUtter ln an opportunity to give her As w^ left Norma, we realized that it Ho land after his day s work, went to a gorg/0Pus diJond % chance was her imagination which had made her picture show, and I was there to entertain at a film career. successful
him. Their work has been to help me So, now, all we have to do is to get a
can I do less than try as sincerely to give them my third or fourth largest diamond and we, too, will succeed.
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